Northwestern Medicine welcomed more than 150 first-year residents during the week of June 20, with many attending “bootcamp” training sessions.
Deborah Clements, MD, chair of Family and Community Medicine, has been appointed as a member of the National Resident Matching Program’s board of directors.
Joseph Graves, ’16 GME, former co-chief resident in Radiology, received the John Franklin Commitment to Diversity award for his leadership in diversity efforts at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.
Nicholas Volpe, MD, chair of Ophthalmology and George and Edwina Tarry Professor of Ophthalmology, was recently accepted into the American Ophthalmological Society.
Roopal Kundu, ’01 MD, ’02 GME, associate professor in Dermatology and Medical Education, has been named associate dean for admissions, effective September 1.
Herbert Meltzer, MD, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pharmacology and Physiology, has been chosen to receive a Pioneer in Psychopharmacology Award from the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Fourth-year medical students going into orthopaedic surgery completed a four-session surgical skills course to prepare them for residency.
Rising second-year medical students honored those who donated their bodies for anatomical study with prose and music at the anatomy class exit ceremony.
Navdeep Chandel, PhD, David W. Cugell Professor of Medicine, has received the National Cancer Institute’s Outstanding Investigator Award to explore how mitochondrial metabolism plays a role in cancer.
Members of the Class of 2016, faculty, friends and family celebrated Feinberg’s commencement at Chicago’s Navy Pier Grand Ballroom on May 23.