Tag: Awards

November 4, 2002 HHS Official to Give Feinberg Lecture CHICAGO— Eve E. Slater, MD, assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be the speaker at the eighth annual Frances Feinberg Memorial Lecture at Northwestern University at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 21, in the third floor conference center of…

November 4, 2002 Program Helps Hepatitis C Patients BOSTON— A new cognitive behavioral therapy strategy developed by Schering-Plough improves compliance among patients with hepatitis C (HCV) who are receiving the pegylated interferon-based combination therapy Peg-Intron® and Rebetol® (ribavirin), according to a Northwestern University study. Steven L. Flamm, MD, associate professor of medicine and of surgery…

In Memoriam (Jane Eckenhoff, Paul Lazar, Susan Orden) Jane Mackey Eckenhoff, who served as secretary of the Alumni Office at Northwestern’s medical school from 1970–84, died October 12 at home in LaPorte, Indiana, of lung cancer. She was 72. Raised in South Bend, Indiana, Jane Mackey came to Chicago in the late 1950s and worked…

October 28, 2002 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or at tlk@northwestern.edu   Culture Bus Serves Alzheimer’s Patients CHICAGO— A unique new program developed by the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University and the Council for Jewish Elderly enables persons with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease to participate in innovative activities involving…

Medical Students to Present Summer Research Results All members of the Northwestern community are invited to the Feinberg School’s annual Medical Student Research Day on Thursday, October 31. Medical students will present posters from their summer research projects. These hands-on research experiences provide students with a taste of what it would be like to conduct…

October 25, 2002 Northwestern Launches Gene Banking Project CHICAGO— The Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University has launched a major gene banking project that will use information from the human genome sequence to unravel the genetic cause of many diseases and eventually help scientists develop new tests, determine which patients will respond best to…

October 25, 2002 Smoking May Make Lymphoma More Lethal CHICAGO— A Northwestern University investigator has hypothesized that smoking may play a dual role in the development of a cancer of the lymph glands called follicular lymphoma, first causing it to develop and then transforming it into diffuse large cell lymphoma, an aggressive cancer generally associated…

October 14, 2002 Eldercare Organizations Receive Boost from Program CHICAGO— The Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University has launched a program to assist in building the research capacity of community-based organizations that serve and care for the elderly. The program, called ASSERT (Aging Services Support for Evaluation and Research Training), is funded by a…

Art in the Atrium Highlights School Talent Works by the Feinberg School’s faculty, staff, and students, as well as staff members of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, will be featured October 15–17 during the 11th Annual Art in the Atrium, sponsored by the school’s Staff Relations Committee. Held in the Method Atrium, 300 East Superior…