Dane Chetkovich, MD, PhD, and Brian Mustanski, PhD, are the latest of many faculty members who are members of National Institutes of Health (NIH) study sections, through which they peer review NIH research grant applications.
Mary McDermott, MD, ’92 GME, and Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, were each awarded funding of more than $1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, MD, professor emeritus in Pathology and former head of laboratories at Children’s Memorial Hospital, is the first American to receive the Merck Literary Award in the essay category for his book “Carrying the Heart. Exploring the Worlds Within Us.”
Third-year medical student Adina Goldberger will use her Schweitzer Fellowship to develop and implement a discussion-based preventative health program for women currently incarcerated in the Cook County Jail.
Kimberly Golden, MD, a third-year pathology resident, was presented with the 2014 Marco Ellis Legacy Award for her extraordinary contributions to the McGaw Diversity Council.
With 29 researchers on the list – six of them scientists from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine – Northwestern ranks 14th among institutions with the highest number of highly cited researchers.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has joined a research network funded by the American Heart Association to promote cardiovascular health and prevent death from heart disease and strokes.
Brigid Dolan, MD, and Bernice Ruo, MD, both assistant professors in General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, received the 2014 Augusta Webster Fellowship.
Clyde Yancy, MD, received the American Heart Association’s 2014 Gold Heart Award, and Neil J. Stone, ’68 MD, ’74, ’75 GME, received the AHA’s 2014 Physician of the Year Award.
Peter Dorschner, a third-year medical student, was awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha 2014 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship to investigate hospital-acquired infections in transplant patients.