Tag: Awards
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Medical Honor Society Welcomes Inductees
Medical students, residents, faculty members and alumni were welcomed into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society yesterday.
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MD/PhD Student Receives Northwestern’s Presidential Fellowship
Lauren Smith, a sixth-year MD/PhD student, is the recipient of a Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students at Northwestern. Her research focuses on improving the control of myoelectric upper limb prostheses. She works in the labs of Todd Kuiken, MD, PhD, and Levi Hargrove, PhD.
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Residency Program at Northwestern Regarded as One of Nation’s Best
Among the more than 300 Internal Medicine residency programs to receive physician nominations, the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University collected the 10th most.
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Goldman Honored for Scientific Achievement
Robert D. Goldman, PhD, Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology and chair of Cell and Molecular Biology, was honored by Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, for his work in the area of molecular architecture of the cell’s nucleus.
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Parkinson’s Research Center Funding Renewed
With its recent renewal, Feinberg’s Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research is one of 10 such centers funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Schweitzer Fellow Aims to Increase Health Literacy
In her last year of residency, Jill Huded, MD, created new educational handouts for CommunityHealth, a free clinic in Chicago, to increase health literacy in an underserved population. Her project was funded by a Schweitzer fellowship.
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Endowed Professors Honored at Annual Meeting of the Minds
The third-annual luncheon celebrating Feinberg’s named professors serves as a way to thank and honor these faculty members for their accomplishments and contributions to science, education and research.
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Faculty Receive Searle Teaching Fellowships
Five Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members were accepted into the 2013-14 Searle Fellows Program, a year-long faculty development program.
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Heiman Recognized for Her Contributions to Clinical Education
Heather Heiman, MD, received the Clinician Educator Award at the annual meeting of the Midwest Regional Society of General Internal Medicine. She assisted in the curriculum renewal, served as a college mentor, and tutored students.
