Tag: Education
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Yancy and Stone Honored With American Heart Association Awards
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.
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Physical Therapy Students Transition to Clinical Internships
First-year Doctor of Physical Therapy students celebrated the 8th Annual Clinical Practice Ceremony on June 20, receiving patches for their white coats as they start their full-time clinical internships.
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Creating New Measurements for Spinal Cord Trauma
Mark Hoggarth, a DPT/PhD student, created a new screening measure that has the potential to decipher if a patient has whiplash and the severity of the trauma.
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Enzymes Shown to Protect Mitochondrial DNA from Stress
David Kamp, MD, completed his residency and fellowship at Northwestern, where he now studies a range of lung disorders as well as cellular apoptosis, a process of programmed cell death.
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Exploring the Structural Basis of Kainate Receptors
Theanne Griffith, a fourth year graduate student in the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD Program, studies the role of kainate receptors in neurons. Last year she was awarded a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association.
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PA Class of 2016 Receives White Coats
The incoming Class of 2016 received their white coats during a ceremony that marks the beginning of their journey as physician assistant students.
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Dorschner Awarded AOA Research Fellowship
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.
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Training Designed at Feinberg Rolled Out at VA Medical Centers
The simulation curriculum is being implemented at half of the nation’s Veterans Affairs facilities in an effort to further reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections and mechanical complications such as pneumothorax and arterial puncture.
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Bequest to Help Support Tuition-Free Medical School at Northwestern
A transformational gift from Dr. Earl and Mrs. Lovie Beard will endow the Earl and Lovie Beard Scholarship Fund at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The bequest commitment will directly support Feinberg’s goal to create a tuition-free medical school.
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Alumnus Connects Anesthesiology and Art
Naveen Nathan, MD ’03, GME ’07, assistant professor in Anesthesiology, has carved a career path encompassing art, anesthesiology and education.
