Tag: Education
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2013: The Year in Review
The past year provided an outstanding time of growth and success at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The following stories highlight some of the best moments from 2013.
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Neonatologist honors the past, provides for the future
Dr. Roger E. Sheldon, MD ’68, and his wife, Carol V. Sheldon, MD, have provided an endowment to the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine for the McNicol Flair Sheldon Scholarship.
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Advocating for Patients One News Segment at a Time
Shirley Chi, MD ’01, GME ’02, board-certified dermatologist and dermatologic surgeon, has become an on-air advocate for patients.
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Quality is Job One – New health system focuses on providing better care
New health system focuses on providing better care throughout all facilities.
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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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New Cardiovascular System App Engages Learners
First-year medical students used a first-of-its-kind iPad app, an interactive simulation-based textbook of cardiovascular physiology and hemodynamics, as part of their Cardiovascular Blood Module.
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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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Role of Nutrition Gains Importance in Medical Education
Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, professor in Preventive Medicine, discusses the role of nutrition in the education of medical students and in research at the medical school.
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Creating Algorithms for Partial Hand Prostheses
Adenike Adewuyi, a third-year MD/PhD student, uses computational models to improve control of artificial limbs of partial hand amputees.
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Studying the Herpes Virus Using Neuroscience, Virology and Developmental Biology
Osefame Ewaleifoh, a second-year PhD/MPH student, studies the herpes virus in the lab of Gregory Smith, PhD. He investigates the mechanism behind differential susceptibility to herpes simplex viral encephalitis in children and the source of energy for viral transport.
