The American Medical Women’s Association student chapter at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Women’s Faculty Organization co-hosted an afternoon tea, a networking event for students to connect with female faculty members.
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A September visit by the dean of health sciences at the Universidad San Sebastian in Concepcion, Chile, finalized a formal agreement that will result in the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences participating in a student exchange program.
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.
While an intern at the Chicago Department of Public Health, fourth-year medical student Azmina Lakhani helped launch the PlayStreets program, which closes city streets in six communities to provide a safe, supervised space with organized outdoor activities for children.
Elizabeth Patton, MD, fourth-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology, and Carley Riley, MD’04, WCAS’98, have received 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars fellowships. Through the program they will conduct innovative research and work with communities, organizations, practitioners, and policy-makers in an effort to improve health and healthcare in the U.S.
Andrew Alvarez, a first-year student, participated in clinical research in plastic surgery over the summer.
Longtime faculty member Nicholas Cianciotto, professor of microbiology-immunology, has been named director of the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Training Program in the Life Sciences.
Anna Whelan, a first-year medical student, was running along Lake Michigan on Aug. 21 when she noticed two people kneeling over a man lying on the ground. The man had no pulse, and Whelan performed CPR and coached others on how to help, applying what she learned during her first weeks in medical school.
Many Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students choose to enhance their MD education by simultaneously working toward a master’s degree that concentrates on the legal, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of medicine.