Tag: Faculty
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Quaggin Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Susan Quaggin, MD, the Charles H. Mayo, MD, Professor and chief of Nephrology and Hypertension in the Department of Medicine, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
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Cella to Step Down as Chair of Medical Social Sciences
David Cella, PhD, the Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor, has announced that he will be stepping down as chair of the Department of Medical Social Sciences, the department he helped establish in 2009.
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Northwestern Receives Grant to Support Equity in Biomedicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has been awarded a $550,000 grant to support the retention of early-career clinician investigators experiencing family caregiving challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Northwestern Medicine Investigators Receive $14 Million Grant to Study Viral Pneumonia
An interdisciplinary team of Northwestern Medicine investigators led by Karen Ridge, PhD, has been awarded a $14 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study the mechanisms that promote lung tissue repair in patients with severe viral pneumonia.
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Les Turner ALS Symposium Celebrates Advances in Research and Patient Care
Northwestern scientists and clinicians demonstrated their continued commitment to advancing knowledge and therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis during the 11th annual Les Turner Symposium on ALS.
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Cultivating Africa’s Research Enterprise
Through the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, Feinberg faculty across disciplines are training investigators from Africa, many of whom are enrolled in Feinberg graduate programs, on how to effectively conduct research about diseases currently impacting their home countries.
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Lloyd-Jones Testifies in Support of Cardiovascular Health Legislation
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, chair of Preventive Medicine and the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Heart Research, and current president of the American Heart Association, recently testified before Congress in support of legislation that would improve cardiovascular health in the U.S.
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Three Feinberg Faculty Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD; Melissa Simon, MD, MPH; and Guillermo Ameer, ScD; have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Clements Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from IAFP
Deborah Smith Clements, MD, received the Illinois Academy of Family Physician’s Distinguished Service Award.
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Passion for Equity
New assistant dean for medical education Linda Suleiman, MD, weaves health equity into her curriculum goals and her own career as an orthopaedic surgeon.
