Tag: Faculty
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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Mourns the Passing of Joanne C. Smith, MD, President & CEO
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), today announced that AbilityLab’s president and CEO, Joanne C. Smith, MD, has died following treatment for cancer.
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Prominent Immunologist Named Chief of Allergy and Immunology
Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, of Yale University, has been named chief of Feinberg’s Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine, and director of the newly formed Center for Human Immunobiology.
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Award Funds International Vascular Malformation Research
An international collaboration for which Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, chair of Cell and Developmental Biology, serves as North American coordinator, has received a five-year, $7 million Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program award from the Leducq Foundation.
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Eminent Physician-Scientist Sachin Patel Named Chair of Psychiatry
Sachin Patel, MD, PhD, has been named chair and Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and psychiatrist-in-chief at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Norman and Ida Stone Institute of Psychiatry.
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Lloyd-Jones Named President of American Heart Association
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, the Eileen M. Foell Professor and chair of Preventive Medicine, is the newly elected president of the American Heart Association.
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Inaugural ‘AI Bowl’ Aims to Address Health Disparities
Feinberg is hosting the first annual Big Ten Augmented Intelligence Bowl, bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of investigators from institutions representing the Big Ten Academic Alliance to use AI to address health disparities.
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Prindle Honored with Army Research Office Early Career Award
Arthur Prindle, PhD, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has been honored with the Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the U.S. Army Research Office.
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Holmes Named to National Library of Medicine Board of Regents
Kristi Holmes, PhD, director of the Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center, has been appointed to the Board of Regents for the National Library of Medicine, the first time a Northwestern faculty member has joined the prestigious NLM Board.
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Zee Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from National Sleep Foundation
Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD, GME ’87, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Sleep Foundation for her contributions to sleep medicine and the public health mission of the foundation.
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Northwestern Accepting Nominations for $200,000 Nemmers Prize in Medical Science
Northwestern University is accepting nominations for its $200,000 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science, a biennial prize that will be awarded in Fall 2022.
