Tag: Leadership
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Senator Durbin Visits Feinberg to Discuss Research Funding
Sen. Dick Durbin visited Feinberg to highlight importance of medical research and discussed a $2 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health in 2016.
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Patient-Centered Innovation
New neurosurgery chair, Maciej S. Lesniak, MD, MHCM, combats brain cancer with a multifaceted biological approach.
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New Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Announced
Kelly Michelson, MD, MPH, ’04 GME, has been named director of Feinberg’s newly formed Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities.
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New Book Helps Bring Patients’ Perspectives to Measurements of Health Care Performance
A new book co-authored by David Cella, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Medical Social Sciences, offers health care providers a way to integrate patients’ voices into measures of health care performance.
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New Era for Advancing Pediatric Research
Thomas Shanley, MD, takes on leadership roles at Feinberg and Lurie Children’s Hospital and shares his plans to increase collaboration between scientists, advance discoveries and make a bigger impact on the health of children.
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Bulun Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Serdar Bulun, MD, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will be a national resource and advisor on women’s health issues as a newly-elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine.
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Lurie Cancer Center Members Elected to Leadership of the American Society of Hematology
Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH and Jane Winter, MD, have been elected to the executive committee of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
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Bonow Named Founding Editor of JAMA Cardiology
Robert Bonow, MD, the Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, has been named editor-in-chief of JAMA Cardiology, a new journal in the JAMA Network that will debut in 2016.
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New Chair of Urology Named
Prostate cancer physician-scientist Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the departments of Urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Lesniak Named Chair of Neurological Surgery
Influential neurosurgical oncologist Maciej Lesniak, MD, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, effective November 1.
