
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.

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.

Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH and Jane Winter, MD, have been elected to the executive committee of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

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.

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.

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.

John A. Rogers, PhD, a materials scientist and pioneer in the field of bio-integrated electronic devices, will join Northwestern University with appointments in the McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine.

After nearly 15 years of leadership, M. Christine Stock, ’81 MD, James E. Eckenhoff Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, has stepped down as chair of the department.

After 25 years on Feinberg’s faculty, Jeffrey Goldberger, MD, professor in Medicine-Cardiology, will become chief of cardiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

As the first medical director of Feinberg’s Office of Continuing Medical Education, Clara Schroedl, MD, plans to expand and improve current education offerings through innovation and technology.