We are excited to announce that
@SusanQuaggin
, MD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Medicine. She will be the first woman to serve as
@NorthwesternU
's chair of Medicine.
Feinberg has been selected as the home of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (
@jclinicalinvest
) for its next five-year term, and Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, will serve as the journal’s next editor-in-chief.
Rinad S. Beidas, PhD, (
@Rsbeidas
) has been named chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences, effective Sept 1. Beidas comes from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine (
@PennMedicine
).
Sara Becker, PhD, (
@sjbeckerphd
) will join Feinberg as the inaugural director of the new Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science, part of
@nu_ipham
.
Linda Suleiman, MD, (
@LindaSuleimanMD
) and Quentin Youmans, MD, (
@QuentinYoumans
) have been included in the National Minority Quality Forum’s (
@NMQF
) “40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health” list.
Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, (
@StephanieEisen
), associate chair of research in
@Yale_LabMed
, has been named Feinberg's chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology and director of the newly formed Center for Human Immunobiology.
Sachin Patel MD, PhD, (
@SachinPatelLab
) has been named chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services at Feinberg, and psychiatrist-in-chief at
@NorthwesternMed
Norman and Ida Stone Institute of Psychiatry.
Northwestern scientists have transformed a lab for
#coronavirustesting
, putting a special team in place to at least quadruple the number of
#covid19
tests processed at
@NorthwesternMed
hospitals and to greatly reduce test result turnaround times.
We have canceled classes for medical students tomorrow. Our
#meded
deans will be working on action plans for anti-racism education programs. We encourage members of our community to take this day to reflect and lay down plans for change:
#ShutDownSTEM
Feinberg has been recognized as one of the best medical schools in the nation, ranking 13th among research-oriented medical schools by
@usnews
.
Congratulations to everyone who helped make this achievement possible!
We’re excited to announce that
@NIH_CommonFund
has awarded Northwestern a $16 million grant to hire new faculty and deploy strategies to ensure the success of faculty members from historically underrepresented populations.
Next week we will celebrate the opening of the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center, the largest building solely dedicated to
#biomedical
research at an American medical school.
@LurieChildrens
@NorthwesternU
#SQBRC
Linda Teplin, PhD, has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the CDC to study gun violence—the first time in more than 20 years that federal funding has been appropriated for research related to firearm violence prevention at the CDC.
#GunViolence
A big
#thankyou
to the Northwestern faculty, staff and trainees hard at work serving the community today in these frigid temperatures. We are incredibly thankful for your sacrifices and what you do for patients, students and the Northwestern community every day.
@NorthwesternMed
Congratulations to our M4s! Today marks the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. We’re extremely proud of our students!
#NUMatch
#Match2023
Women comprise 52% of our MD entering class and 50% of incoming medical residents, number 1,043 among regular
#medicalschool
faculty and garnered $170.4 million in sponsored awards in 2019. Learn more:
#WomenInMedicine
#WomxnAtNU
#WomenInSTEM
Mary McBride, MD, MEd, (
@McBride_MaryE
) has been named director of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (
@NU_FAME
), effective November 1:
@NU_MedEd
Leonidas Platanias, MD, (
@LeonidasPlatan1
) will join the Northwestern Office for Research (
@ResearchNU
) as an associate vice president, focusing on cancer programs.
Today,
@GovRauner
signed a pioneering bill, requiring insurance to cover
#fertility
preservation for
#cancer
patients. "We want to make sure that every person who would like to be a parent at some point in their life has that opportunity," he said.
It's with great pleasure and pride that we congratulate our students on completing their academic journey.
Here's to your hard work and your next chapter!
A team of Northwestern scientists have come together from across disciplines to develop an at-home
#COVID19
antibody test to determine prior exposure to the virus. Hear more from
@emmcnally
on this breakthrough:
#CovidTesting
Feinberg celebrated
#MLK
’s legacy with an address from
@CharlesMBlow
, who spoke on King’s lasting impact but highlighted areas where there’s still work to be done:
Diane Wayne, MD, (
@dianebwayne
) has been recognized with a Career Achievement Award for Medical Education by the Society of General Internal Medicine (
@SocietyGIM
).
Meet the new chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Sachin Patel, MD, PhD! Learn more about the unique blend of clinical psychiatry practice and neuroscience research
@SachinPatelLab
brings to Feinberg.
In recognition of their track record of distinction and accomplishment, three Feinberg faculty members have been promoted to assistant deans of
#medicaleducation
: Khalilah Gates, MD, Ike Okwuosa, MD, and
@LindaSuleimanMD
.
Today we celebrate the opening of the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center. Come back this afternoon for live coverage of the ribbon cutting program and take a look inside this new home for biomedical research.
#sqbrc
We are incredibly proud of Precious Akanyirige, a fourth-year MD/MPH degree student, for being honored with the 2023 Excellence in Public Health Award!
Feinberg principal investigators secured a record-breaking $643 million in research funding and awards this year, a 20 percent increase over the previous year.
We are happy to announce Feinberg has established the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience.
This new center will be a collaborative hub to unite scientists to understand
#NeuralMechanisms
and develop novel therapeutic modalities for mental illness.
.
@AAOS1
has awarded its 2020 Diversity Award to James Hill, MD, professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, for his commitment to making
#orthopedics
more representative of, and accessible to, diverse patient populations.
The Society of General Internal Medicine (
@SocietyGIM
) has recognized Diane Wayne, MD, (
@dianebwayne
) and Mary McDermott, MD, for their lifetime contributions to medical education and research.
#CoronaVirusUpdate
: A new potential drug target has been identified in the virus that causes
#COVID19
by
@NorthwesternMed
scientists who say multiple drugs will likely be needed to respond to the pandemic.
Racism is a public health crisis that has no place in our school, clinical practice or profession. We can do better. We plan to have a draft plan for combating racism and bias available by early fall. These are our initial commitments and action items.
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, an internationally recognized vascular biologist, has been named chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, effective October 1. Read more about Iruela-Arispe:
New leadership in medical education: Diane Wayne, MD, is stepping down from her role as vice dean of education and will be succeeded by Marianne Green, MD. New associate deans have also been named.
🎧 Founding Director of
@NorthwesternMed
's African American Transplant Access Program Dinee Simpson, MD, (
@DineeMD
) discusses the barriers to organ transplant for Black patients and how she is working to bring down those barriers:
The
@LurieCancer
Center has received a renewed five-year $10.8 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant from
@theNCI
to advance translational research and improve outcomes for patients with brain cancer.
A new
@NorthwesternMed
study finds that female surgical residents report working more hours, having poorer overall well-being and experiencing aspects of burnout more frequently, compared to their male peers:
.
@NorthwesternU
has received a five-year, $46 million grant from the
@NIH
to renew the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute.
#medicalresearch
Northwestern investigators secured record-breaking research funding and awards in 2019. Experience our Chicago campus, a destination for scientific discovery.
Linda Suleiman, MD, (
@LindaSuleimanMD
) has been weaving health equity into her career as an orthopaedic surgeon and now into her curriculum goals as assistant dean for medical education.
Khalilah Gates, MD, and Michelle Prickett, MD, (
@MPrickettMD
) discuss how their friendship in the ICU has become a lifeline during the pandemic. Reply with a Northwestern lifeline you're grateful for today.
#COVID19
#HealthcareHeroes
Feinberg students will be distributing more than 30,000 masks to health care workers around the Chicago area which were donated by companies.
#GetMePPE
@GetMePPEchi
#PPEshortage
An experience of a lifetime! Wonderful to work with the hardest working athletes of our time and also the best medical staff in sports!
#TeamBehindtheTeam
#WorldChamps
Please join us in congratulating Sam Weinberg, MD, PhD, for winning the
@BWFUND
Career Award for Medical Scientists, a prestigious award given to early-career physician-scientists.
Congratulations to the 42 students, housestaff, and faculty recently inducted into the Feinberg chapter of
@AOA_society
. This society recognizes outstanding educational achievements and medical contributions.
Four
@NorthwesternMed
hospitals have been recognized by
@usnews
in its Best Hospitals list, including Northwestern Memorial Hospital, ranked again among the top 10 hospitals in the country and No. 1 in Chicago and Illinois.
The white coat is a symbol. 🥼 Some of our new
#medicalstudents
share what it means to them as they start their journeys to become
#physicians
. What does the
#whitecoat
mean to you?
Northwestern Medicine scientists have engineered a novel antibody that revitalizes immune cell activity in the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, according to a
@PNASNews
study.
#Glioblastoma
Congratulations to our partner
@LurieCancer
on receiving the highest rating possible from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), an overall “exceptional,” on the competitive renewal of its Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG). Read more:
Announcing the new Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), which will unify programs in
#artificialintelligence
in medicine, genetic analysis, deep phenotyping, ethics and
#datascience
.
We are excited to feature
@StephanieEisen
, on the latest episode of our
#BreakthroughsPodcast
.
Listen to her talk about her how she is uniting scientists and harnessing the power of the immune system with
@immunology_nu
.
🔗
Our most recent episode of
#BreakthroughsPodcast
features
@TaliaLerner
discussing
#dopamine
and how it plays a role in addiction and other disorders.
Listen to her discuss how dopamine neurons are working in the brain and how they impact habits.
🔗
Jane Winter, MD, has been awarded the Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine by
@NU_WFO
, in honor of her leadership, research and mentorship.
#WomenInMedicineMonth