Features

  • Reaching Further

    Reaching Further

    Northwestern’s African American Transplant Access Program is impacting lives in Chicago’s most underserved communities.

  • Future Ready

    Future Ready

    Northwestern’s new Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution is laying the groundwork to prevent future pandemics.

  • For Every Man

    For Every Man

    Northwestern investigators make critical impact on prostate cancer research and care.

  • Stopping a Silent Killer

    Stopping a Silent Killer

    Northwestern’s unprecedented outpatient lung cancer surgery makes it safer and easier than ever for patients with early-stage disease to return to their lives — in just a few hours.

  • Passion for Equity

    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.

Alumni News

  • Open Minded

    Open Minded

    David Rhew, ’92 MD, has spent his career exploring the intersection of medicine, technology, and innovation.

  • Overcoming the Pebbles

    Overcoming the Pebbles

    “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” These words by Muhammad Ali have resonated with me throughout my career. For me, they express the importance of defining what the goal or “mountain” is and, equally important, identifying the “pebble,” or reason why we don’t achieve…

  • A Career in Neurology

    A Career in Neurology

    An interview with Sandra Olson ’63 MD, ’69 GME

  • Donors Support Their Passions

    Donors Support Their Passions

    Generous donors contribute to the medical school in a wide variety of areas that are important to them personally.

  • In Memoriam

    In Memoriam

    Northwestern Medicine expresses its condolences to the families and friends of the following alumni (listed in order of their graduation year) and faculty who have passed away. ALUMNI Donald L. Custis, ’43 MD, Savannah, Georgia, March 18, 2021 Frances Friend Coburn, ’47 MS, ’50 PhD, Lafayette, California, April 1, 2021 Richard A. Davis, ’51 MD,…

  • Progress Notes

    Progress Notes

    Summer 2021 1950s Gerson Bernhard, ’53 MD, ’59 GME, has become used to video medicine precepting rheumatology fellows at University of California San Francisco and consulting with primary care physicians in Medicaid and free clinics through the MAVEN Project during the pandemic. Bernhard remarks, “While this is mutually useful, it is not the same as…

Campus News

  • The Future Is Bright

    The Future Is Bright

    For the first time, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is ranked 15th in the nation among research-oriented medical schools, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

  • Student Volunteers Administer Vaccines

    Student Volunteers Administer Vaccines

    Feinberg offered students the opportunity to volunteer in Northwestern Medicine’s COVID-19 vaccination effort, helping  to administer vaccines to patients at Northwestern Medicine healthcare sites across Chicago.

  • Honoring the Class of 2021

    Honoring the Class of 2021

    Feinberg honored the MD Class of 2021 during the medical school’s 162nd commencement ceremony, held virtually on May 24. Feinberg’s 162nd commencement ceremony was held virtually on May 24 to accommodate public health measures in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eric G. Neilson, MD, vice president for Medical Affairs and the Lewis Landsberg Dean, introduced the…

  • Faculty Awards & Honors

    Faculty Awards & Honors

    Learn about the recent achievements of Feinberg School of Medicine faculty and leaders.