Recent achievements of Feinberg School of Medicine faculty and leaders
Wayne N. Burton, MD, ’77 GMER, clinical associate professor in the division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2024 Oregon Health Sciences School of Medicine Alumni Association’s Esther Pohl Lovejoy Leadership Award. This award honors alumni of the medical school who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and service to the medical profession and contributed to systemic improvements in health outcomes.
Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD, ’87 GMER, ’89 GMEF, has been appointed as the new chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the American Brain Foundation. Zee is director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine Disorders, chief of Sleep Medicine in the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, and the Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor of Neurology.
Wendy A, Beattie, ’88 CPO, assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Titus Ferguson Lifetime Achievement Award. One of the highest awards in the orthotics and prosthetics field, the Titus Ferguson Lifetime Achievement Award is “bestowed upon an outstanding academician whose accomplishments and contributions have made a significant impact on the growth and development of the profession.” Beattie is the only woman to ever receive this award.
Brian Mustanski, PhD, director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing and Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), interim chief of Implementation Science in the Department of Medical Social Sciences, and professor of Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, and Infectious Diseases, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD. Mustanski was invited to join the committee by Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mustanski’s appointment begins immediately and extends through 2027.
Chad A. Mirkin, PhD, has been awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Mirkin is the first Northwestern University scientist to receive the prestigious award. Mirkin is recognized for his discovery of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), nanostructures comprised of a nanoparticle core and a shell of radially distributed DNA or RNA strands.
Yogesh Goyal, PhD, assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and assistant professor at Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, has been named a Pew-Stewart Scholar in Cancer Research.
Ann Kennedy, PhD, assistant professor of Neuroscience, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research is a national initiative designed to support promising early career scientists whose research will accelerate discovery and advance progress to a cure for cancer. The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health.
Alan Hauser, MD, PhD, vice chair of the Department of Microbiology-Immunology and professor of Microbiology-Immunology and Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been awarded the Mentor of the Year Award by Feinberg’s Medical Faculty Council. He will be recognized for his award at the 2024 Lewis Landsberg Research Day in September.
Scott Budinger, MD, chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Division of Medicine, the Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Airway Diseases, and professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Cell and Developmental Biology, has been awarded the Mentor of the Year Award by Feinberg’s Medical Faculty Council. He will be recognized for his award at the 2024 Lewis Landsberg Research Day in September.
Susan Quaggin, MD, the Irving S. Cutter Professor and chair of Medicine and director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute is the winner of the American Society of Nephrology’s 2024 John P. Peters Award. Named after one of the founders of the field of nephrology, this prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made substantial research contributions to the discipline of nephrology and have sustained achievements in one or more domains of academic medicine including clinical care, education, and leadership.
