Tag: modern

The Impact of Academic Societies

Q&A with Greg Brisson, MD, ’94 GME Ten years ago, a group of medical students approached FSM administration with a bold concept: Med students — already divided into four Colleges to provide them with a community that lasts throughout their education — could also benefit from networking with Colleges across the four years of medical…
Alumni President’s Message: Mentoring Current Students

A letter from Rishi Reddy, ’00 MD (HPME) Hello, Feinberg alumni! I hope everyone had a good summer. The Feinberg Class of 2023 has started classes, and your Medical Alumni Association Board has been busy continuing our different engagement and mentoring initiatives. Recently, we hosted the first “How to Interview for Residency/Medical School” events for…
Giving

Twelve Years of Global Impact Celebrating the New Institute for Global Health at Northwestern On September 25, more than 300 people came together to support Northwestern’s commitment to improving health worldwide during the 12th Annual Global Health Initiative (GHI) Benefit Dinner. The event, which followed the launch of the medical school’s new Institute for Global…
Progress Notes

Fall 2019 1940s Daniel Marshall, ’47 MD, was the 2018 recipient of the American College of Physicians’ Henry Gift Award. The award recognizes a Connecticut-based internist distinguished for a “lifetime of service to the care of patients and active participation in the local medical community.” Marshall retired in October 2018 after being in practice for…
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 recently passed away. All are in 2019 unless specified. ALUMNI Jean J. Austin, ’43 MD, of Marco Island, Fla., died Feb. 6 Homer S. Arnold, ’49 MD, of Austin, Texas,…
Progress Notes

Summer 2019 1960s Theodore C. Ning, Jr., ’68 MD, was honored by the University of Colorado Medicine Alumni Association at the 2019 Silver and Gold Alumni Banquet. Ning received the Humanitarian Award in recognition for lifelong service to society, extraordinary service to community, and leadership through global and local service. 1970s Richard F. Gillum, ’70…
Giving

Supporting the Next Generation of Physicians Medical student scholars and Feinberg leadership expressed their gratitude to generous alumni, faculty, and friends who support scholarships during the annual Commitment to Scholarships Luncheon held this spring at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago. “We remain eternally grateful as each year our scholarship donors continue to provide support while new…
Perspective: A Commitment to Global Health

Reminiscing with classmates during our recent 50-year reunion reignited the ideals that took hold during my formative years as an undergraduate student on Northwestern’s Evanston campus and stemmed all the way to my graduation as a doctor of medicine in 1969. Little did I realize on graduation day how much more I would still learn…
President’s Message: Engaging with the MAAB

A letter from Rishi Reddy, ’00 MD (HPME) Hello Feinberg alumni! We celebrated Alumni Weekend 2019 in Chicago with the class of 1969. I was proud to announce the members of that class who were present, including our alumni board’s own Gary Rusk, ’69 MD, who chairs the Philanthropy Committee. My goal over the next…
Change Agent

Lydia Pleotis Howell, MD, ’81, has been shepherding the field of cytopathology through shifting technologies and workforce trends for more than two decades. Back in 1995, Howell served as the principal investigator of an FDA validation trial of an Automated Cytologic Preparation Process and Interactive Screening System (AutoCyte). The system used early versions of artificial…