News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Medical Social Sciences. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our faculty’s latest achievements, awards and honors.
11.29.2019
10.22.2019Building on years of research and collaborations promoting optimal health and well-being among seniors, Feinberg has launched the Center for Applied Health Research on Aging. 
10.21.2019David Cella, PhD, Susan Quaggin, MD, John Rogers, PhD, and Catherine Wolley, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field. 
10.11.2019This article was originally published in the Breakthroughs Newsletter. Find more stories like this, as well as the Breakthroughs Podcast, on the Breakthroughs homepage Cardiovascular health isn’t just about the heart, or about the thousands of veins, arteries, and capillaries that provide oxygen and other nutrients to every corner of the body. According to Clyde Yancy, MD, [...] 
10.09.2019Joel Voss, PhD, and John Disterhoft, PhD, have received a $6.3 million grant from the NIH as part of the BRAIN Initiative. 
10.01.2019Feinberg faculty and students celebrated the ninth annual Medical Education Day at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center with sessions, lectures and workshops that examined the future of medical education. 
CCH awards Elizabeth Hahn and team a seed grant09.24.2019A community-academic research partnership between Judy Guitelman (ALAS-WINGS) and Elizabeth Hahn (Northwestern University) resulted in the development of an innovative project focused on health literacy and self-reported health outcomes in Spanish-speaking Latina breast cancer survivors and their caregivers. The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) announced the recipients of $150,000 in seed grant funds aimed at supporting Chicagoland community-engaged partnerships and research projects.
08.14.2019Launched in August 2019, more than 75 policymakers, implementers, and researchers came together to map the gaps in global knowledge and prioritize key questions in new BMJ Global Health special issue. This initiative was spearheaded by MSS faculty member Dr. Lisa Hirschhorn who noted, “A research consortium led by policymakers, researchers, and implementers has the ability to ensure that the generated research is actionable and accelerates the cross-country learning needed to more efficiently and effectively address the primary health care gaps which threaten the global progress in achieving effective Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.”
07.24.2019Two Northwestern Medicine investigators were among five Northwestern University faculty recently awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. 
07.18.2019An app developed by Drs. Craig Garfield and Young Lee was highlighted in the Chicago Tribune. Called SMART NICU2HOME, the app allows parents of NICU babies to receive constant updates on their child.
06.26.2019Restricting physicians’ ability to view multiple patient records at the same time did not reduce wrong-patient orders, according to a large clinical trial published in JAMA. 
06.12.2019Craig F. Garfield, MD, professor of Pediatrics and Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, attending physician at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and one of the authors of the AAP guidelines on fathers, emphasizes the persisting lack of focus on fathers when it comes to pediatric care. 
04.18.2019Stimulating one part of the brain’s memory center with electromagnetic pulses improved the memory of older adults with age-related memory loss, according to a recent study. 
Dr Lisa Hirschhorn to present on using Implementation Research in Global Health to accelerate change03.05.2019Speaking at the IPHAM Seminar/Webinar Series on March 14 2019, Dr Hirschhorn will be reflecting on the 'Quality Gap' and the remarkable work done in Rwanda to decrease child mortality. The talk will be held at Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Baldwin Auditorium at 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL. The talk and question session will run from 12-1pm.
02.19.2019Zeeshan Butt, PhD, replaced Elizabeth Hahn as the new director of the Lurie Cancer Center’s Outcomes Measurement and Survey Core (OMSC). 
02.12.2019The “Mothers and Babies” program was featured in a NYT article on preventive measures for depression during and after pregnancy. Dr. Shiv Darius Tandon is the Principal Investigator. 
01.31.2019Betina Yanez, PhD, received the New Investigator Award 2019 from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. 
01.10.2019Northwestern was recently awarded a five-year, $13.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a platform of app-based tools, called the MobileToolbox, to remotely assess cognitive function. 
12.17.2018A new study aims to answer a resilience puzzle: Why second-hand experiences of neighborhood violence affect some youth, but not others. 
12.06.2018Northwestern scientists specializing in HIV and AIDS gathered to share their experiences during a panel held December 3, to commemorate World AIDS Day.