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.
- 03.12.2024
Women in the healthcare field and their allies convened in the Feinberg Pavilion at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to celebrate women’s empowerment and success during the sixth annual Women in Medicine Conference on March 8.
- 03.08.2024
Scientists from Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania have — for the first time — studied community health worker programs on a national scale to assess what barriers these programs might face when implemented broadly.
- 03.08.2024
The Uplift the Web Challenge, a groundbreaking initiative of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health in the Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine aimed at identifying effective online interventions for depression, is now open for submissions until May 1, 2024.
- 03.08.2024
We are pleased to welcome Shahin Davoudpour, PhD, MA, MA as Research Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences in the Division of Outcome and Measurement Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
- 03.08.2024
Our faculty comprise 11 of the top 100 of federally funded researchers in public health.
- 03.03.2024Northwestern University clinical psychologist and scientist Kelli Scott, PhD is re-envisioning care at opioid treatment programs (OTPs) to help patients receive more personalized treatment based on measuring their progress, which will hopefully lead to better health outcomes and keep them in recovery longer.
- 02.16.2024
Even mild and moderate side effects can contribute to patients with cancer discontinuing their treatment, according to an analysis recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
- 02.16.2024
Northwestern University Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor and Chair of Medical Social Sciences Rinad Beidas, PhD, has been appointed to two new national advisory committees in behavioral health.
- 02.08.2024
Lauren Wakschlag, PhD, professor of Medical Social Sciences, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been awarded the Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine by the Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization.
- 01.22.2024Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine has launched a groundbreaking educational initiative, "Community Engagement: A Short Course to Optimize Research Endeavors."
- 01.12.2024
Two faculty members in the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Dan Mroczek, PhD, Chief of Determinants of Health and Eileen Graham, PhD, Associate Professor, were elected to The Association for Research in Personality (ARP).
- 01.11.2024
A recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry has identified previously unknown alterations in neural connectivity that promote psychomotor disturbance — a slowing or reduction in movement — in individuals with major depressive disorder.
- 01.11.2024
Welcome to new MSS faculty member Juan Pablo Zapata, PhD
- 12.21.2023
Welcome to Assistant Professor and Team Scientist Lexie Tabachnick PhD.
- 12.15.2023
We are delighted to welcome our newest faculty member Ida Salusky, PhD, MPH.
- 12.15.2023
We are pleased to announce that Callie Walsh-Bailey, MPH, PhD, has been appointed Assistant Professor, effective January 1st, 2024, in the Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) Division of Implementation Science at Northwestern University (NU) Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM).
- 11.27.2023
Twelve Feinberg faculty members were named to the 2023 “Highly Cited Researchers” list, published by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list identifies investigators who have demonstrated significant influence in their field through the publication of highly cited publications during the last decade.
- 10.27.2023
Northwestern University has been awarded a $24 million grant to standardize measurement tools used to evaluate childhood health nationwide as part of the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.
- 10.13.2023
Transgender women and Black gay and bisexual men in Chicago are nearly twice as likely to contract syphilis at some point in their lives as white gay men, according to a new study.
- 10.10.2023
Combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor with standard chemotherapy improved quality of life for patients with advanced stomach cancer or esophageal cancer compared to chemotherapy alone, according to recent findings published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology.
- 09.29.2023
We are delighted to announce that Courtney K. Blackwell, PhD, has been appointed Associate Professor, effective September 1st, 2023, in the Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) Division of Outcome and Measurement Science at Northwestern University (NU) Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM).
- 09.25.2023
Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new mechanisms by which iron deficiency inhibits cell growth and proliferation in eukaryotic cells, findings that could improve the understanding of cancer growth and the development of targeted cancer therapies.
- 09.15.2023
Feinberg investigators, students, trainees and faculty celebrated discovery and presented scientific research at Feinberg’s 17th annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day on Sept. 14.
- 09.05.2023
David Cella, PhD, professor of Medical Social Sciences, has been named the winner of the 2023 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
- 09.01.2023
Electronic health record-based messages delivered solely to clinicians increased referral to tobacco use treatment for cancer patients who smoke, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
- 08.01.2023
This year’s recipients were Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, professor of Medical Social Sciences, and Daniela Ladner, MD, MPH, the John Benjamin Murphy Professor and vice chair of research and innovation in the Department of Surgery.
- 07.13.2023
The Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) is thrilled to announce and celebrate the recent promotions of our faculty members effective September 1, 2023.
- 07.11.2023
Jessica Lee Schleider, PhD, will join the faculty in the Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) as an associate professor
- 06.16.2023
Fathers can make a significant difference in whether an infant is breastfed and placed to sleep safely, according to a recent survey of new fathers.