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2011:

  • Summer 2011 Newsletter
  • Spring 2011 Newsletter
  • Thank you to 2010-2011 Chief Residents. The Department gratefully acknowledges the superior leadership and teamwork of Ben Singer, Lisa VanWagner, Jane Wilcox and Meg Fitzpatrick and wishes them the best of luck in fellowship.
  • The future of translational research in pulmonary medicine: an interview with James Kiley, PhD conducted by Benjamin Singer, MD
  • Congratulations to Kristen Kobaly who won a Women in Endocrinology Yound Investigator Award (a $500 prize) for the poster she'll be presenting at the ENDO society meeting in Boston in June.
  • Don't miss the Endoscopic Advances in Gastrointestinal Malignancies event!
  • Congratulations to Randy Orr, PGY2, one of the 2011 ATS Resident Trainee Travel Award (RTA) Winners.
  • Congratulations, 13 East! The Feinberg 13 East Medicine Unit won the 3rd place Patient Satisfaction Traveling Trophy for surveys returned in February. Props to all the residents and attendings from February, Ben Singer (Medical Director), Denise Anderson (Nurse Manager), Lisa McMahon (Care Facilitator), Mara Unterberger (Social Worker), and the entire 13 East staff! One of patient comments: "I am very impressed with level of care by all staff - thank you for making my stay comfortable and not scary at all.”
  • Northwestern received a full 5 year accreditation cycle - the longest that is offered - for all of our programs from the Internal Medicine Residency Review Committee of the ACGME. ... read more
  • NMH has been redesignated as a Magnet organization for another four years by the American Nurses Credentialing Center! This exciting news is a validation of our ongoing commitment to excellence. The hospital was praised for the organizational strengths of interdisciplinary collaboration, teamwork, transparency and quality as well as continuing focus on the Patients First mission.
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital wins Consumer Choice Award for 12th Consecutive Year ... read more.

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2010:

  • October 14, 2010: Farzad Moazed, Collen McEvoy and their team win the Excellence in Process Improvement Award.
  • October 03, 2010: Annual golf outing for residents, friends and families.
  • October 01, 2010: Residents and co-workers said goodbye to Gina Hollis who has been a housestaff specialist at Northwestern for six years. Good luck, Gina!
  • September 23, 2010: Zankhana Raval, MD, presented her poster at 2010 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Meeting. Her mentors are Drs. Tom Holly and Edwin Wu.
  • July 06, 2010: "Right ventricle dimensions significantly predicted mortality in patients with mitral regurgitation who underwent valve surgery, next to only New York Heart Association class in magnitude of impact, according to Venkatesh Y. Anjan, MD, of Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues." ...read more
  • June 20, 2010: The incoming intern class witnessed Cubs beat Angels 12:1. Go Cubbies! 
  • June 18, 2010: Each year approximately 50 Young Investigator Awards are presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology. This year, 2 recepients were recent graduates of Northwestern's program! Congratulations to: Neeta Venepalli (Vanderbilt) and Taylor Ortiz (Dana Farber Cancer Center).

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2009:

  • December 3, 2009: NMH named one of the nation's top hospitals by the Leapfrog group recognizing quality and efficiency. Read more at
  • http://www.leapfroggroup.org/news/leapfrog_news/4768932.
  • November 13, 2009: U.S. News & World Report ranks Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute’s Heart and Heart Surgery program among the nation’s best and as the highest-rated program in Illinois. The mortality rate and 30-day stroke incidence were 0% for both carotid artery endarterectomy and stenting at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in 2008.
  • October 12, 2009: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Wins Consumer Choice Award for the 11th Consecutive Year
  • http://www.nmh.org/nm/nrc+consumer+choice+11th+year
  • September 2, 2009: Patients with the same disease as Senator Edward Kennedy last week are one focus of the new Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute in Chicago. The institute on Northwestern University's downtown medical campus was jointly formed by Northwestern's medical school, its cancer center and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
  • August 5, 2009: Northwestern Memorial Hospital is highlighted as having the highest Overall Patient Rating of any Chicago hospital, and patient satisfaction scores are significantly above the national average.
  • July 16, 2009: Northwestern Memorial Hospital is ranked in 11 of 16 specialties in US News & World Report's Best Hospitals issue.

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