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Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, associate professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the Gene Stollerman Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, effective October 2025.

The use of an automated insulin delivery system in patients with type 2 diabetes resulted in a greater reduction in glucose levels compared to usual care plus continuous glucose monitoring, according to a recent clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Food insecurity in early childhood is associated with worse heart health two decades later, but participation in public nutrition assistance programs may significantly mitigate that risk, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.

Faculty, staff, students and trainees celebrated global health, education and outreach during the 6th annual Global Health Education Day organized by the Center for Global Health Education.

Measuring standard cardiac biomarkers did not predict whether patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis would benefit from nonsurgical aortic valve replacement, according to a recent study published in Circulation.

Six Feinberg faculty members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP), two of the oldest medical honor societies in the U.S.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how disruptions in circadian rhythm in our muscles combined with poor diet can contribute to the development of diabetes, according to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists have developed a novel, robust proteomics technique that can more accurately identify and spatially characterize thousands of proteins in single cells within human tissue samples, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Communications.

A team of scientists led by Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new details about a deadly heart condition with limited treatment options, according to a study published in the journal Circulation.

Scientists have discovered that psychological stress can induce immune responses to food that can cause symptoms when that food is eaten again, findings that demonstrate the potential role of psychological stress in food-induced symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to a recent study published in Gastroenterology.

Faculty, residents, trainees and students from Feinberg and beyond recently came together for Health Equity Week, a weeklong series of educational programming designed to expose the roots of healthcare inequities and actions to take to address them.

A team of experts led by Northwestern Medicine have developed a standardized approach that will improve the measurement of esophageal function to better diagnose upper gastrointestinal disorders, detailed in a recent publication.

Clinicians who received alerts via electronic health records systems were less likely to give unnecessary care to older adult patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered new mechanisms underlying cellular adhesion and repair, findings that could inform the development of new therapeutics that boost cellular repair after tissue injury, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Cell Biology.