News & Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our faculty’s latest achievements, awards and honors.
- 03.02.2022
Patients with COVID-19-associated lung disease who received lung transplants had similar outcomes compared to patients without COVID-19, according to a study published in JAMA.
- 02.08.2022
Satish Nadig, MD, PhD, is looking to build on Northwestern’s strong foundation of transplant initiatives and push forward into a new era of transplantation.
- 01.27.2022
Northwestern University scientists have discovered families of proteins in the body that could potentially predict which patients may reject a new organ transplant, helping inform decisions about care.
- 12.02.2021
U.S. surgical residents who identify as LGBTQ+ reported higher rates of mistreatment in their training programs than their non-LGBTQ+ peers, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.
- 11.11.2021
The student-led Ophthalmology Interest Group recently held a suturing workshop, offering Feinberg students the opportunity to practice surgical techniques on mock organs.
- 11.01.2021
Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD, has been named chief of Organ Transplantation in the Department of Surgery and director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center.
- 09.01.2021
Unionized surgical resident programs are more likely to offer additional vacation time and housing stipends, but unions had no impact on burnout, mistreatment or other benefits, according to a recent study.
- 07.28.2021
Noted trauma surgeon Hasan Alam, MD, takes the reins of the Department of Surgery and as the Loyal and Edith Davis Professor of Surgery, and professor of Cell and Developmental Biology.
- 07.15.2021
A new project led by Northwestern Medicine investigators aims to mitigate food deserts and kidney disease in predominantly Black communities in Chicago.