Dean's Media

Dean Neilson offers his perspective and insights through a variety of publications at Feinberg, Northwestern Medicine and our greater Chicago community.

How Can We Let Medical Research Funds Wither?
August 23, 2021 | Chicago Tribune
This editorial explores the importance of financially protecting the National Institutes of Health to ensure we have a healthy future.

Medical Education in the Time of COVID-19
July 29, 2020 | Science Advances
The persistence of SARS-Cov-2 may fundamentally alter the landscape of medical education and hospital training, according to this Northwestern Medicine editorial.

Medical Education 2020—Charting a Path Forward
September 10, 2019 | JAMA
This editorial explores the importance of MD curricula that prioritizes the carefully considered skills and competencies students and trainees will need to modernize clinical practice.

Teaching Medical Students About Conflicts of Interest
May 2, 2017 | JAMA
This editorial explores the need for MD curricula that educates students about potential influences, bias, and their consequences, as well as how to identify, evaluate, and manage potential conflicts.

Pathway to Medicine: Eric Neilson
June 2016 | Feinberg Office of Diversity & Inclusion's "Pathways to Medicine" Series
This story series features Neilson's recollection of how he became a doctor.

Faculty foundation doctors vote to join Northwestern Memorial
July 30, 2013 | Crain's Chicago Business
An announcement of the merger of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.

A choice: Save Prentice or save lives, add jobs and research dollars
September 5, 2012 | Chicago Sun Times
A proposal to make the old Prentice Women's Hospital a Chicago landmark threatens to prevent Northwestern University from building a new facility that would bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funds. That would in turn thwart the creation of thousands of jobs, obstruct lifesaving medical science and block plans to make the city a global hub for jobs fueled by technology and innovation.

Prentice building proposal ignores Northwestern's research needs
August 16, 2012 | Crain's Chicago Business
A proposal to make the old Prentice Women's Hospital a Chicago landmark threatens to prevent Northwestern University from building a new facility that would bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funds. That would in turn thwart the creation of thousands of jobs, obstruct lifesaving medical science and block plans to make the city a global hub for jobs fueled by technology and innovation.