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More than 600 alumni and guests visited campus on Friday and Saturday as part of Alumni Weekend. Attendees had the opportunity to catch up with classmates and learn the latest about the medical school.

"I Do" Before the Operating Room

Lewis Stepp was about to undergo a seven-hour vascular surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, but he wanted to do one thing first: marry his girlfriend. A staff social worker made it happen.

Postpartum Depression in Fathers?

A new study finds that depressive symptoms increase over the first five years of fatherhood for young men who were around 25 years old when they became fathers and who live in the same home as their children.

"Why I Walk"

Pam Chay, RN, shares her emotional story of delivering triplets prematurely and explains why she supports the March of Dimes.

Discussing the Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance

Gerald Shulman, MD, PhD, professor of Internal Medicine & Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, presents “Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance: Implications for Obesity, Lipodystrophy and Type 2 Diabetes” as part of the Lectures in Life Sciences series at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, in the Baldwin Auditorium at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. A leading authority on the topic, he is also an expert on the role of the liver and muscle in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and the benefits of exercise in the management of the disease. Dr. Shulman has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

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