Empowering Nurses to Participate in Research

Candice Krill, MS, MBA, RN, ACM, quality director at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, received national recognition for her article on how research can change hospital practices and improve patient safety.

Open-Heart Surgery Patient Tackles 35th Consecutive Boston Marathon

Mark Buciak, 53, of Chicago, talks about his 2006 surgery and his return to Boston after last year's bombing attack.

Polypill May Prove Beneficial for Heart Health

Review finds that taking one pill instead of three could be a powerful ally to prevent cardiovascular disease.

New Leadership in Hospital Medicine

Kevin O’Leary, MD, GME ’00, MS ’09, a leader in inter-professional teamwork and patient safety research, has been named chief of the division.

A Look at How Insulin Regulates Metabolism

Morris Birnbaum, MD, PhD, Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania, presents “Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism” as part of the Lectures in Life Sciences series at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, in the Hughes Auditorium at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. Dr. Birnbaum’s lab investigates the signal transduction pathways that govern cardiac growth, the pathways that control cardiac metabolism and the regulation of lipid metabolism and how this becomes disrupted in insulin-resistant states.

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