News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our faculty’s latest achievements, awards and honors.
05.09.2025Feinberg’s Medical Faculty Council honored Allen Heinemann, PhD, the recipient of the 2025 Mentor of the Year award at a virtual and in-person workshop on May 5.
04.23.2025Fewer long-distance runners are dying from heart problems during organized races, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
04.03.2025Children in areas with the lowest Child Opportunity Index — which reflects factors like education, social and economic resources — were over twice as likely to suffer another violent injury within a year after an initial firearm-related emergency room visit, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
03.24.2025Opioid testing information was unavailable in half of injury death investigations in the U.S. and in 1 in 10 unintentional overdose death investigations conducted in 2021, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA.
03.21.2025Feinberg medical students’ excitement and anticipation erupted in a flurry of torn envelopes on March 21 as they discovered where they matched for residency training at this year’s Match Day celebration.
03.05.2025trueNorthwestern University has announced the launch of the new Center for Global Pediatric Health, a collaboration between the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health and at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
02.28.2025Hear from current resident physicians at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University as they share their personal journeys and explain why they chose their specific fields of medicine.
02.14.2025Many have posited the reason for rising mental health concerns among kids and teens – social media, the COVID-19 pandemic, stigma, etc. But the reality is there is a constellation of factors that contribute to this crisis, according to experts.
02.14.2025A new dashboard operated by Northwestern scientists will allow Illinois to better monitor violent deaths and non-fatal firearm violence at the county level to help prevent and reduce violence in the state.
01.29.2025Patients with opioid use disorder enrolled in Medicaid were less likely to receive telehealth care after the COVID-19 pandemic compared to patients with private insurance, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
12.13.2024Feinberg medical students will undergo intensive leadership coaching as part of their education under the new Leadership Identity Formation and Training initiative, or LIFT.
12.03.2024From 2008 to 2022, U.S. hospitals closed nearly 30 percent of pediatric inpatient units but only 4.4 percent of adult inpatient units, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.
11.01.2024The number of pediatric inpatient psychiatric beds has not risen to meet demand amid a growing youth mental health crisis, according to a Northwestern Medicine-led study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Youth opioid overdoses have risen since the pandemic, according to a study analyzing nationwide EMS encounters recently published in JAMA.
08.28.2024Nearly 20 percent of suicides in Illinois between 2020 and 2021 were among people 65 years and older, according to recently released data.
05.13.2024Faculty members and fourth-year medical students were recognized for academic and clinical excellence during Feinberg’s Honors Day, held on May 10 in the Hughes auditorium.