The 2022 Simon M. Shubitz Prize and Lecture was awarded to John Carpten, PhD, an internationally recognized expert in cancer genomics and precision oncology.
Dr. Thomas Spiegel has been appointed Chief Quality Officer and Dr. Ira Blumen named Interim Chief for the Section of Emergency Medicine at UChicago Medicine.
UChicago Medicine will expand its collaboration with Silver Cross Hospital by adding neuroscience and neurological disorders care to the New Lenox facility.
While hormone therapy was associated with higher self-reported quality of life in white women, Black women actually experienced lower overall quality of life under the same treatment.
Renowned UChicago Medicine health disparities researcher Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MsC, was one of 100 people elected to the 2022 class of the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field. Peek, an internist and the Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice, was elected for her international leadership in reducing health disparities through research examining how structural racism and the social determinants of health perpetuate disparities in Black communities.
A recent survey showed that family and friends who care for dependent adults are at increased risk of health-related socioeconomic vulnerabilities compared to non-caregivers.
The University of Chicago Medicine's heart transplant program is making history once again. The program's transplant survival rates and transplant wait times are not only the best in the country, but they're the best in the history of heart transplantation, according to an analysis of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data.
The University of Chicago has received a $10 million gift from the Lohengrin Foundation to help establish a center of excellence in research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. ALS and its related conditions are devastating neurological diseases. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS progressively destroys nerve cells that control body movements, and affects as many as 30,000 Americans each year.
Jasmin A. Tiro, PhD, MPH, has joined the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center as the new Associate Director of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences. Tiro was formerly Professor of Population and Data Sciences at Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
UChicago Medicine and AdventHealth signed a definitive agreement to enter into an affiliation that will increase access to a spectrum of services, treatment options and cutting-edge clinical trials for residents in Chicago’s western suburbs.
A nursing leader with nearly two decades of health experience, Gretchen Pacholek has led key organizational initiatives and overseen operative improvements at UChicago Medicine.
University of Chicago Medicine Feed1st pantries distributed more than twice as much food than normal between March 2020 and November 2021, while pantry program at a similar hospital that required patrons to provide identification to receive food saw distribution rates drop.
Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency Preparedness Program (MedCEEP), a program created to empower underrepresented minority youth to become trained in recognizing and responding to the most prevalent life-threatening emergency scenarios while being exposed to health-related careers, has received a $15,000 grant from My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation.
A new €10M grant will support an international, multi-institution effort to develop algorithms capable of predicting an individual patient’s response to immunotherapy.
Maia Hightower, MD, MBA, MPH, an internist and accomplished healthcare IT executive, has been named the University of Chicago Medicine’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer effective August 15, 2022. Hightower is CEO and co-founder of Equality AI, a startup that helps clinical teams achieve health equity through responsible AI and machine-learning operations.
Researchers assessing the accuracy of star ratings for the Nursing Home Care Compare system found the number and severity of pressure ulcers in patients was underreported, thus questioning the reliability of the self-reported data on patient safety measures.
Eighteen South Side community groups are receiving $150,000 to support their grassroots work supporting youth and keeping them safe during the summer — a time when violence and violent injuries typically increases in the Chicagoland area. The funding is made possible through the annual grants program from Southland RISE (Resilience Initiative to Strengthen and Empower), a collaborative uniting the trauma recovery programs from the University of Chicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care.
The University of Chicago Medicine broke ground on a new two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana for what will be the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana. The $121 million state-of-the-art care center, at I-65 and 109th Avenue in Crown Point, is expected to open in spring of 2024.
New study highlights the large discrepancy between recommended guidelines and a physician's time, but a team-based care model could be a partial remedy.
New research from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that a decline in a person’s sense of smell over time predicts their loss of cognitive function and can foretell structural changes in regions of the brain that are important in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The findings could lead to the development of smell-test screening to detect cognitive impairment earlier in patients.
The University of Chicago Medical Center is one of just 24 hospitals nationwide to have 10 specialties that rank on U.S. News & World Report's 2022-2023 Best Hospitals list.
Researchers discover a new fossil that is closely related to other animals that made the transition to land, but with features more suited for swimming and life in the water.
The University of Chicago Medicine and the WNBA Chicago Sky renewed their partnership in a multiyear agreement where the academic health system will continue to serve as the team’s official medical provider and a major sponsor.
Mark Anderson, a renowned scholar, physician and caregiver, has been appointed to lead the University of Chicago's field-defining work in medicine and biological sciences as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine, effective October 1, 2022.
As part of UChicago Medicine's community engagement efforts, the public is invited to provide input to inform the services and offerings at what will be the state’s only freestanding comprehensive cancer center.
The University of Chicago Medicine released its 2021-22 Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) for the communities the health system serves on Chicago’s South Side and in the south suburbs.
No more packing donor lungs on ice. UChicago Medicine is deploying a new ice-free, temperature-controlled cold storage cooler to transport donor lungs.
A new computer model uses publicly available data to predict crime accurately in eight U.S. cities, while revealing increased police response in wealthy neighborhoods at the expense of less advantaged areas.
The University of Chicago Medicine hopes to recruit 50,000 people to participate in a new national study designed to explore the causes of cancer and learn more about how to prevent it.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Amsterdam have brought insight into one crucial step in the anti-cancer immune response process: T cell priming.
The Leapfrog Group gives the University of Chicago Medical Center its 21st consecutive A in hospital safety — one of only 22 acute-care facilities nationwide with such a record — while UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial gets another B.
The University of Chicago Medicine contributed $606.9 million in benefits and services to residents of the South Side and Southland areas in fiscal 2021, according to the latest annual report that outlines the academic health system’s investments in and support of the community.
The University of Chicago Medicine has received the top score and the designation of “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader” in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 15th anniversary edition of the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). The HEI is the nation’s foremost survey of healthcare facilities on policies and practices dedicated to the equitable treatment and inclusion of LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees.
A new report from the Lown Institute, a non-partisan think tank that advocates for a just healthcare system, ranks the University of Chicago Medicine No. 6 on its list of the most racially inclusive hospitals.
Seven researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded pilot grants from the Ovarian Cancer SPORE to make progress in research for ovarian cancer, the fifth leading cause of cancer death in women.
UChicago researchers discovered several important mechanisms that affect how ovarian cancer tumors interact with the immune response and how combination therapies can exploit these pathways to improve ovarian cancer treatment.
The regulatory Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved the University of Chicago Medicine’s application for a master design permit Tuesday, allowing the academic health system to move forward with the design and planning process for the state’s and city’s first freestanding comprehensive cancer center.