I Through Northwestern Medicine, We Will create a national epicenter for healthcare, education, research, community service, and advocacy. As partners in Northwestern Medicine, we are endeavoring fl oor basis with the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. to create a national epicenter for healthcare, education, Construction will take place over two or three phases with the research, community service, and advocacy. Together with facility ultimately standing, at about 30 stories, as the world’s you – our patients, physicians and scientists, students, tallest medical research building. Our biomedical research trainees, alumni, employees, and many friends – we have an building will provide dedicated space for the research arm of unprecedented opportunity to transform healthcare through the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Northwestern Medicine and to stand among the nation’s top academic medical centers. We are proud to share that Northwestern Memorial Hospital has earned the #6 place on U.S. News & World Report’s We have launched We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern 2013–2014 prestigious Honor Roll of Best Hospitals for Medicine to inspire and to provide crucial resources that will the depth and breadth of its clinical excellence. These propel innovation and excellence across our great academic rankings recognize only 18 of 5,000 hospitals nationwide. medical center. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is on a similar exciting trajectory – continuing as a highly ranked Ultimately, we will impact the health of humankind through the: research medical school and attracting more than 7,200 applicants in 2013 for only 154 seats in the fi rst-year class. • talented people we recruit and retain to teach students, conduct research, and serve our patients; This is just the beginning. We hope you will join us in • breakthrough research investigations we lead; shaping and realizing a bold vision for the future of Northwestern Medicine. • world-class research and care facilities we build to foster our missions; and the • educational and outreach efforts we champion to support and improve the lives of our students, trainees, alumni, faculty and staff, patients, and local and global communities. Already, we are moving forward with exciting plans to develop new facilities that will help us to deliver exceptional patient care and to advance our research mission. We are building a contemporary facility at 259 E. Erie Street in Chicago, adjacent to Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Feinberg and Galter pavilions. And north of the city, we are constructing a centerpiece hospital and medical offi ce buildings to replace the current facilities at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. Eric G. Neilson, MD, and Dean M. Harrison As the cornerstone of efforts to double our research enterprise, we are designing a 12-story biomedical research Eric G. Neilson, MD Dean M. Harrison building that will anchor Northwestern University’s research Vice President for President and facilities. This center will be the hub of an exceptional Medical Affairs Chief Executive Offi cer research and development enterprise that will attract Lewis Landsberg Dean Northwestern Memorial innovation and entrepreneurship. The 600,000-square-foot Northwestern University HealthCare building will be adjacent to and connected on a fl oor-by- Feinberg School of Medicine Biomedical Research Building 1 INSTITUTES AT NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE The Institutes at Northwestern Medicine are Cancer Institutes We Will shape the omnidisciplinary units focused on planning, In addition to creating a leading-edge Department of coordinating, and implementing patient care, Cancer Biology, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer future of medical care research, education, community service, and Center of Northwestern University is establishing several advocacy across broad areas of biomedicine. new institutes and centers within the next few years to and research. Through our 10 core institutes at Northwestern facilitate the work of our cancer physicians and scientists. Medicine, we are providing exciting opportunities Cancer Institutes at the Lurie Cancer Center: Our breakthroughs are to bring our best people, programs, and resources Cancer Survivorship Institute together to cross the boundaries of our schools, Cellular Immunotherapy Institute your breakthroughs. departments, and hospitals and to drive Developmental Therapeutics Institute high-impact scientifi c and clinical innovation. Early Cancer Detection Technologies Institute Gastrointestinal Oncology Institute Hematologic Malignancies Institute Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute Oncology Nursing Institute Prostate and Genitourinary Malignancies Institute Sarcoma Institute Skin Cancer Institute Thoracic Oncology Institute Women’s Cancers Institute Annual Cancer Survivors' Celebration Walk & 5K Discovery through Research 2 3 INSTITUTES AT NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute’s new inpatient and observation cardiology services unit in the Galter Pavilion ensures that we maintain high quality outcomes, increase patient satisfaction, decrease length of stay, and reduce avoidable hospitalizations. Excellence in Cardiothoracic Surgery Care for our Newest Chicagoans at Prentice Women’s Hospital Heart Institutes system. A key element of this incubator will be the formation Mothers and Children’s Institute Transplantation, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Through the Heart Institutes – the Bluhm Cardiovascular of interdisciplinary teams of leading researchers in the life, Through the Mothers and Children’s Institute, we will Medicine Institute Institute (BCVI) and the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research physical, engineering, rehabilitation, and clinical sciences – all continue to provide national impact. The clinical strengths of Our Transplantation, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Institute (FCVRI) – we are making daily contributions to areas of excellence at Northwestern University – to promote Prentice Women’s Hospital and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Medicine Institute at Northwestern Medicine is leveraging cardiovascular medicine and science. At the world-renowned cross-fertilization of ideas and innovation. To put thought into Children’s Hospital of Chicago are balanced by exceptional the strengths of the Northwestern Comprehensive Transplant BCVI, we offer clinical excellence and specialists in coronary action and propel the discovery process forward, the institute research initiatives that have already captured the support Center. We are integrating 50 years of clinical care, discovery, disease, heart failure, heart rhythm disorders, heart valve will create technical platforms where these teams can use an of the National Institutes of Health. Through the Mothers and and education in transplantation by expanding the scope disease, vascular disease, and women’s cardiovascular health. array of emerging, cutting-edge tools to probe disease Children’s Institute, we have opportunities to conduct to include progressive research that uses novel tissue- Our basic scientists at the FCVRI are developing innovative mechanisms, progression, and treatment. research into the developmental origins of disease and engineering and regenerative medicine approaches. With the approaches to regenerate heart and blood vessels and are at translate our fi ndings into patient care and community- ultimate goal of using the patient’s own cells to regenerate the precipice of a new understanding of the mechanisms Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute wide health. and replace diseased organs while eliminating the need for of disease. Through our preventive medicine efforts, we are Through the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, we anti-rejection drugs, the team at Northwestern is poised to improving the cardiovascular health of both individuals are catalyzing clinical care, discovery, education, and Institute for Genes and Environment solve the organ shortage. and populations through translational research, education prevention that build on Northwestern Medicine’s leadership Personalized medicine has emerged from a growing and training, community outreach, and the promotion of and breakthrough research in treating diabetes and obesity, appreciation of individual differences in our genes and Institute for Public Health and Medicine public health. as well as related complications. At Northwestern, we are environment. Through the new Institute for Genes and Health problems that include shifting patterns of diseases incorporating genetic, molecular, and physiological discoveries Environment at Northwestern Medicine, we are exploring related to globalization, an aging population, sedentary Institute for Translational Neuroscience into the development of effective nutritional interventions and infl uencing this exciting and rapidly evolving frontier lifestyles, increasing poverty, health disparities, new More than any other organ system, the brain defi nes who and wellness and healthy-lifestyle programs. Thus, we will of study and practice. At Northwestern, we are using the epidemics, and chronic diseases contribute to disability in we are as human beings. Disease, traumatic injury, and advance our Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute into following 21st century observations and measurements, our society. The Institute for Public Health and Medicine has even aging can impair brain function and deprive us of the an internationally recognized, comprehensive “one-stop-shop” such as deep phenotyping, epigenetics,