Winter 2015–16 Volume 03, Number 01 A publication for the alumni and friends of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University P.18 Broadly Specialized New urology chair excels at wearing many hats P.12 P.22 P.25 Celebrating Tomorrow’s Better another therapies measures, tremendous year here today better care ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: Northwestern University Call or e-mail us at 312.503.4210 or Feinberg School of Medicine [email protected] Office of Communications ©2016 Northwestern University. 420 E. Superior Street Northwestern Medicine® is a federally Rubloff 12th floor registered trademark of Northwestern Chicago, IL 60611 Memorial HealthCare and is used by Northwestern University. LIVE FROM CHICAGO, IT’S FEINBERG NIGHT! ASPIRING DOCTORS SATIRIZED THE MEDICAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE AT THE 37TH ANNUAL STUDENT SKETCH COMEDY SHOW IN VIVO TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS. ENTITLED “FEINBERG NIGHT LIVE, “ THE SHOW WAS HELD NOVEMBER 14. READ MORE ONLINE AT MAGAZINE.NM.ORG. Northwestern Medicine 02 Northwestern Medicine Leadership Message WINTER 2015–16 Magazine Reflecting on Our Values as a Shared Enterprise VOLUME 03, NUMBER 01 Campus News MAGAZINE.NM.ORG 03 Hospira Gift Creates Unique Professorship 04 Faculty Awards and Honors 06 Expanding Proteomics Research Northwestern Medicine Magazine is 07 Milestone for New Curriculum published quarterly for alumni and friends 08 Research Briefs of Northwestern University Feinberg 10 Media Spotlight School of Medicine, Northwestern 12 Features Memorial HealthCare, and the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. Ward Rounds (Alumni) News 28 Alumni Board President’s Message Material in Northwestern Medicine Magazine may not be reproduced without prior consent and 30 Progress Notes proper credit. 33 Progress Notes Awards/Honors 35 “The Kids Helping Kids Club” by Cyril Ramer, ’60 MD 36 Passport to Multifaceted Career 38 More than the Cure EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR David Winchester, 40 In Memoriam and Upcoming Events OF COMMUNICATIONS ’63 MD Nicole Mladic Eric G. Neilson, MD, Dean INTERIM EDITOR Cheryl SooHoo Alan Krensky, MD, Vice Dean for Develop- EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ment and Alumni Anita Chase Relations Babette Nyka, Director, BROADLY SPECIALIZED CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Alumni Relations Anita Chase New urology chair leads with rare Janet DeRaleau ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Nora Dunne Bruce Scharschmidt, combination of skills Martha O’Connell ’70 MD, President Marla Paul James P. Kelly, ’73 MD, Sarah Plumridge President-elect Carolyn Schierhorn INSIDE FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORIAL BOARD Nathan Mandell F. Douglas Carr, ’78 MD Carla Hightower, ’87 MD, ADDITIONAL ’91 GME PHOTOGRAPHY Jennifer Hobbs, ’07 PhD Sarah Plumridge: p. 29 Kerry Humes, ’90 MD Bruce Powell: pp. 18–19 James Kelly, ’83 MD DESIGN Alice Perry, ’88 PT Firebelly Design Thomas Pitts, ’76 MD P.18 Paloma Toledo, ’03 MD/MPH ANOTHER DELIVERING MEASURE TREMENDOUS BREAKTHROUGHS BY MEASURE COVER ART: Artistic rendering of an up close look YEAR at a prostate cancer cell. Feinberg’s new urology Innovative treatments poised Surgical Outcomes and Quality leader, a noted surgeon and scientist, has found 2015 Accomplishments to become tomorrow’s Improvement Center focuses on that African-American men are at higher risk for and Activities standard of care at North- enhancing patient care developing more aggressive tumors. western Medicine P.12 P.22 P.25 fb.me/feinbergschoolofmedicine twitter.com/nufeinbergmed MAGAZINE.NM.ORG: Additional Content Online Image Slideshow Video flickr.com/feinbergschoolofmedicine WINTER 2015-16 1 Northwestern Medicine Leadership integrated to serve our patients. We welcomed KishHealth System into the Northwestern Medicine family, later in the spring we look forward to Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital joining Northwest- ern Medicine and construction continues on the new Lake Forest Hospital, scheduled for completion in the spring of 2018. Of course, the construction of the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center, which broke ground last May, is another landmark achievement for Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern University and the entire research enterprise. Over the next three years, as we watch this impressive new building take shape, we’ll also be planning for the new faculty, students and research programs that will be housed inside. As our health system continues to grow, our shared mission and values remain consis- tent: Patients are at the core of everything we do. All of us – from physicians to nurses, faculty to staff – are working together to improve health. Likewise, our unique partnership means that breakthrough By all measures, 2015 was another impres- renowned neurosurgeon, with a well- discoveries are happening a stone’s throw sive year for Northwestern Medicine: we deserved reputation for investigating and away from the patient bedsides where continued expansion of our health system, carrying out creative approaches to treat those new treatments will be delivered. broke ground on new construction that will adults with both malignant and benign We look forward to another year of transform the face of the size and scope of brain tumors. He is exactly the sort of impressive achievements in 2016, and are our research program and during the latter innovative physician-scientist that embod- deeply grateful to our physicians, nurses, part of the year, we welcomed two ies Northwestern Medicine’s ideals. faculty, staff, students and trainees, without distinguished new department chairs. In December, Edward (Ted) M. Schaeffer, whom none of it would be possible. Now, as we look back on the achieve- MD, PhD, joined Northwestern Medicine as ments of the last year and welcome new chair of the departments of Urology at With warm regards, leaders to the Northwestern Medicine family, Feinberg and Northwestern Memorial it’s also important to reflect on the values Hospital. An internationally-recognized Eric G. Neilson, MD that lie at the heart of our shared Northwest- physician-scientist with deep expertise in Vice President for Medical Affairs and Lewis ern Medicine vision – access to world-class urologic oncology, he conducts leading- Landsberg Dean, Northwestern University care informed by science and delivered with edge research on the molecular biology of Feinberg School of Medicine a focus on listening, empathy and caring. lethal prostate cancers. Ted represents an In September, Maciej (Matt) Lesniak, exciting and dynamic addition to our clinical Dean M. Harrison MD, was named the Michael J. Marchese and research efforts, which are already President and CEO Professor and chair of the departments well-known for their excellence. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare of Neurological Surgery at Feinberg and Throughout 2015, our health system Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Matt is a continued to evolve and become more 2 NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE MAGAZINE Campus News NOTEWORTHY GIFTS Hospira Foundation Gift Snorfs Build Strong Expands Cancer Research Legacy of Giving GENEROUS DONATION CREATES UNIQUE TRANSLATIONAL CANCER BIOLOGY PROFESSORSHIP A recent $5 million gift from the Hospira Foundation to North- western University Feinberg School of Medicine will establish the Hospira Foundation Professorship in Translational Cancer Biology at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of North- western University. The professorship is the first of its kind at the University. “This gift from the Hospira Foundation will help expand the groundbreaking research conducted at the Lurie Cancer Center and accelerate the development of innovative new treatments,” says Eric G. Neilson, MD, vice president for medical affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean of Feinberg. “This extraordinary commit- ment will help ensure that Northwestern Medicine attracts and retains the nation’s top physician-scientists and allows them to make lasting impacts on medicine and society as a whole.” From the $5 million, $3 million will go toward creating the DR. CHARLES AND LESLIE SNORF endowed professorship in perpetuity at Northwestern. The remaining $2 million will be used to support the research activi- Alumnus and retired orthopaedic surgeon ties of the professor, including defraying the expenses of Charles R. Snorf, ’58 MD, ’63 GME, and his wife, establishing his or her laboratory and supporting the training of Leslie, recently made a $5 million transforma- fellows, graduate students and others who play a key role in the tive gift to Northwestern University Feinberg professor’s research efforts. School of Medicine and the Department of “This generous gift will allow us to recruit and fund the Orthopaedic Surgery. research of outstanding investigators working to translate cancer The couple’s gift will establish two biology into new treatments for our patients,” says Leonidas endowments in perpetuity in the Department Platanias, MD, PhD, director of the Lurie Cancer Center. “We are of Orthopaedic Surgery — the Charles and grateful to Hospira for supporting our efforts to establish the city Leslie Snorf Professorship and the Charles and of Chicago as a global leader in personalized cancer treatment.” Leslie Snorf Research and Education Fund The Hospira Foundation was the philanthropic affiliate of — and will add $1 million in new scholarship Hospira, Inc., which was acquired by Pfizer Inc. in September 2015. funds to substantially boost the impact and The Hospira Foundation gift counts as part of We Will. The reach