Feinberg School of Medicine

Ann & Robert H. of Chicago

Lurie Children's Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

(formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (formerly VA Chicago Health Care System)

(PhD) in basic science programs such as Biological Sciences and Clinical Psychology, and public health programs such as Health and Biomedical Informatics, Health Services and Outcomes Research, Epidemiology, and Translational Outcomes Science

Doctor of Philosophy

(DPT)

Doctor of Physical Therapy

Master of Medical Science (MMSc) in Studies

Physician Assistant

(MPH)

Master of Public Health

(MS) in programs such as Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Clinical Investigation, Genetic Counseling, Regulatory Compliance, or Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

Master of Science

Master of Medical Informatics (MMI)

Master of Prosthetics and Orthotics (MPO)

an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin for their fundamental work on the synapse. Eccles was a professor at Feinberg from 1966 to 1968.^[14]

John Eccles

a graduate of the class of 1940, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his co-discovery of the role of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule.^[15]

Robert Furchgott

an American pharmacologist and cell biologist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro, for demonstrating that nitroglycerin and related drugs worked by releasing nitric oxide into the body, which relaxed smooth muscle by elevating intracellular cyclic GMP. Murad was an adjunct professor at Feinberg from 1988 to 1998.^[14]

Ferid Murad

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, ranked first in the nation for physical medicine and rehabilitation hospitals

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, ranked ninth in the nation of America's Best Hospitals

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, nationally ranked in 10 specialties

Class of 1868, an early surgeon-scientist and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He was a former president of the American Medical Association in 1897.

Nicholas Senn

Class of 1870, ad eundem, first female surgeon in Chicago and first female surgeon at Cook County Hospital. Founder of the Mary Thompson Hospital^[29]

Mary Harris Thompson

James R. Walker, Class of 1873, joined the United States Indian Service and spent his professional life caring for and describing the society and norms of the Lakota, becoming an early scholar of Indian life as reported in his book The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota.^[31]

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Class of 1874, the first female member of the American Medical Association (AMA), head of the Illinois State Medical Society's committee on progress in physiology, and a leader and advocate for the emancipation of women and for the equal treatment of men and women.^[32]

Sarah Hackett Stevenson

Class of 1876, surgeon for whom Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, is named^[33]

Roswell Park

Class of 1880, former Director-General of the American College of Surgeons and founding editor of Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics^[34]

Franklin H. Martin

Class of 1881, American dermatologist whose name is associated with Fordyce's spot, Angiokeratoma of Fordyce, Brooke–Fordyce trichoepithelioma, Fordyce's disease, Fordyce's lesion, and Fox–Fordyce disease

John Addison Fordyce

Class of 1883, performed the first successful pericardial heart surgery in America; only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons

Daniel Hale Williams

Class of 1888, founder of Mayo Clinic

Charles Horace Mayo

Class of 1889, one of the first Native Americans to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from any school, and founder of the Society of American Indians

Carlos Montezuma

Class of 1891, an American physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics. DeLee founded the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, where he introduced the first portable infant incubator.

Joseph Bolivar DeLee

Class of 1891 Woman's Medical College, physician specializing in neurology, medical journal editor^[35][36]

Anne Hazen McFarland

Class of 1891, among the first American physicians to specialize in pediatrics, author of the major pediatric textbook of the first decades of the 20th century^[37]

Isaac Arthur Abt

Class of 1892, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate

George E. Hoyt

Class of 1893, first African-American medical student who simultaneously played collegiate football in the Big 10. In his honor, the George Jewett Trophy is a rivalry trophy awarded each time Northwestern plays Michigan in football.^[38]

George Jewett

class of 1894, African American doctor and journalist^[39]

A. Wilberforce Williams

Class of 1895, superintendent of training at Provident Hospital Training School for Nurses, physician in residence at Paul Quinn College, and the first African American woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University

Emma Ann Reynolds

Class of 1897, discovered bacteria of the genus Rickettsia, and identified the cause and methods of transmission of rocky mountain spotted fever^[40]

Howard T. Ricketts

Class of 1898, internist, endocrinologist and one of the founding partners of the Mayo Clinic. Considered to be the architect of the modern medical practice.^[41][42] The Plummer Building on the Mayo Clinic campus was named after him, as were Plummer-Vinson Syndrome and Plummer's nails.

Henry Stanley Plummer

Class of 1899, founder, regent, and president of the American College of Surgeons, internationally recognized as founder of modern hand and peripheral nerve surgery^[43]

Allen B. Kanavel

Class of 1899, a pediatrician considered the father of American neonatology. In 1922, he published the first textbook on prematurity and birth defects, and started the first premature infant station in the United States.

Julius Hess

a pediatrician and founding member of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Clifford G. Grulee

Loyal E. Davis, Class of 1918, American neurosurgeon, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Medical School, President of the American College of Surgeons, and adoptive father of former First Lady of the United States ^[44]

Nancy Reagan

Class of 1919, African-American dermatologist and philanthropist; advanced the treatment of leprosy and syphilis

Theodore K. Lawless

Class of 1925, African-American physician and activist who played a major role in desegregation of Chicago's health facilities

Arthur Falls

Class of 1926, surgeon in Johannesburg and later president (1940–1949) of the African National Congress, preceding Nelson Mandela. The first black South African to graduate from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1932)^[45]

Alfred Bitini Xuma

Class of 1926, 1968 winner of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on brain development and injury

William F. Windle

Eric Oldberg, Class of 1927, neurosurgeon, co-discoverer of , director of neurological surgery at the University of Illinois School of Medicine (1936–1971),^[46] director of the Chicago Board of Health (1960–1979)^[47][48]

cholecystokinin

Class of 1930, president, Northwestern University 1949–1969;^[49] dean, Northwestern University Medical School, 1941–1949

J. Roscoe Miller

Class of 1931, pioneer in the use of hypnosis in medicine and co-founder and founder of medical societies and academies dedicated to furthering psychosomatic medicine and medical hypnosis.

William S. Kroger

Kenneth Gieser, Class of 1934, co-founder of the Christian Medical Society, now .

Christian Medical and Dental Associations

Class of 1935, a cardiologist who recognized the role of cholesterol and diet in atherosclerotic heart disease and later demonstrated that heparin prevents arterial clots.

Roger W. Robinson

George Peterson, Class of 1935, co-founder of the Christian Medical Society, now .

Christian Medical and Dental Associations

Class of 1939, American psychiatrist, and expert on violence and combat stress and the 103rd president of the American Psychiatric Association.

John Patrick Spiegel

Class of 1940, 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of nitric oxide

Robert F. Furchgott

Class of 1946: President of Guyana from 1992 to 1997

Cheddi Jagan

class of 1946, American cardiologist and first in Chicago to use cardiopulmonary bypass in heart surgery^[50]

Arthur DeBoer

Class of 1947, epidemiologist, leader of the College Alumni Health Study in the 1960s, which established the health benefits of exercise, considered the father of the modern fitness movement

Ralph S. Paffenbarger

Class of 1947, leader in public health policy and medical and social justice issues; founded Physicians for a National Health Program and co-founded the Medical Committee for Human Rights,

Quentin D. Young

Class of 1948, Distinguished University Professor of Medicine, University of Kansas. Developed the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK) and invented the expandable tampon. Namesake of the Arey/Krantz Museum of Anatomy at the Feinberg School of Medicine.

Kermit E. Krantz

Class of 1951, first president of the Association of American Medical Colleges

John A. D. Cooper

Class of 1952, performed the first successful liver transplant in 1967 and received the National Medal of Science in 2004

Thomas E. Starzl

Class of 1952, pediatric endocrinologist and pioneer of growth hormone therapy

Robert M. Blizzard

Robert A. Kyle, Class of 1952, hematologist who developed our modern understanding of amyloidosis and various monoclonal gammopathies

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first physician in space, flew on three skylab missions and later served as director of Space and Life Sciences at NASA

Joseph P. Kerwin

Edmond I. Eger II, MD, Class of 1955, developed the potency concept of for anesthetic gasses. He also identified opportunities for new drugs to be used as anesthesia, including isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane.^[52][53]

minimum alveolar concentration

Class of 1958, president of the American Medical Association (1989–90) and the World Medical Association (1991–92)

Alan R. Nelson

Class of 1958, a psychiatrist who became chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College in 1974, served as Chairman of the Payne-Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan for 17 years, and then served as Dean and Provost at Cornell from 1991 to 1996

Robert Michels

Myles Cunningham, Class of 1958, president of the , 1997

American Cancer Society

Class of 1963, GME 1969, first woman president of American Academy of Neurology, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago Medical Society, and the Chicago Neurological Society

Sandra F. Olson

Class of 1963, immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Irun Cohen

Joseph Silva, Class of 1966, dean, , 1997–2005

University of California–Davis School of Medicine

Eugene A. Bauer, Class of 1967, vice president for medical affairs and dean, , 1995–2001

Stanford University School of Medicine

Class of 1971, J.N. Harber Chairman Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and director emeritus of the Barrow Neurological Institute

Robert F. Spetzler

Jay Perman, Class of 1972, president, , 2010 – present, dean, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, 2004–2010

University of Maryland, Baltimore

Class of 1972, developed the dominant patent for a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) (administered as Gardasil) to prevent cervical cancer^[54]

C. Richard Schlegel

Class of 1974, president of the University of Iowa 2003–2006, president of Cornell University 2006–2015, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 2015–2019 and president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019–present.

David J. Skorton

John R. Lumpkin, Class of 1974, country's first African-American emergency room physician and authority on public health issues affecting patient care

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Joseph A. Walder, Class of 1975, founder and CEO of , the largest supplier of custom nucleic acids in the United States

Integrated DNA Technologies

Francisco González-Scarano, Class of 1975, neurologist working on the neurotropism of viruses, and former dean of the , Texas

University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio

Class of 1977, American geriatrician, MacArthur Fellow, and internationally recognized expert on palliative medicine

Diane E. Meier

Class of 1977, served as interim Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the FDA

Janet Woodcock

Class of 1977, principal investigator of the first artificial human ovary and former president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Sandra Carson

Class of 1978, Michigan Medical School Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, Executive Director of the University of Michigan Medical Group, and Surgeon-in-Chief at University Hospital

Michael Mulholland

Steven J. Corwin, Class of 1979, president and CEO of ^[56]

The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, Class of 1979, former executive vice president for medical affairs, University of Michigan; CEO, , president of Oakland University

University of Michigan Health System

Andrew E. Senyei, Class of 1979, inventor, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur, founder of biotech and genetics companies

Class of 1981, infectious disease specialist, discovered and reported first human cases of West Nile virus in the United States.^[57]

Deborah Asnis

David J. Smith, Class of 1981, Read Admiral, joint staff surgeon/chief medical advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; United States delegate to the North American Treaty Organization Council of Medical Directors

Class of 1981, Rear Admiral, deputy U.S. Surgeon General

Boris Lushniak

Michael Parmacek, Class of 1981, chair of the Department of Medicine,

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Class of 1982, American internist, geriatrician, and medical educator, UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Catherine R. Lucey

James P. Kelly, Class of 1983, director, National Intrepid Center of Excellence

,A Class of 1985, is a distinguished neurologist known for discovering how apoE4 contributes to Alzheimer's Disease and how synaptic activity and sleep modulates the levels of amyloid beta and tau proteins in the brain.

David M. Holtzman

Class of 1984, president, Baylor College of Medicine, 2003–2008

Peter G. Traber

Class of 1985, NASA mission specialist, 2000–present; member International Space Station Expeditions 19 and 20, 2009; on final flight of Discovery 2011 STS 133.

Michael Barratt

GME 1985 and 1986, vice president and dean, Penn State Hershey Medical College

Harold Paz

clase of 1996, neuroscientist.

Amy Wagner

Class of 1997: 1988 Olympic Figure Skating Bronze Medalist and orthopedic surgeon

Debi Thomas

GME 1999, American pediatric and adolescent gynecologist, and Executive President and Provost of The Ohio State University

Melissa L. Gilliam

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern Memorial Hospital