Faculty News & Updates
Keith Jonathan Ruskin, MD receives Glenn and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching
The University of Chicago has honored 11 instructors, graduate and undergraduate students for their exceptional work as teachers. Nominated by undergraduates in the College, these winners demonstrated the ability to push students to think beyond the classroom, and to...
Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade Receives Prestigious Awards for Groundbreaking Breast Cancer Research Contributions
Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade receives three of the most prestigious awards for her groundbreaking Breast Cancer Research contributions.
Four UChicago Medicine Faculty Elected to Association of American Physicians
Four UChicago Medicine faculty members were elected to the 2024 class of the Association of American Physicians (AAP), a prestigious medical society that acknowledges the nation's leading physician-scientists. Founded in 1885 by Sir William Osler and six distinguished...
Congratulations to 2023 AAMC Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Award Recipient Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH, FACS
Congratulations to 2023 AAMC Award Recipient Dr. Selwyn Rogers
Iris Romero named inaugural Executive Vice Dean
Announcing Iris Romero, MD, MS, as the inaugural Executive Vice Dean (EVD) of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Applications Open for Inaugural SPARC Cohort
Applications for Inaugural SPARC Cohort are due on June 30, 2023.
Congratulations to the 2023 winners of the Academic Communications Network Excellence Awards!
Congratulations to the 2023 BSD Faculty winners of the Academic Communications Network Excellence Awards!
Six University of Chicago scholars named 2022 AAAS fellows
Six University of Chicago researchers were named 2022 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their distinguished contributions to the sciences.
Six UChicago BSD faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships
Congratulations to Mark Anderson, Shabaana A. Khader, Diane S. Lauderdale, Jeffrey Matthews, Marsha Rich Rosner, & Everett Vokes!
Dr Vineet Arora on the Role of Health Care Professionals, Medical Schools in Addressing Misinformation
Individual clinicians can lead efforts to build trust in science and distribute accurate information, but medical schools also have an important role to play in training healthcare professionals to communicate with the public, according to Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, dean...
UChicago Medicine Improves Workplace Wellbeing with US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
“Access to mental health support is vital to our overall well-being,” said Dr. Murthy. “During my travels across the country as Surgeon General, I’ve heard firsthand about the mental health struggles and loneliness that people are facing. While the pandemic brought...
UChicago Medicine, Legal Aid Chicago launch bedside program to provide in-hospital legal support for trauma patients injured by violence
The University of Chicago Medicine has launched a novel program with Legal Aid Chicago, embedding two full-time lawyers within the health system’s Level 1 trauma center.