BREAKTHROUGHS AND PROFESSIONAL UPDATES FOR PHYSICIANS FROM NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE

Breakthroughs for Physicians provides timely updates on the clinical and scientific advances made by Northwestern Medicine physicians and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members. Anchored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in downtown Chicago, Northwestern Medicine is achieving breakthroughs through innovative research and leading-edge clinical trials while delivering world-class patient care.

uPDATES FROM nORTHWESTERN mEDICINE

​​Featuring: Ankit Bharat, MBBS
Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double-lung transplant on a COVID-19 patient using lungs donated by someone who had previously recovered from COVID-19. The transplant recipient is an Illinois man in his 60s. The donor had cleared the virus after having mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms. 
Featuring: James Wade - III, MD
Perioperative chemotherapy treatment did not improve overall survival for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine clinical trial.
Featuring: Charles J. Davidson, MD
The Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive COVID-19 Center provides a multidisciplinary, coordinated approach to treatment for patients with chronic COVID-19 disease. 
Featuring: Priya Kumthekar, MD
An early clinical trial in individuals with glioblastoma, showed an experimental spherical nucleic acid (SNA) drug developed by Northwestern University scientists is able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and trigger the death of tumor cells in the brain.
​Featuring: Lisa D. Wilsbacher, MD, PhD, Matthew DeBerge, PhD, and Edward Thorp, PhD
Inhibiting an inflammatory pathway reduced heart attack-induced damage in experimental models, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
Featuring: Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD
A new Northwestern Medicine study has discovered why Black men die more often of prostate cancer yet also have greater survival benefits from immunotherapy treatments.
Featuring: Susan E. Quaggin, MD
Susan E. Quaggin, MD, has been elected president of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Continuing medical education (CME)

Join leaders in urology, medical oncology, pathology and radiology for a monthly didactic lecture series on critical topics and advances in genitourinary oncology. Lectures will take place via Microsoft Teams on the first and third Thursday of the month at 5:30pm CT.
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 5:00 PM - Thursday, July 22, 2021, 11:00 PM, Virtual Series
The aim of the series is to empower women in leadership and to facilitate career advancement by identifying barriers prevalent in medicine and finding ways to initiate constructive solutions, including the impact of  COVID-19. The series will also allow for networking. There is no cost to attend.​
Friday, June 4, 7 AM to Saturday, June 5, 2021, 6 PM, Skull Base Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois 
Two-day hands-on anatomical dissection with lectures for practicing surgeons, residents and fellows.
For a full list of CME opportunities, visit Continuing Medical Education at Feinberg School of Medicine. 

Clinical Trials

(xIRB) DRUG XPORT-GBM-029: A Phase 1/2 Study of Selinexor in Combination With Standard of Care (SoC) Therapy for Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Glioblastoma

Principal Investigator: Priya Kumthekar, MD 

A Multicenter, Adaptive, Randomized Blinded Controlled Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Investigational Therapeutics for the Treatment of COVID-19 in Hospitalized Adults

Principal Investigator: Babafemi Taiwo, MBBS

Continuous Glucose Monitoring in T2D Basal Insulin Users: The MOBILE Study

Principal Investigator: Grazia Aleppo, MD

Randomized Trial of Retropubic Versus Single-Incision Mid-urethral Sling (Altis™) for Concomitant Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence During Native Tissue Vaginal Repair

​Principal Investigator: Kimberly Sue Kenton​, MD
To view all clinical trials, visit Clinical Trials at Feinberg School of Medicine.