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UrduThe AbbVie Foundation, a nonprofit working to advance health equity, is donating $75 million to UChicago Medicine to support the $815 million cost to construct a state-of-the-art cancer care pavilion, the first and only freestanding facility of its kind in Illinois.
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Iris Romero named inaugural Executive Vice Dean in UChicago’s Biological Sciences Division
Iris Romero, MD, MS, will be the inaugural Executive Vice Dean (EVD) of the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. Romero is currently the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Illinois Tech’s Institute of Design and UChicago Medicine’s innovation unit sign multi-year agreement to drive change in how and where healthcare is delivered
A new collaboration between the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech and an innovation unit at the University of Chicago Medicine aims to change how South Side patients, healthcare providers and communities deliver and receive medical care. This two-year effort brings together ID’s Equitable Healthcare Lab, which uses design methods to examine health systems processes and develop inclusive strategies and solutions, with UChicago Medicine’s Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation (HDSI).
UChicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine calls for discussion on ratings system as it withdraws from U.S. News rankings
The Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago announced that it will not participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Medical Schools” ranking next year due to concerns about the publication’s methodology and the impact the ratings system has on ensuring equity in medical education.
UChicago Medicine receives Magnet re-accreditation for excellence in nursing
UChicago Medicine has received a four-year renewal of its Magnet designation, the highest national honor that recognizes quality patient care and excellence in the professional practice of nursing.
Molecular Alteration May Be Cause — Not Consequence — of Heart Failure
Clinicians and scientists have long observed that cells in overstressed hearts have high levels of the simple sugar O-GlcNAc modifying thousands of proteins within cells. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found evidence in mouse experiments that these excess sugars could well be a cause, not merely a consequence or marker of heart failure.