Affiliates

Medical students, residents, and fellows on the Chicago campus are trained at some of the nation’s best hospitals, including:

  • Mercy Hospital and Medical Center 
  • Advocate Christ Medical Center
  • Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

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BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS MOVE FORWARD

Moving forward — that’s what researchers at the Institute for Health Research and Policy want to help African American breast cancer survivors do.

Moving Forward is also the name of a community-based weight loss program to improve their survival rate. African American women exhibit higher breast cancer mortality rates than white women; in Chicago the breast cancer mortality rate for black women is 116 percent higher than the rate for white women, says Melinda Stolley, principal investigator of the study and institute researcher. »Follow this link for full story

 

 

Translational Medicine Leaders

Patrica W. Finn

Patrica W. Finn

Department of medicine head Patricia W. Finn, MD, is excited that the College of Medicine has taken such a proactive stance in encouraging translational research. “The basic scientist working on the bench has a lot to offer the clinician,” she says.  More

Save the Date: Sept. 10

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Center for Cardiovascular Research Day 2013

Please plan to join us for the 2013 Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCVR) research day to be held in the College of Medicine Research Building (COMRB) on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
»Details: http://www.ccvr.uic.edu/newsandevents/index.html