Dean's Media
Dean Neilson offers his perspective and insights through a variety of publications at Feinberg, Northwestern Medicine and our greater Chicago community.
August 23, 2021 | Chicago Tribune
How Can We Let Medical Research Funds Wither?
This editorial explores the importance of financially protecting the National Institutes of Health to ensure we have a healthy future.
July 29, 2020 | Science Advances
Medical Education in the Time of COVID-19
The persistence of SARS-Cov-2 may fundamentally alter the landscape of medical education and hospital training, according to this Northwestern Medicine editorial.
September 10, 2019 | JAMA
Medical Education 2020—Charting a Path Forward
This editorial explores the importance of MD curricula that prioritizes the carefully considered skills and competencies students and trainees will need to modernize clinical practice.
May 2, 2017 | JAMA
Teaching Medical Students About Conflicts of Interest
This editorial explores the need for MD curricula that educates students about potential influences, bias, and their consequences, as well as how to identify, evaluate, and manage potential conflicts.
June 2016 | Feinberg Office of Diversity & Inclusion's "Pathways to Medicine" Series
Pathway to Medicine: Eric Neilson
This story series features Neilson's recollection of how he became a doctor.
July 30, 2013 | Crain's Chicago Business
Faculty foundation doctors vote to join Northwestern Memorial
An announcement of the merger of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.
September 5, 2012 | Chicago Sun Times
A choice: Save Prentice or save lives, add jobs and research dollars
A proposal to make the old Prentice Women's Hospital a Chicago landmark threatens to prevent Northwestern University from building a new facility that would bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funds. That would in turn thwart the creation of thousands of jobs, obstruct lifesaving medical science and block plans to make the city a global hub for jobs fueled by technology and innovation.
August 16, 2012 | Crain's Chicago Business
Prentice building proposal ignores Northwestern's research needs
A proposal to make the old Prentice Women's Hospital a Chicago landmark threatens to prevent Northwestern University from building a new facility that would bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funds. That would in turn thwart the creation of thousands of jobs, obstruct lifesaving medical science and block plans to make the city a global hub for jobs fueled by technology and innovation.