Chair's Message

Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Set in the heart of downtown Chicago, between the shores of Lake Michigan and the Magnificent Mile of Michigan Avenue, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago offer a spectacular location and environment for clinical care, investigation and education.

Our department has the shared goal of advancing the practice of pathology to benefit patient care, while pursuing a greater understanding of disease through investigation, primarily through laboratory-based methods. We are a large, diverse and talented faculty within three major divisions, albeit with major interfaces and overlaps: Anatomic Pathology (AP), Clinical Pathology (CP) and Experimental Pathology. As you dig deeper into our department, you will see we are highly subspecialized in our medical subspecialties, clinical services and laboratory testing and that we have translational and scientific expertise that covers a wide range.

Our faculty are deeply engaged in educating and mentoring medical students in the first two years, and many serve in leadership roles. We also encourage students to spend time in our department for a two-week selective, a four-week elective or for their Area of Scholarly Concentration, in order to become more familiar with the practice of pathology and its substantial impact on clinical care, both in establishing a diagnosis and in lab management. MD/PhD students often gravitate toward Pathology because our discipline is so academically inclined.

We have outstanding training programs in pathology that include a highly competitive Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency, a Physician-Scientist Training Program and a wide variety of subspecialty fellowship programs in AP and CP. Our faculty with research programs provide an investigative environment for the training of medical and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across many areas of investigation, with strengths in cancer, inflammation and immunity, cell biology and neurodegenerative disease. We have a T32 training grant within the department focused on carcinogenesis.

Please review our website and then plan a visit to our department, or reach out to one of us to learn more. We think you will be impressed.

Our Vision

The vision of the Department of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is to be a nationally visible and vibrant academic department that:

• Incorporates advanced laboratory and diagnostic technologies and platforms that define and advance the standards of patient care
• Attracts and retains the most talented and creative trainees, faculty and staff
• Provides a setting for laboratory-based science to flourish for a deeper understanding of disease
• Maintains a culture that values teamwork, safety, innovation, lifelong learning and professional growth and development