ENH and University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine Create a New Academic Affiliation Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine have agreed on an academic affiliation that will place medical students, residents and fellows from the University of Chicago Medical Center at the three ENH hospital locations in Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park for a portion of their educational experience.
National survey again names University of Chicago Medical Center to the Honor Roll of Best Hospitals In the 2008 "Best Hospitals" issue (July 21, 2008, on newsstands July 14), U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Chicago Medical Center as 17th out of America's 5,453 hospitals. Because the Medical Center scored highly in so many areas it is featured in the magazine's elite list of "Honor Roll" hospitals.
Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link In the 10 July 2008, issue of Nature, Matt Friedman, graduate student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and a member of the Department of Geology at the Field Museum, draws attention to several examples of transitional forms that he uncovered in museum collections of underwater fossilized creatures from the Eocene epoch--about 50 million years ago.
Largest single health care investment in history of South Side approved by University of Chicago Board The University of Chicago's Board of Trustees gave final approval June 5 for the University of Chicago Medical Center's New Hospital Pavilion--a 21st-century technological and architectural tour de force, designed to accelerate medical progress and to leverage the close collaboration between the University's world-class clinicians and researchers for the benefit of patients. The Medical Center board approved the project on May 28.