The University of Chicago Medicine has joined the I3LUNG project, a research initiative funded by a five-year, €10M grant from the European Union to develop a decision-making tool for creating individually tailored lung cancer treatment plans. The project will use artificial intelligence (AI) software and machine learning to analyze a wide range of information from clinical data, radiology images, and biological characteristics of tumors. “This highly innovative project has the goal of using machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict the outcomes of immunotherapy, which is something we are not currently capable of doing,” said Marina Garassino, MD, Professor of Medicine and the leader of … Read More

Arshiya Baig,MD and Alexander Pearson,MD,PhD have been named as the 2022 recipients of the Leif B. Sorensen,MD,PhD Faculty Research Award.  Dr. Baig currently serves as Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine. She is a highly talented investigator conducting community-based research to improve diabetes care and outcomes, with a focus on Latino populations. Dr. Baig uses her community-based research and relationships to innovate and test new interventions to improve Latino health disparities. Dr. Pearson’s research is unique, innovative, and leverages his quantitative background within oncology. There are three primary domains of his research, which include machine learning for … Read More

Sonali M. Smith, MD, the Elwood V. Jensen Professor of Medicine & Chief of the Section of Hematology/Oncology has been selected as the 2022 recipient of DOM Arthur Rubenstein Faculty Mentorship Award. Dr. Smith is an internationally recognized expert in lymphoma therapeutics who has made outstanding contributions to the field through her clinical care, significant scholarship and educational roles, and clinical research. She arrived in the Department of Medicine as a hematology/oncology fellow in 1998 and served as chief fellow for one year. In 2001 she was appointed to the faculty as an instructor. In 2017 she was promoted to … Read More

Sonali Paul, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology  & Nutrition)  is the recipient of the 2022 Department of Medicine Diversity Award. Dr. Paul is a rising star in the field of gastroenterology who practices as a transplant hepatologist and has a passion for promoting health equity. She has fostered pluralism within unity and affirmed  multiple identities that individuals may adopt, with determined and intentional effort to affirm the historically marginalized LGBTQI+ community. She has a strong commitment to reduce the disparities in health and health care delivery to this population and has made tremendous impact on the … Read More

Harvey Golomb, MD, Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology) is the 2022 recipient of the Department of Medicine’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his outstanding work and dedication to the DOM’s tripartite mission.   Dr. Golomb has lived a highly successful life as a translational scientist  later as a leader of ASCO, and institutionally as section chief from 1981 to 1998 , department chair, CMO and in other important roles. An authority on the genetic abnormalities that cause various cancers and on chemotherapy for the leukemias, lymphomas, and lung cancer, Dr. Golomb was among the first physicians in the world to … Read More

The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Mitchell as Associate Executive Administrator and Senior Director of Finance for the Department of Medicine (DOM) effective August 1, 2022.  Mark was selected for this critical role after a national search. Mark received his BS in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and his MPA from Northwestern University in 2009.  He started his career at the University of Chicago 16 years ago as the section administrator in Rheumatology, and took on the role of Director of Post-Award Administration in 2008.  Mark has served as … Read More

The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Pisano, MD as chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health effective July 1, 2022 . For the past year, Dr. Pisano has been serving the Department of Medicine and the Section of Infectious Diseases & Global Health (IDGH) in an interim capacity where she has demonstrated remarkable leadership, fortitude and thoughtful academic vision. Under her leadership, the Section has already realized remarkable success and stability following  the retirements of several faculty with the recruitment of two outstanding faculty members: Dr. Michael Czapka and Dr. Daniel … Read More

Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have sparked interest from governments that would like to use these tools for predictive policing to deter crime. Early efforts at crime prediction have been controversial, however, because they do not account for systemic biases in police enforcement and its complex relationship with crime and society. Data and social scientists from the University of Chicago have developed a new algorithm that forecasts crime by learning patterns in time and geographic locations from public data on violent and property crimes. The model can predict future crimes one week in advance with about 90% accuracy. … Read More

Two Department of Medicine faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships effective July 1, 2022: Marshall Chin, MD, MPH has been named the Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor, and Karen Kim, MD has been named as the Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor. Dr. Chin is renowned for his extraordinary contributions towards advancing health equity. He is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has dedicated his career to advancing health equity through interventions at individual, organizational, community, and policy levels. Through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems … Read More