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

Yun Fang, PhD, has received a 7-year, $5.6-million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop nanoparticle treatments for diseased blood vessels. The grant is an R35 Emerging Investigator Award from the NIH, designed to promote scientific productivity and innovation by providing long-term support and increased flexibility to researchers. Fang, an Associate Professor of Medicine (Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care), studies how cells sense and convert environmental mechanical stimuli into biological signals and develops new nanomedicine approaches that target disruptions in these systems that lead to vascular disease. Vascular diseases, … Read More

Approximately 40,000 oncology professionals from around the world gathered June 3-7, 2022—both in-person in Chicago and virtually—to share the latest clinical cancer advances in every area of cancer research at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. This event was especially exciting for the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center because one of their cancer leaders, Everett Vokes, MD, FASCO, was front and center of the meeting as President for the 2021-2022 term. Vokes is an internationally renowned expert in the treatment of head and neck and lung cancers. He is the John E. Ultmann Professor, chair of the Department of Medicine, and … Read More