feinberg school of medicine feinberg school of medicine northwestern university feinberg school of medicine is the medical school of northwestern university and is located in the streeterville neighborhood of chicago, illinois. founded in 1859, feinberg offers a full-time doctor of medicine degree program, multiple joint degree programs, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education. northwestern university feinberg school of medicinetypeprivateestablished1859 (lind university medical department)1863 (chicago medical college)1870 (affiliation with northwestern)1906 (northwestern university medical school)2002 (current name)parent institutionnorthwestern universityendowmentus$3.0 billiondeaneric g. neilsonacademic staff4,766students3,656 total666 mdpostgraduates915 graduate professional/mastersdoctoral students498 phdother students511 ]ost-doctoral fellows1,266 residents and fellowslocationchicago, illinois, u.s.41.8963°n 87.6193°w﻿ / 41.8963; -87.6193campusurbanwebsitewww.feinberg.northwestern.edu feinberg ranked 12th among american medical schools for research by u.s. news & world report in 2023. it also is committed to patient care and community service. through clinical affiliates northwestern memorial hospital, the ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago, and the shirley ryan abilitylab (formerly rehabilitation institute of chicago), feinberg faculty provide patient care to tens of thousands of individuals every year. feinberg and its clinical affiliates are together an $11 billion academic medical enterprise. the school has 4,766 faculty members. history hosmer johnson, nathan smith davis, ralph isham, edmund andrews, david rutter and william byford co-founded the medical department of lind university on october 11, 1859. it was renamed the chicago medical college in 1863, and affiliated with northwestern university in 1870. the woman’s medical college of chicago, established in 1870 as the woman’s hospital medical college, became affiliated with northwestern in 1892 as northwestern university woman’s medical school. the college closed in 1902 as other schools in chicago and the nation began accepting women. in 1906, the chicago medical college was renamed northwestern university medical school. it had occupied buildings on the near south side of chicago from 1863 until the montgomery ward memorial building was constructed in streeterville in 1926. the montgomery ward memorial building at the feinberg school of medicine northwestern university medical school was renamed the feinberg school of medicine in 2002, reflecting a $75 million donation from the joseph and bessie feinberg foundation. reuben feinberg started to donate to the university after being hospitalized at northwestern memorial hospital for a heart attack. the first donation, in 1988, was for $17 million to establish the feinberg cardiovascular research institute. a $10 million donation was subsequently sent in 1996 to establish the frances evelyn feinberg clinical neurosciences institute. on september 1, 2013, northwestern medical faculty foundation, the medical school's physician's group, joined northwestern memorial healthcare (nmhc), the health system that includes northwestern memorial hospital, forming a new physician's group called northwestern medical group. together, nmhc and feinberg jointly share the brand "northwestern medicine." on may 8, 2015, exactly 90 years after northwestern university first broke ground on its chicago campus, feinberg broke ground on the louis a. simpson and kimberly k. querrey biomedical research center. the building opened in june 2019 and added more than 625,000 square feet and 12 stories of research space to the downtown campus. academic medical center the feinberg school of medicine is part of the mcgaw medical center of northwestern university. other mcgaw members include: anne & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago northwestern memorial hospital shirley ryan abilitylab (formerly rehabilitation institute of chicago) jesse brown va medical center (formerly va chicago health care system) feinberg medical students and mcgaw residents receive their clinical training at these hospitals, where nearly all the attending staff members have faculty appointments at the feinberg school of medicine. residents also train at affiliates such as john h. stroger jr hospital of cook county, northwestern medicine lake forest hospital, swedish covenant hospital, macneal hospital, and methodist hospital in gary, indiana. the medical school's primary teaching hospital is northwestern memorial hospital, a 2,200,000-square-foot (200,000 m2) modern hospital that was completed in 1999. in the 2022 u.s. news & world report list of "honor roll" hospitals, listing the top ten medical centers in the united states, northwestern memorial hospital is ranked ninth, and first in illinois and the shirley ryan abilitylab was ranked first in the country for rehabilitation. education the feinberg school of medicine is home to 657 medical students. the class of students who graduated in 2022 are the 163rd graduating class. for the 2022 entering class, 8,073 people applied for 150 seats. the median undergraduate gpa and mcat score for successful applicants are 3.92 and 520, respectively. in 2012, feinberg's entering medical students began a new curriculum, organized into three phases and emphasizing integration of four main curricular elements: science in medicine, clinical medicine, health & society, and professional development. the goal of the renewal process is to build a more learner-centered educational program that (1) fully integrates scientific principles in a clinical context; (2) stimulates inquiry and investigation; (3) has an assessment system that comprehensively evaluates student achievement in each of the core competencies; (4) reinforces a culture of learning, teamwork, and excellence; (5) is flexible and able to meet the unique needs of individual students as they learn and differentiate. for medical students, the school offers four-year dual degree programs, which combine the doctor of medicine (md) degree with a master of public health (mph), a master of arts in medical humanities and bioethics (ma), a master of science in healthcare quality and patient safety (ms), or a master of business administration (mba). students electing to pursue the additional degrees enroll in evening classes and graduate with both degrees. two md/phd programs are offered, one in combination with northwestern university's graduate school (medical scientist training program) and one with the university's institute for neuroscience. the school also offers graduate degree programs, some in combination with other northwestern university professional schools: doctor of philosophy (phd) in basic science programs such as biological sciences and clinical psychology, and public health programs such as health and biomedical informatics, health services and outcomes research, epidemiology, and translational outcomes science doctor of physical therapy (dpt) master of medical science (mmsc) in physician assistant studies master of public health (mph) master of science (ms) in programs such as epidemiology and biostatistics, clinical investigation, genetic counseling, regulatory compliance, or healthcare quality and patient safety master of medical informatics (mmi) master of prosthetics and orthotics (mpo) additionally, the school offers a bs/md degree through the honors program in medical education (hpme), a seven-year combined undergraduate and medical school program. research according to public financial data for feinberg, support for competitive research grants from all external sources totaled $650 million in academic year 2021–2022. in 2022, feinberg ranked 15th for nih funding among american medical schools. the medical school houses more than 30 core facilities, including a bioinformatics consulting core, genomics core and human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cell core. faculty in the research program at feinberg study and mentor in a range of areas, including cancer biology, cell biology, chemical biology, drug discovery, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, medical biology, immunology, microbial pathogenesis, neuroscience, pharmacology, structural biology, biochemistry, epigenetics, epidemiology, behavioral sciences, preventive medicine, epidemiology, health outcomes, quality improvement, and translational sciences. recent growth in june 2019, the university opened a $560 million, 625,000 square-foot biomedical research building on the chicago campus. the new building, the louis a. simpson and kimberly k. querrey biomedical research center, is connected to the existing robert h. lurie medical research center. a second phase of build out will eventually total 1.2 million square feet in the new building when complete. additionally, more than 250,000 square feet of space in existing campus buildings has been converted to new laboratory space. nobel laureates john eccles, an australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, received the 1963 nobel prize in physiology or medicine with andrew huxley and alan lloyd hodgkin for their fundamental work on the synapse. eccles was a professor at feinberg from 1966 to 1968. robert furchgott, a graduate of the class of 1940, received the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1998 for his co-discovery of the role of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule. ferid murad, an american pharmacologist and cell biologist, received the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1998, along with robert f. furchgott and louis j. ignarro, for demonstrating that nitroglycerin and related drugs worked by releasing nitric oxide into the body, which relaxed smooth muscle by elevating intracellular cyclic gmp. murad was an adjunct professor at feinberg from 1988 to 1998. rankings in 2023, feinberg was ranked 12th among american medical research schools by u.s. news & world report. the school is ranked 15th in the national institutes of health funding rankings among all american medical schools. the school's major affiliated teaching hospitals rank in u.s. news & world report's best hospitals 2022-2023 as follows: shirley ryan abilitylab, ranked first in the nation for physical medicine and rehabilitation hospitals northwestern memorial hospital, ranked ninth in the nation of america's best hospitals ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago, nationally ranked in 10 specialties notable alumni nicholas senn, class of 1868, an early surgeon-scientist and founder of the association of military surgeons of the united states. he was a former president of the american medical association in 1897. mary harris thompson, class of 1870, ad eundem, first female surgeon in chicago and first female surgeon at cook county hospital. founder of the mary thompson hospital james r. walker, class of 1873, joined the united states indian service and spent his professional life caring for and describing the society and norms of the lakota, becoming an early scholar of indian life as reported in his book the sun dance and other ceremonies of the oglala division of the teton dakota. sarah hackett stevenson, class of 1874, the first female member of the american medical association (ama), head of the illinois state medical society's committee on progress in physiology, and a leader and advocate for the emancipation of women and for the equal treatment of men and women. roswell park, class of 1876, surgeon for whom roswell park comprehensive cancer center in buffalo, new york, is named franklin h. martin, class of 1880, former director-general of the american college of surgeons and founding editor of surgery, gynecology, and obstetrics john addison fordyce, class of 1881, american dermatologist whose name is associated with fordyce's spot, angiokeratoma of fordyce, brooke–fordyce trichoepithelioma, fordyce's disease, fordyce's lesion, and fox–fordyce disease daniel hale williams, class of 1883, performed the first successful pericardial heart surgery in america; only african-american charter member of the american college of surgeons charles horace mayo, class of 1888, founder of mayo clinic carlos montezuma, class of 1889, one of the first native americans to receive a doctor of medicine degree from any school, and founder of the society of american indians joseph bolivar delee, class of 1891, an american physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics. delee founded the chicago lying-in hospital, where he introduced the first portable infant incubator. anne hazen mcfarland, class of 1891 woman's medical college, physician specializing in neurology, medical journal editor isaac arthur abt, class of 1891, among the first american physicians to specialize in pediatrics, author of the major pediatric textbook of the first decades of the 20th century george e. hoyt, class of 1892, member of the wisconsin state assembly and the wisconsin state senate george jewett, class of 1893, first african-american medical student who simultaneously played collegiate football in the big 10. in his honor, the george jewett trophy is a rivalry trophy awarded each time northwestern plays michigan in football. a. wilberforce williams, class of 1894, african american doctor and journalist emma ann reynolds, class of 1895, superintendent of training at provident hospital training school for nurses, physician in residence at paul quinn college, and the first african american woman to receive a doctor of medicine degree from northwestern university howard t. ricketts, class of 1897, discovered bacteria of the genus rickettsia, and identified the cause and methods of transmission of rocky mountain spotted fever henry stanley plummer, class of 1898, internist, endocrinologist and one of the founding partners of the mayo clinic. considered to be the architect of the modern medical practice. the plummer building on the mayo clinic campus was named after him, as were plummer-vinson syndrome and plummer’s nails. allen b. kanavel, class of 1899, founder, regent, and president of the american college of surgeons, internationally recognized as founder