MSS
@NUFeinbergMSS
The Department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Shout-out and thank you to Joey McCormack for orchestrating a wonderful end-of-year retreat for the Division of Implementation Science, and to Julie A. Bednark for leading an outstanding professional development workshop! Thank you both for helping MSS shine!
Kudos to David Cella, PhD, for his interview in a recent Newsweek article entitled, "Map Shows States With Best—and Worst—Quality of Life." newsweek.com/map-shows-stat…
Kudos to Andrew Berry, PhD, Kathryn Macapagal, PhD, their MSS/HSIP student, William Liem, and Dept of Communication Studies colleague Dr. Calvin Liang who were awarded $10K from the HCI+D Center in Evanston to do a mini-symposium!
Kudos to Stephanie Young, PhD, who was asked to contribute psychometric analyses to an MFA student's thesis show at SAIC! The show opens today and runs through July 27. Check out Emma Bergman's project here: tinyurl.com/3sr9zev2
📣 Big Announcement! 📣 🚨 It’s here! Agenda's up & registration's open for our Data Design Workshop! 🗓️ Sept 8 & 22 & Oct 8 & 15, 2025 📍 Virtual REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTHAGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR
Shout out to Javin D'Souza and all the Northwestern staff and faculty who marched in the Pride Parade at the end of June! We hope everyone had a happy and safe Pride Month ❤️

🎨 Workshop Alert: Visualizing Health Research. Whether you're preparing for a conference or a grant pitch, this hands-on workshop Sept 8 & 22; Oct 8 & 15 will help you turn your research into visuals that inform and inspire. Learn more: shorturl.at/4tdY1

Kudos to @Rsbeidas, PhD, for her recent interview with Jill Suttie for AIM Youth Mental Health, a foundation that funds research for youth mental health care. Read the interview here now: aimymh.org/why-now-is-the…
Shout out to @andreakgraham, PhD who is currently featured on NU's Research Impact site for submitting a video to their Research Matters campaign! Watch her video here now: shorturl.at/FJzmx
We are proud to celebrate Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, MS, for being selected as a 2025 Fellow of the Implementation Research Institute (IRI)—a national, NIH-funded training program widely regarded as a cornerstone in the field of implementation science. shorturl.at/JGQcU
Kudos to our Financial Coordinator, Eric Gustafson, for his Staff Profile feature in the recent issue of Breakthroughs! Read Eric's profile here: shorturl.at/wl8cH
We're thrilled to share that @EmilyHHo, PhD, Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Department of Medical Social Sciences, has been named to the 2025–2026 LEAP cohort at Northwestern University! Read more: shorturl.at/kJM8B

The Implementation Research Institute (IRI) is an NIH-funded training program held annually at Washington University in St. Louis. This year, representatives from MSS, CDIS, CBITs, and the Lab for Scalable Mental Health were in attendance!

Kudos to William Liem, HSIP PhD student, for being awarded a Digital Justice Seed Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support their dissertation research!

Congratulations to Marquita Lewis, PhD, MPH, MS who will be one of the keynote speakers at The University of Vermont Cancer Center's inaugural Rural Health and Cancer Conference which be held June 19-21, 2025. We're so proud of you!

On @pbsnewshour now discussing federal cuts to critical #LGBTQhealth research grants that use scientific methods to help improve the health of not just the 10% of Americans in this group but findings benefit all. youtu.be/S57q8-MPQrw
Kudos to Eileen Graham, PhD, for being featured in the Spring 2025 edition of Northwestern Magazine! Check out "Sound Off: How to Make Friends — And Why We Need Them" and read Eileen's thoughts on the importance of friendship here now: shorturl.at/7LsbH

Congratulations to Stephanie Ruth Young, PhD, who won the Mensa Education & Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research for her paper, “The International Cognitive Ability Resource: An Open Science Measure Useful for Research with High-Ability Postsecondary Students!”

Kudos to @Rsbeidas, PhD, for being featured in a recent Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) article about her keynote address to the sixth annual Vanderbilt Learning Health Systems (LHS) Symposium on May 13. You can read more about the event here: shorturl.at/ReTsr
Congratulations to Senior Program Coordinator Grace Kim for her recent feature in the May edition of the Breakthroughs Newsletter! We're so proud of you, Grace! Read the full story here now: shorturl.at/a8OAL