Professor Linda Van Horn named Acting Chair of Preventive Medicine.
After receiving her doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Dr. Van Horn joined the Northwestern faculty in 1983.

Distinguishing herself as a clinical nutrition epidemiologist, she has made major contributions to many of her department's renowned multicenter, collaborative trials. Dr. Van Horn also has assumed increasing leadership roles both inside and outside the University including serving as associate dean for faculty development at the Feinberg School for the past two years, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association since 2003, a member of the American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee, and past member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Committee. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Van Horn to her newest leadership position.

An active search for the permanent chair of preventive medicine will begin in 2008, with the goal of welcoming the new department leader in 2009.
Depression Raises Risk of Diabetes
Mercedes Carnethon's recently published article, concerning depression's effects on diabetes, in The Archives of Internal Medicine has gained enormous publicity. An article about her study can be found in the New York Times.
Evidence-Based Practice

Bonnie J. Spring, the Director of Behavioral Medicine and Professor of Preventive Medicine is bringing Evidence-Based Practice into Behavioral Medicine. Read all about it in an article on the Feinberg site.