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Who to contact on the medical beat

Who to contact on the medical beat

Below are contacts for specific topics within the medical beat. Don't see your topic listed below? Email media@northwestern.edu or view all media relations contacts.

Media contacts

Kristin Samuelson (she/her)

kristin.samuelson@northwestern.edu | (847) 491-4888

• Aging, longevity, dementia, SuperAgers, geriatrics
• Emergency medicine
• General internal medicine
• Infectious diseases
• LGBTQ and community health and intervention
• Pulmonology and critical care 
• Medical education
• Medical social sciences
• Nephrology and hypertension
• Neuroscience
• Obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive health
• Orthopaedics
• Otolaryngology/ENT
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Pharmacology
• Physical therapy  and rehabilitation
• Preventive medicine
• Public health
• Radiology

Ben Schamisso (he/him)

ben.schamisso@northwestern.edu | (847) 467-3322

• Allergy and immunology
• Anesthesiology
• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology
• Epidemiology
• Gastroenterology and hepatology
• Hematology
• Nutrition
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Plastic surgery
• Preventive medicine
• Psychiatry and behavioral Sciences
• Rheumatology
• Surgery
• Urology

All

Reach out to either Kristin or Ben for assistance on the following topics:

• Biochemistry and molecular genetics
• Cell & developmental biology
• Microbiology-immunology

Other medical contacts

For hospital-related medical inquiries, contact the following:

• Northwestern Medicine
• Lurie Children's Hospital
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab