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Stritch Class of 2026 learns their residency match

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Aspiring physician leader Megi Maci receives President’s Medallion

Megi Maci has been actively involved in multiple leadership roles, community service initiatives, extracurricular activities, and research projects at Stritch. Planning to specialize in Obstetrics and Gynecology, she is driven to improve the health of vulnerable populations and practice medicine in a compassionate, dignified, and human-centered way.

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Chaplain Mentor Program provides formative, real-world training

The program is designed to assist students in recognizing the importance of the personal and spiritual dimension of healthcare by having them spend time with chaplains. All Stritch first-year medical students complete the program as part of their two-semester Patient Centered Medicine 1 course.

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New scholarship aims to help first-generation students jump financial hurdles

The financial burden for a college education can be great, and it can be even greater for medical school and can derail a student’s dream of becoming a physician. The Stritch Dean’s First-Generation Scholarship was created to help reduce that barrier for students who are the first in their families to graduate from college.

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Called to provide compassionate, equitable care

The Jesuit value of “cura personalis” proved its significance for MD/MPH candidate Nathan Dhablania at a young age. Now, the future ophthalmologist envisions a career that integrates clinical practice, research, and service, guided by the same principle that shaped him as a child.

"Stritch prepared me to be an excellent and empathetic physician and researcher, with patients at the center of my medical universe." Sam J. Marzo, MD • Dean, Stritch School of Medicine • Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery

Medical students by the numbers

24

SPECIALTIES MATCHED

35%

MATCHED IN PRIMARY CARE

25

states matched

56%

matched in the Midwest

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RESEARCH NEWS

David Barefield, PhD, in the Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology received R01 NIH grant for project “Specific regulation of cardiac atrial contractility”
Bryan Mounce, PhD, in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology received R35 NIH grant for project “Uncovering and harnessing connected metabolic pathways essential to virus infection”
John Kubasiak, MD, in the Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute received R35 NIH grant for project “Novel Burn Sepsis Prognostic Strategies”
Rocco Gogliotti, PhD, in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Neuroscience received R61 NIH grant for project “Preclinical development of novel site blocking ASOs for the treatment of Rett syndrome”
Emily Anderson, PhD, MPH, in the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics received D43 NIH grant for project “Loyola-Ukrainian Catholic University International Bioethics Research Training Program”
Dorothy Sojka, PhD, in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology received R21 NIH grant for project “Natural Killer Cell Recruitment and Differentiation”

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