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NQUIRES Research Fellowship

Northwestern University’s Northwestern Quality Improvement, Research & Education in Surgery (NQUIRES) offers mentorship, lectures, collaboration and support for postdocs interested in surgical outcomes, health services and health policy research for surgical residents to pursue during their research years.

Research fellows can earn a Masters or PhD degree that bests suits their needs through one of the programs offered at Northwestern.

Prior fellows have had very successful research experiences, including numerous presentations (e.g., American Surgical Association, American College of Surgeons), first-author publications (e.g., JAMA, Annals of Surgery), and successful grant acquisitions (e.g., NIH, American Cancer Society).

The work done during the fellowship has launched successful research careers and has helped residents secure coveted clinical fellowships, faculty positions and extramural funding. NQUIRES helps to prepare fellows for a career in academic surgery with a focus on national surgical healthcare issues.

Independent of funding source, all surgical postdocs are welcome to participate in NQUIRES.

Two approaches are suggested for interested residents:

  1. Directly contact faculty who you wish to work with. They can help navigate funding sources.
  2. Apply to specific training grants. Examples of funding sources are listed below for interested residents:

For questions or inquires about the application process, please contact Salva Balbale at salva.balbale@northwestern.edu or Jeana Springmann at jeana.springmann@nm.org.

Current Fellows

Meet our current fellows and see their research interests here

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Past Fellows

See a list of our past fellows and where they are now

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Available Funding

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