Northwestern Memorial is one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, with expertise in cardiovascular services, women's health, oncology, the neurosciences, orthopedics, transplantation, gastrointestinal disease, psychiatry and infectious diseases. As a major referral center, patients have access to advanced diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, and to physicians who serve on the faculty of Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University and participate in both medical education and research programs.