Northwestern Memorial Hospital is an academic medical center in the heart of downtown Chicago with physicians, surgeons and caregivers representing nearly every medical specialty. Northwestern Memorial enjoys a teaching and service partnership with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, an integration that provides patients access to leading-edge clinical trials and fosters an environment of world-class patient care, academic inquiry and innovative research. A number of world- and nationally-renowned physicians, surgeons and specialists practice at Northwestern Memorial and U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital among the top 25 in the nation in: Cardiology and heart surgery (No. 7) Geriatrics (No. 9) Neurology and neurosurgery (No. 8) Cancer (No. 12) Ear, Nose & Throat (No. 49) Gastroenterology and GI surgery (No. 30) Gynecology (No. 13) Nephrology (kidney disorders) (No. 35) Orthopaedics (No. 12) Pulmonology (blood) (No. 25) Urology (No. 26)