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The 2015-2017 picture for Northwestern University Department of Surgery is a 53-PI network with 93 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (58% of slots across 49 PIs; 49 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels), and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes as the leading topic (3% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Murad Alam (28.6 weighted works; Body Contouring and Surgery, Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management); Karl Y. Bilimoria (26.4 weighted works; Healthcare Policy and Management, Hospital Admissions and Outcomes). The clearest collaboration lines are Karl Y. Bilimoria and Anthony D. Yang (16 shared works, weight 8.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 14.7, around Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, led by Ankit Bharat, Riad Salem, Shari L. Meyerson; group 2 with 7 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 19.9, around Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, led by Seema A. Khan, Irene Helenowski, Mark K. Eskandari.