RMC Alumni Awards

Stephen M. Korbet, MD, is the Lester and Muriel Anixter Professor of Nephrology and former chief of the Division of Nephrology at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Korbet became a member of the Section of Nephrology at Rush in 1984 and, over the last 35 years, has been extensively involved in clinical research. His areas of interest include renal biopsy, glomerular diseases with a particular focus on lupus nephritis and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and the management of anemia in end-stage renal disease.

Korbet has published extensively with more than 125 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters and has co-edited two books on lupus nephritis. He’s lectured worldwide as a visiting professor and at societal meetings and was named in the “Best Doctors in America” annually for the past 25 years. Korbet is a member of numerous organizations and was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2013.

Anthony M. Kotin, MD, a board-certified internist, is an independent consultant, providing advisory services to consulting firms, health plans and private equity funds. Kotin’s professional career started as an internist in private practice in 1980 and, from there, he co-founded and served as the medical director of a large IPA in the western suburbs of Chicago in 1983. In 1988 he moved into the emerging managed care industry, holding medical officer positions over the next 30 years, including the national CMO role at Travelers, Prudential and Magellan Health. Most recently Kotin was involved with an early-stage, venture-funded company, Complex Care Solutions, later acquired by Inovalon, which provided in-home care management services to Medicare Advantage members and HCC coding support to health plans.

Kotin is an executive council member and immediate past president of the Rush Medical College Alumni Association, and a member of the Rush University Medical Center Board of Trustees.

Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD, FACC, MSCAI is a professor of medicine and pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center. He’s held the position of director of the Coronary Care Unit, fellowship program director, director of the medical practice, and assistant director of the Division of Cardiology.  He is currently the director of Rush’s Center for Adult Structural Heart Disease, and Section Chief of Structural and Interventional Cardiology.  He is also the associate program director of the Rush University Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease, overseeing the training of numerous current and future leaders in academic and clinical cardiology.

Kavinsky is an expert on catheter-based therapies for heart and vascular disease, and an internationally recognized leader in the use of novel treatments for adults with congenital and structural heart disease. He is a Master Fellow in the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, with U.S. News and World Report nationally ranking him as, “Top Doctor” in Interventional Cardiology. Kavinsky serves as associate editor of the Journal of Structural Heart Disease and is Chairman of the Structural Heart Disease Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

Alan A. Harris, MD, is currently the associate chairman in the Department of  Medicine, associate program director of the Internal Medicine residency program, chair of the Department of Medicine Advisory Committee, hospital epidemiologist and senior attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and voluntary physician at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Harris is a professor of Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and the Emeritus James Lowenstine Professor of Internal Medicine in Rush Medical College.

Over the course of his career, Harris has been the vice chair of Academic Affairs and Internal Medicine residency program director in the Department of Medicine and served as chair of the Admissions Committee of Rush Medical College and chair of the Infection Control Committee of Rush University Medical Center. He recently completed a term as the interim director of the Division of Infectious Diseases.

A prior epidemiologist and assistant superintendent of the Municipal Contagious Disease Hospital of the City of Chicago Department of Health, Harris currently serves on the Department of Health Technical Advisory Committee for Communicable Diseases and Bioterrorism. Under the Governorship of James R. Thompson, he served on the Board of Public Health Advisors of the State of Illinois. He is also a Master in the American College of Physicians, a Fellow in the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and a member of the American College of Epidemiology.