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Careers, Graduate College
Congratulations! The graduate school admissions committee has decided your application for admission is strong enough to merit an interview. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back or unleash an enthusiastic fist pump,…
Patient Care
CHICAGO – Patients, doctors, nurses, staff and trustees were joined by government officials and community leaders at Rush University Medical Center on Wednesday to celebrate two landm… Related News View All News…
Awards & Recognitions, RUSH Medical College, Research
The National Institutes of Health recently announced that third-year Rush Medical College student Kathryn Wrobel was accepted to its Medical Research Scholars Program, or MRSP. Wrobel will spend one year at the Nation…
Innovation, Patient Care
Rush University Medical Center is the first hospital in Chicago to use a new technology that enables specially trained physicians to use a single stitch to close an opening between the upper chambers of the heart — a…
About RUSH U
Health sciences education is rapidly evolving, and one of the innovators driving that change is David Katz, PhD, ABPP, vice provost of academic affairs and chief knowledge officer at Rush University. In January, Katz… Related News View All News…
Research
Findings published in the current edition of the journal Science Translational Medicine suggest that a type of white blood cell called tumor associated macrophages that have been deceived by pancreatic canc…
College of Health Sciences
After giving a blood or urine sample at the doctor’s office, you get a call or message about your test results. Maybe you find out about something — like higher cholesterol or lower blood sugar — that you weren’t expe… Related News View All News…
Research
Rush University Medical Center researchers have proposed a rating system that standardizes and combines data from five leading hospital rating systems into an easy-to-understand composite score of one to 10 that will… Related News View All News…
Patient Care, College of Nursing
As a gay man and a nurse practitioner at Rush University Medical Center, Erik McIntosh, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, was surprised when his own primary-care physician neglected to discuss his current and past sexual experiences… Related News View All News…
Research
The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently awarded Rush University System for Health a $2 million grant to establish the Great Lakes Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. The node is one of 18 research centers… Related News View All News…