Editing Faculty Profiles

New pages can be added by clicking the "+ Add content" button in the upper-right of the Content Overview or navigating the Content menu to Add content > Faculty.

Name 

• First Name: Enter the faculty member's first name and middle initial/name, if present
• Last name: Enter the faculty member's last name(s)
• Professional Suffix: Enter credentials such as MD, PhD, RN, etc.
  • No periods should be used in these abbreviations
• Get Care: Enter a link to the faculty member's clinical profile on rush.edu if they are also a patient care provider

Body  

Use for any additional titles beyond the primary title/academic rank (which will be placed in the Job Title fields at bottom of profile editor.) These may include: 

• Endowed chairs or professorships 
• Academic leadership roles within a department or GME program 
• Faculty appointments in additional departments 
• Clinical care roles within RUSH 

If a faculty member prefers to share their pronouns, please add these to the body field after any additional titles. For example: "Pronouns: She/Her"

Intro

The Accordions offer more space for faculty to showcase their work and background. 

Do not enter anything in the Overarching Title or Blurb fields. Toggle the "Close all" option on.

Use a separate accordion item for any of the following content elements you wish to include, in the following order: 

1. Education: Add relevant education with degree acronym first, followed by a comma and the full name of the school. You may add residencies and fellowships here if you feel it adds context, particularly in GME recruiting.
2. Areas of Expertise
3. Research Areas: Add a description of the faculty member’s research focus in a descriptive list set off by commas. If the faculty member also has a lab page, you may include a link here.
4. Biography: Enter a bio on the faculty member here covering their career and educational/research background. Please keep to a 200-word maximum.
   • Do not use the title Dr. in writing at any time, per RUSH house style ("Jane Smith, MD, PhD has worked at RUSH for 20 years. Smith heads up cancer research.")
5. Honors & Awards: Enter relevant honors, awards and professional society memberships here.
6. Publications: Please use a single, comprehensive PubMed, Google Scholar, etc. link to the faculty member’s work and use this text “View complete list of publications for [Jane Smith, MD] here”.
7. Grants: Share information about current and/or notable past grants.

Sidebar

• Fill in contact details in the fields provided 
• Under Links, add the link text and destination URLs for your link 
  • Use the Add Link with Icon button to add and populate each additional link 
  • Place links using the Link text and the order of the bullet list below 
  • Print Page will appear automatically and does not need to be created 
  • Clinical Profile is moving into the body of the profile, becoming “Get Care From [Faculty Member]” and should not be added to the sidebar 
  • Each link will have an accompanying icon. Search and select the corresponding FontAwesome image in the Icon field: 
    • Research Profile: “flask” 
    • LinkedIn Profile: “linkedin” 
    • X / Twitter: "twitter"
    • Laboratory: “microscope” 
    • Download CV: “download” 
    • Download vCard: “download”

Image

Only recent, official RUSH headshots with the grey background may be used in faculty profiles.

Before uploading, you will need to resize your photo to the following dimensions: 343 pixels wide x 259 pixels high. See more information below.

College, Job Title, Department/Division/Section, Programs

These fields help classify faculty appropriately for the faculty search engine.

• College: Should be one of RUSH’s three colleges: 
  • College of Health Sciences 
  • College of Nursing
  • RUSH Medical College 
  • Should not be set to RUSH University or left blank.
• Job Title: Use for the academic rank (e.g. Professor, Associate Professor, Instructor). Any additional titles should be placed in the Body field.
• Department: Should be the department appearing after that academic rank title in the current profile 
  • There are two additional related dropdowns for Division and Section as well. These will be optional values, only populated when relevant.
• Programs: Populate this area with as many items as needed to represent each degree program, residency or fellowship where the faculty member teaches. Certain non-academic programs can be included as well such as the RUSH Research Mentoring Program.

Please note: With the exception of job title, these are search fields, not text fields. If you start typing in this field and the value you want to include does not auto-complete, do not type text in freehand or the system will show an error. This indicates that there’s a mismatch between how the field is programmed and how you’re trying to use it. Please contact the administrator to explain the issue and get it resolved.

Faculty profile photos use a landscape/horizontal orientation. Vertically oriented portraits do not work in the faculty profile template.

It is important that you resize photos to exactly 343 pixels wide x 259 pixels high before uploading them to the profile. If you do not follow these dimensions, even though your photo may look fine while viewing the profile, it will be blurred and distorted in faculty list pages, or may make those pages appear ragged and uneven.

To access existing profile pictures, please visit the headshot library and search inside the library by name for the faculty member.

If your faculty member needs a new picture, have them contact RUSH Production Group at (312) 942-8278 or use the scheduling tool to set up a time for a quick shoot.

Photos may not be used in profiles and will be removed if they:

• were provided by a faculty member from their own collection
• were taken in any context besides a studio session with the RUSH Production Group
• were taken by RUSH many years ago and still use the brown background
• are vertically oriented (taller than they are wide)

Picture sizing

Below are the steps for finding a profile picture and preparing it for the site:

1. In the headshot library, search for the faculty member by name. Faculty headshots for use on the University site look alike, with the same grey background and dimensions. There are other styles of headshots in the media library, but you may only use the ones with the grey background and landscape orientation for the faculty profiles.
2. Once you find the headshot you’re looking for, click the downward arrow icon below it. A pop-up window will appear; keep the dropdown set to Original and then click Download. This will save the photo onto your computer.
3. Resize the photo to 343 x 259 pixels. You may use any application you like for this work, such as Photoshop. If you do not have a photo editing tool, you can use an online source like Pixlr.
4. Once done, please run profile pictures through and optimization application (Optimizilla or Squoosh) to compress them to save space on the site.

If you are not comfortable with cropping and resizing pictures, detailed instructions are available in our training video on this topic.

Faculty pages follow the same editorial workflow as other pages.

You may work on a new or existing profile as much as you’d like and click Save to preserve your work without it going live on the site.

When you’re ready to publish, add a revision log message and change the status to Needs Review before saving.

This automatically notifies the website administrator that the profile is awaiting review and publication. It may undergo copy and/or style editing as part of this process. You will receive an email notification when the edits are live on the website.