Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Message from the Fellowship Program Director

Katrina Burns, MD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Program Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Rush University Medical Center is a place that feels like home—welcoming, warm, inclusive, and a place where you are valued and recognized. We cherish this and many other distinguishing aspects about Rush. Our Consultation-Liaison attending physicians place an emphasis on mentorship and the fellow’s personal goals in education and development as a psychiatrist. Our diverse and clinically robust educational curriculum possesses the ingredients needed to produce a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist that is academically and clinically well-rounded, confident, collaborative and compassionate. A few highlights of our fellowship include customizable selective opportunities that facilitate experience and knowledge acquisition in a variety of sub-specialties in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry; weekly protected time for didactics and quality improvement/scholarly activity; faculty with broad areas of expertise; and an opportunity to see complex and rare conditions in a setting that is nationally distinguished for quality and excellence of care.

Our welcome message would not be complete without highlighting our most recent accomplishments as a Medical Center:

• September 2025 - Rush Remains Among Nation's Best in Vizient Quality Rankings 
  For the 13th consecutive year, Rush University Medical Center has been ranked as one of the 10 top-performing academic medical centers by Vizient, a member-owned nonprofit organization that more that 1,400 hospitals use to improve patient care (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-remains-among-nations-best-vizient-quality-rankings).
   
• July 2025 - Rush Again Ranked Among Nation's Best Hospitals 
  Rush University Medical Center has been recognized once again as one the nation's premier health care providers, earning a spot on U. S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals Honor Roll for the sixth straight year (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-again-ranked-among-nations-best-hospitals).
   
• May 2025 - Rush University Medical Center Earns 10th Straight Leapfrog A
  For the 10th time in a row, Rush University Medical Center has received the highest possible rating from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit health care watchdog organization that grades hospitals on the quality and safety of care they provide (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-university-medical-center-earns-10th-straight-leapfrog).

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