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Rush Medical College, Research
Rush Medical College will be leading one of 21 teams receiving significant funding in hopes of making major advances in the fight against Parkinson’s disease.
Research
Rush University Medical Center is recruiting participants for a nationwide trial of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford in England and AstraZeneca, a multinational pharmaceutical company.
Alumni, College of Health Sciences
Kathryn Dietmann Bernotavicius, MHA, RVT, has built a career on her training in vascular ultrasound technology - and now helps other Rush graduates follow in her footsteps.
Community
If you’re a 501(c)3 nonprofit that serves Black and Latinx Chicago neighborhoods and had access to between $10,000 and $100,000 to conduct a COVID-19 project that supports your community, what would you do with the money?
Awards & Recognitions, College of Nursing
The Illinois Nurses Foundation recently chose eight nurses and nursing faculty members at Rush University Medical Center among its 2020 40 Under 40 Emerging Nurse Leader Award winners.
College of Nursing, Awards & Recognitions
Rush University has named Christine M. Kennedy, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for academic programs at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, the fifth John L. and Helen Kellogg Dean of the Rush University College of Nursing.
Patient Care
Rush University Medical Center, supported by the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation, has produced a series of educational materials to train health care professionals in mothers’ own milk feeding practices in neonatal intensive care units worldwide.
Patient Care, Rush Medical College
Fewer people would die of colorectal cancer if health care providers adopted a new model of screening that combines better risk assessment, more options for noninvasive testing and more targeted referrals for colonoscopy.
Research
To help increase breastfeeding among premature infants, researchers at Rush University Medical Center will test the effects of an intervention that addresses barriers to breastfeeding.
Research
Five junior faculty members at Rush University will receive grant support for their research.