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Careers, College of Health Sciences
You don’t need imaging technology to see the opportunities a medical imaging sciences career provides. See what this career path has to offer!
Patient Care, Innovation
A Rush team of neurological and neurosurgical clinicians is the first in Illinois and among the first in the United States to offer an innovative, noninvasive treatment for medication-refractory tremor: MR-guided focused ultrasound.
Patient Care
Rush and Select Medical Corp. announced a joint venture agreement to manage operations of a critical illness recovery hospital, inpatient rehabilitation hospital and 63 physical therapy centers.
Research
Patients with COVID-19 experience elevated levels of soluble urokinase receptor (suPAR), an immune-derived pathogenic protein that is strongly predictive of kidney injury, according to Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, chairperson of Rush’s Department of Internal Medicine.
Awards & Recognitions, College of Nursing
Three nurses at Rush University Medical Center have been chosen to be fellows of the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program.
Community
With the new school year started and autumn approaching, Rush pediatric infectious disease specialist Colleen Nash, MD, MPH, answers questions parents may have about keeping children safe from COVID, social distancing in the classroom and celebrating Halloween while COVID-19 is still a threat.
Alumni, Rush Medical College
Walter Whisler, MD, PhD, who helped pioneer a surgical technique used worldwide to treat epilepsy and was the founding chairman of Rush’s Department of Neurosurgery, died Sept. 6.
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.
