The Provost's Research Seminar Series is held on the second Tuesday of each month from 1 - 2 p.m. Seminars will be held virtually until further notice. Presentation videos are available.
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| Date | Speaker Name | Speaker Institution | Title of Presentation |
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| 3/12/2024 | Robert S. Wilson, PhD | 2024 Denis A. Evans Lectureship Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, RMC Division of Behavioral Sciences Neuropsychologist, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center |
Life Experience and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease |
| 2/13/2024 | John W. Burns, PhD | Professor, Department Of Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences, Division Of Behavioral Sciences | Chronic Pain: Another Look at Causes and Treatments |
| 01/09/2024 |
Faculty Presentation |
Bioinformatics Advancements at RUSH | |
| 12/12/2023 | The William A. Hark, MD/Susanne G. Swift Professor & Chairman Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center Vice Dean for Research, Rush Medical College Co-Director and MPI, ITM |
ITM 3.0: Advancing Health Toward Health Equity in Metropolitan Chicago | |
| 11/14/2023 |
Faculty Presentation |
Black Girls Move: A Daughter/Mother Intervention to Prevent Obesity Among Black Adolescent Daughters Using Public Health Critical Race Praxis | |
| 09/12/2023 | Baylor College of Medicine | Developing genetic therapies for rare and common skeletal diseases | |
| 04/11/2023 | George Fitchett, DMin, PhD |
Faculty Presentation
College of Health Sciences, Rush University
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Making Spiritual Care a Routine Part of Care for People with Serious Illness: Recommendations from a JAMA Systematic Review |
| 3/14/2023 | 2023 Denis A. Evans Lectureship | Dementia Identification and Care in the Health System | |
| 01/10/2023 |
Faculty Presentation
Rush Medical College, Rush University
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Can We Target Pain in Osteoarthritis?
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| 12/13/2022 |
Faculty Presentation
College of Nursing, Rush University
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Educating About the Health and Health Care of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: The Application of Research and Scholarship to Teaching
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| 11/18/2022 |
Case Western Reserve University
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Mechanisms of Information Representation in Cortical Brain Regions
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| 10/11/2022 |
Bryan Killinger, PhD
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Faculty Presentation
Graduate College, Rush University
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Mapping alpha-Synuclein Interactions for Human Synucleinopathologies
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| 9/13/2022 |
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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The Neuroscience of Human Communication: Seeing Faces and Hearing Voices
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| 8/9/2022 | Jordan Grafman, PhD | Northwestern University | Searching for God in the Human Brain |
| 7/12/2022 | Majid Afshar, MD, MSCR | University of Wisconsin | Data-Driven Strategies for Identification of Substance Misuse in Hospitalized Patients |
| 6/14/2022 | Michael A. Curran, PhD | The UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Hypoxia Drives Tumor Immune Suppression and Immunotherapy Resistance |
| 5/10/2022 |
Faculty Presentation
College of Health Science, Rush University
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Health and Economic Consequences of Human Milk Feedings for Very Preterm Infants and Implications for Health Equity Research | |
| 4/12/2022 |
Denis A . Evans Lectureship
Rush University
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Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease: The Contributions of the Chicago Health and Aging Project | |
| 3/8/2022 | Dawood Darbar, MBChB, MD | University of Illinois at Chicago | Personalizing Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation |
| 2/08/2022 | Shafi Kuchay, PhD | University of Illinois at Chicago | Ubiquitin Proteasome System and Compartmental Protein Turnover Regulation |
| 1/11/2022 | University of Illinois at Chicago | Pragmatic Research Addressing Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis | |
| 12/14/2021 |
The University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Poly (ADP-ribose) and Neural Cell Death in Stroke | |
| 11/9/2021 | Jindan Yu, MD, PhD | Northwestern University | HOXB13 Loss of Function in Aggressive Prostate Cancer and Opportunities for Therapeutic Targeting |
| 10/12/2021 |
Faculty Presentation
Rush Medical Collge, Rush University
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Gut-Microbiota-Brain Axis in Parkinson Disease |