This issue of Helix is set to publish as we prepare to celebrate Commencement and continue to reflect on an excellent outcome for our annual Match Day…
As he entered his 40s, a survivor of a childhood brain tumor shared a story: He had recently gone in for a checkup with the doctor he had been going to…
The Interprofessional Community Clinic (ICC), which will celebrate its 10th anniversary this fall, was founded by four Chicago Medical School students…
Medical Interpretation is crucial to patient/provider interaction at the Interprofessional Community Clinic, where 74% of patients use Spanish interpreters…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT could help unfetter the future of education, work and practice. Powered by algorithms, the…
Emergency medical services in the United States are “under siege” says Martin Pelletier, CMS ’26. The COVID-19 pandemic and its strain on emergency health…
The five years that Meredith “Misty” Fils, MS ’14, PA-C, lived and worked in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, was an immersion in community and the…
Raised a Sephardic Jew in a close and loving Spanish- and Ladino-speaking family, Misty Fils, MS ’14, PA-C, was mocked, bullied and ostracized as a school…
RFU and Lake Forest College received a $1 million gift in early 2023 from The Grainger Foundation to support scholarships for RFU’s novel Nursing Education…
Chicago Medical School’s Mini Medical School Program, now in its second year, gives fourth and fifth graders from A.J. Katzenmaier Academy (AJK) in North…
Elliot Rubinstein, MD ’69, and wife P.A. Rubinstein credit Chicago Medical School — and one historic snowstorm — for a lifetime of good fortune. From…
One of the fascinating aspects of health care is that it encompasses different health systems — many of which are physical systems — yet spiritual health…
Between 2014 and February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine was localized; civilian and military assistance requirements were met by the government, civil society…
From studying lobsters as an undergraduate to analyzing heme analogues for treatment of neonatal jaundice, Elizabeth Bundock, MD ’01, PhD ’99, has been…
There was a time in life for Briana Zabierek when Saturday mornings meant bowling with her middle school friends. What began then as weekend joy on the…
The decade-long partnership between RFU and DePaul University expanded in 2022 to include a new focus on artificial intelligence. This builds on the foundation…
RFU Scientist Awarded $2.36 Million for Anxiety Treatment Research Joanna Dabrowska, PhD, PharmD, an associate professor in RFU’s Center for Neurobiology…
I was born in Chicago and raised on the South Side in a neighborhood called Marynook (83rd and Kenwood). The neighborhood was full of young families, resulting…
The devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 killed more than 50,000 people, and left millions of survivors in desperate…