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Rosalind Franklin University enters 2024 with the knowledge that the trust we build can help create positive…
If you have children, you remember the questions: Boy or a girl? What names have you picked out? What…
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Bradley Hersh, MD ’80, MPH, FACP, has spent more than 30 years traveling the globe as an epidemiologist…
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Funded by the inaugural Elizabeth Shafernich Coulson Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, the…
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Charles Bieleu Nkamga, CMS ’27, is quick to say he knew his trajectory in medicine would take an “untraditional…
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Editor’s Note: Dr. Julie Waites passed away unexpectedly in December 2023. The following conversation…
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When Chicago Medical School (CMS) graduates share who made a meaningful difference in their lives, they…
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RFU’s Interprofessional Community Clinic (ICC) is expanding the services it offers its patients to include…
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“The ICC has come a long way in the last 10 years. During the pandemic, we were limited to telehealth…
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Before presenting a series of slides detailing maternal mortality and morbidity and their relation to…
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Second-year Chicago Medical School student Ruth Londono Alzate’s service in the Peace Corps — along with…
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There are roles we step into in life that unknowingly alter our trajectory. For Shayla Giles, RN, SRNA…
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Cecilia Sorensen, MD, opened the 8th Annual Women in Science and Healthcare (WiSH) Symposium with a disclaimer:…
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Research is a practice that can be an embodied1 approach to make change in the world, giving attention…
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A cross-section of clinical, academic and community partners gathered on Sept. 14 at an open house for…
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Grace E. Stutzmann, PhD, director of RFU’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease and Therapeutics, is…
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Kristin Wiisanen, PharmD, FAPhA, FCCP, joined RFU as dean of the College of Pharmacy in October, succeeding…
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Weihang “Valerie” Chai, PhD, joins RFU as director of the Center for Genetic Diseases in early 2024,…
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The fall of 2023 saw the RFU Board of Trustees expand its roster with the additions of Stephen K. Klasko…
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Bridging the gap between misconception and reality has become an increasingly necessary civic responsibility…
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RFU’s College of Pharmacy and Department of Healthcare Simulation provide second-year pharmacy students…
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A seminal event in the history of the university took place 20 years ago on a frigid Tuesday morning…
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Prior to 2023, the rows of marble sculptures in The Old Library at Trinity College Dublin — a research…