Stories - Summer 2022

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Leadership Message
By Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD, FASAHP, FNAP, DipACLM, and Ronald S. Kaplan, PhD

Rosalind Franklin University strives to build an environment in which research and our researchers can…

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Editor’s Note

A college writing class was discussing the pitfalls of jumbled phrases and their potential to confuse…

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CyberSole: The Science of Saving Feet
By Sara Skoog

Researchers at RFU’s Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR), in partnership with the…

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Legacy Challenge Continues with Commitment from CMS Alum
By Stephanie Geier

Jeffrey Yessenow, MD ’76, believes that, as much as possible, students should be free to focus on their…

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New Center for Health Equity Research: An Engine for Scholarship and Change
By Judy Masterson

In her first communication as founding director of the new Michael Reese Foundation Center for Health…

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Visualize Health Equity

“Visualize Health Equity: A Community Art Project,” a traveling exhibit produced by the nonprofit National…

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Leading with Virtue
By Sara Skoog

The College of Pharmacy (COP) Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) chapter presented a…

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Building Trust in the Time of COVID
By Judy Masterson

Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health — where, she has said…

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2022 Art From the Benchtop Exhibit, Selected Works

“THE ELDRITCH TERROR,” by OLIVIA POWROZEK CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY Imaged here is Suml49PT, which is a cell…

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Sloan Fellow Blazes New Trails in Neuroscience
By Margaret Smith

Childhood dreams may come and go for some, and for others, still, dreams may adapt and manifest themselves…

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Differing Pathways
By Dawn Rhodes

Keys to Alzheimer’s might vary from male to female. The majority of Alzheimer’s disease patients are…

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Treating 9/11 First Responders: Can Genetics Predict Severity of PTSD? image
Treating 9/11 First Responders: Can Genetics Predict Severity of PTSD?
By Monika Waszczuk, PhD

Last September, people across the United States and the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of the…

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Invisible and Stigmatized: What Unique Health Disparities Affect Bisexual Individuals? image
Invisible and Stigmatized: What Unique Health Disparities Affect Bisexual Individuals?
By Brian A. Feinstein, PhD

Nationally representative surveys reveal that 3% of adults and 6% of adolescents in the United States…

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Finding Solutions When the Need Is Great
By Judy Masterson

A shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic put the…

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New Web-based Simulation Helps Raise Awareness on Potential Delayed Effects of Psychostimulant Use
By Judy Masterson

Gregory Friedman died in 2017 after taking tainted MDMA, also known as ecstasy or molly. Despite seeking…

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‘Perhaps the Greatest Challenge’: How To Get Capital Behind Concepts
By Judy Masterson

Michael Beaubaire, MD, who was named the first Entrepreneur in Residence for Helix 51, is the principal…

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Patent Portfolios Bridge the Gap Between Innovation and the Public Good
By Judy Masterson

Entrepreneur in Residence Peter Paredes, JD, advises Helix 51 incubator companies and other startups…

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Homecoming: Physical Therapy Alum Named New CHP Dean

Lisa L. Dutton, PT, MS ’93, PhD, an alum of RFU’s Department of Physical Therapy whose academic career…

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Care Coach Rolls to Accept AAMC Honor

Efforts by RFU’s Community Care Connection to provide health services and expand COVID-19 vaccination…

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Helix 51 Biomedical Innovation

The life science hub Helix 51 continues to expand its roster of startup, early-stage and international…

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Behavioral Neuroscientist Joins RFU Faculty
By Sara Skoog

Nicole Ferrara, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Brain Science Institute Director Amiel Rosenkranz…

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Documenting a Generation in the CMS Timeline
By Kelly Reiss

For more than 30 years, from 1940 through 1972, CMS published The Chicago Medical School Quarterly three…

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A Deep Dive into Toxic Personalities
By Margaret Smith

Have you ever felt the book you read or movie you watched didn’t go far enough? That it left out the…

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