Stories - Community Health 2025

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Leadership Message
By Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD, FASAHP, FNAP, DipACLM

Working in collaborative partnership to improve the health of our communities is one of the most important…

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Partnership in Action
By Sara Skoog

RFU’s Community Care Connection health outreach program continues improving the health of underserved…

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Allies for Access
By Judy Masterson

Rosalind Franklin University and the Lake County Health Department (LCHD) and Community Health Center…

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Lake County Children’s Advocacy Center and RFU Join Forces to Help Young Survivors of Abuse
By Dawn Rhodes

When a 7-year-old child told her mother she had been sexually abused by a family friend hours before…

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Creating a More Diverse CRNA Workforce
By Sara Skoog

The Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program (DNAMP) provides a sense of belonging and inspiration…

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Health Equity: A Commitment to Community
By Amy Knutson Strack

On a bright fall morning in September, a group of changemakers leading health equity initiatives in Lake…

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Beyond the Pause
By Dawn Rhodes

Stephanie Moss, MD, PGY-1 Psychiatry, hit an unexpected roadblock in medical school. It was an experience…

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Finding Robustness
By Margaret Smith

In time, the significant findings of collected data become dogma in our approach and understanding of…

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Creative Force
By Judy Masterson

Chicago Medical School (CMS) Distinguished Alumnus Arthur S. Levine, MD ’64, was considered a “high-risk…

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The X Factor: Investigating Gender Roles in STEM
By Judy Masterson

The 9th annual Women in Science & Healthcare (WiSH) Symposium, held Sept. 26, 2024, investigated how…

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Managing Multiple Medications
By Sara Skoog

At Rosalind Franklin University, education isn’t just for students. Our faculty are lifelong learners…

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“We Need to Intervene”: Casting a Spotlight on Vehicular Crashes image
“We Need to Intervene”: Casting a Spotlight on Vehicular Crashes
By Margaret Smith

Every day across the United States, too many drivers find themselves involved in motor vehicle accidents…

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Through the Microscope: Food and Nutrition as Preventive Medicine
By Nancy Z. Farrell Allen, MS, RDN, FAND

Through the Microscope is a recurring Helix column that poses questions to members of the RFU community…

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Through the Microscope: Closing Gaps With Community Care Connections
By Jeff Espina, MBA

Through the Microscope is a recurring Helix column that poses questions to members of the RFU community…

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Bestselling Author to Keynote 2025 Commencement Physician-scientist and bestselling author Stephen Trzeciak…

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From the Archives: Education and Outpatient Care at Dispensaries in the Early Twentieth Century
By Kelly Reiss

Throughout the first three decades of the Chicago Medical School (CMS), the college operated dispensaries…

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