Your skills, aspirations, memories, emotions — the very essence of who you are — all depend on your brain health. At Rush University System for Health, we don’t take the responsibility of protecting it for granted.

Even as we deliver increasingly effective treatments — from specialized procedures that treat medically intractable epilepsy to intensive therapies for depression and PTSD — our clinical and laboratory research will unlock the mysteries of the brain and improve its resilience to age, illness and injury.

Our experts are pushing the boundaries of medicine to deliver the best patient-centered care. With your partnership, we will build upon our legacy of innovation to shape even more solutions that preserve and restore brain health. Will you join us?

The Boundaries We’ll Break

As the incidence of neurological diseases increases, together, we can make advances to improve brain health. Here’s where your gift can change lives:

• Top-Tier Care Without Geographic Boundaries: Provide highly coordinated care from internationally renowned experts and increase accessibility of the latest technological advancements in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and physical medicine and rehabilitation where you live.
• Clinical Excellence: Build upon our strong legacy of innovation in care for strokes, epilepsy, movement disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, spinal cord injury, brain and spinal tumors, and other conditions.
• Multidisciplinary Research to Generate New Knowledge: Accelerate scientific discoveries and fast-track their application to patient care with the expertise of our renowned neuroscientists and physician-scientists.
• Training the Next Generation of Experts: Propel the future of research and specialty care with support for early-career faculty, fellows and trainees. 

Why Rush?

• The Rush Imaging Research Center in the Katie and Brian McCormack Diagnostic Imaging Center is a research-only facility that provides imaging from one of the world’s most advanced MRI scanners and image analysis to advance research and patient care for neurological conditions.
• Rush physician-scientist Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to perform spinal cord transplantation in 1997, and through his recent studies of a stem cell treatment called AST-OPC1, patients with spinal cord injury who previously could not raise their arms can now feed themselves and brush their teeth.
• The Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center is one of 33 Alzheimer’s centers in the U.S. designated by the National Institute on Aging. With more than 200 faculty and staff members and trainees, it is one of the most prolific research groups dedicated to the prevention of common chronic conditions of aging.