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Flashback: Michael Reese Hospital brought skilled healers to a South Side in need – The Chicago Tribune
In 2008, the closing of Michael Reese Hospital was lamented with the sitting of shiva in the home of an alumnus of the institution, a bastion of a South Side with few health care facilities, then or now. Michael Reese “epitomized a different way of practicing...
The Michael Reese Research and Education Foundations renews their commitment to the Michael Reese Pioneer in Research Awards Program at the University of Illinois
The Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation (MRREF) is an instrumental partner with the University of Illinois College of Medicine in fostering innovative discovery. In 2021, the MRREF Board of Directors made a $1 million renewed commitment to the Michael...
Rosalind Franklin University Announces Founding Director of Michael Reese Foundation Center for Health Equity Research
Rosalind Franklin University is proud to announce Founding Director, Dr. Amanda Simanek, Social Epidemiologist at the Michael Reese Foundation Center for Health Equity Research. The center focuses on community engagement, investigator training, and data management,...
After decades in prison, Renaldo Hudson uses art to advocate for change
Renaldo Hudson was nineteen years old when he was sentenced to death for killing an elderly man, L.K Peterson, in an attempted robbery. Renaldo now feels blessed and free to be home after being released from prison after thirty-seven years. Renaldo’s life had been...
Medicine Is Sick: Burnout in healthcare
The United States Surgeon General has issued an advisory about healthcare burnout, and evidence is shown through these three frontline workers and their firsthand accounts on the impacts of burnout. Ed Smalivitz has been in the medical field for 42 years and walked...
Helix – Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation
The Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation recently expanded its commitment to health equality by establishing the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation Center for Health Equity Research at Rosalind Franklin University with an $877,200 grant. The...
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
The Michael Reese Foundation is supporting 2 programs at RFUMS Scholars Program The Foundation is supporting 2 full scholarships for students from underrepresented populations to attend medical school at RFUMS CMS Center for Health Equity Research The Foundation has...
Michael Reese Foundation establishes annual “Meritorious Lectureship Award” at the University of Chicago Medicine
An endowment has been established at the University of Chicago to support an annual lecture honoring a University of Chicago faculty member who embodies the principles of Michael Reese Hospital. Faculty members receiving this award are: Tara Henderson, MD, MPH Dr...
The Michael Reese Foundation was awarded the UIC “Spirit of Medicine” Award
On November 2, 2018 the Dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine awarded the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation the 2018 Spirit of Medicine Award. "Through philantrhopic support to the College of Medicine to create the Michael Reese Endowed...