Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation is pleased to share that our Program Coordinator/Nurse Clinical Patient Navigator for Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP), Hong Deng, RN, MBA, CN-BN, received the prestigious 2023 Outstanding Community Leadership & Contribution Award from the Midwest Asian Health Association (MAHA)
We recognize Deng’s remarkable dedication and impact in our community. Her commitment to excellence and compassion truly shines through in all she does.
In December, Roseland Hospital celebrated the addition of a 3D mammography van to their oncology services. This mobile mammography unit, generously funded by Washington Square Health Foundation, allows for mammograms to be conducted outside of traditional hospital...
The fundraising totals from the AIDS Run Walk Chicago 2023 are in, and Michael Reese Care Program raised $15,264, making our team one of the event’s Top 4 fundraisers! Thank you to all of those who contributed their time and resources to this worthy cause. We are...
The Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation (MRREF) is an instrumental partner with the University of Illinois College of Medicine (UI COM) in fostering innovative discoveries. In 2021, the MRREF Board of Directors made a $1 million renewed commitment over a...
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 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 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,...
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...
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...
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...