Department Overview

Neurology at Cook County Hospital

Faculty:

Michael Kelly, MD - Chief		Russell Bartt, MD		Serge Pierre-Louis, MD
Richard Brannegan, MD

The John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County is a public health care facility adjacent to Rush; this new state-of-the-art hospital facility opened in 2002. Through an academic affiliation between Rush and Cook County Hospital, Rush residents have the opportunity to see patients at both institutions. Cook County serves a diverse population, affording residents opportunities to treat a wide range of neurological problems. Weekly case conferences, lectures, and neuropathology conferences add to the academic experience.

Russell Bartt, MD, is an associate professor of neurological sciences at Rush University Medical Center and a full-time member of the Division of Neurology at Cook County Hospital since 1997. He attended Augustana College before coming to Rush Medical College. He began his training in neurology at the University of Washington, choosing to complete his training at Rush. While completing his neurophysiology fellowship he also gained experience in HIV-related neurology.

Since joining Cook County Hospital, he has been an active clinician, educator and clinical researcher in the field of neurological infections, particularly as it relates to HIV infection. At Cook County Hospital and Rush he attends clinic sessions dedicated to the care of these patients. He has lectured at other universities, in the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC). He has been a collaborator in the NeuroAIDS Research Consortium (NARC) and the Neurological Section of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). Dr. Bartt has been a speaker on a variety of topics at Annual Infections of the Nervous System course of the American Academy of Neurology since 2000.

Richard Brannegan, MD, graduated from Loyola Medical School in 1974 and completed his neurology residency at that same institution in 1979. He practiced neurology there and at the Hines VA Hospital until 1990 when he left to complete a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at the University of Pittsburgh. The next 10 years were spent in private practice in Chicago's southwestern suburbs. He joined the division of neurology at Cook County Hospital in 2002, where he practices general neurology with a special interest in electromyography.