Our GME Staff

Susan Vanderberg-Dent, MD
(312) 563-3643
Associate Dean for GME

• Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for ACGME and NRMP
• Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) Chair
• Program accreditation/site visits
• Internal Review Administrator
• Requests for new programs
• Requests for change in housestaff complement
• Duty hour regulations and compliance
• Institutional and program affiliations
• Institutional policy development
• Confidential discussion of Housestaff concerns
• Program Director support
• Discipline and grievance procedures

Nikita Ross Daniel
(312) 942-9551
GME Director
nikita_ross@rush.edu

• Institutional Review Administrator
• Institutional Policy development
• Affiliation Agreements
• Core Competency resource
• Graduate Medical Education Committee Coordinator
• Program Director support
• Internal Review Administrator
• Program Coordinator Committee Chair
• Program Coordinator support
• Liaison to Rush Housestaff Association (HSA)
• Mediator for confidential discussions of Housestaff concerns
• GME New Housestaff orientation
• "GME Today" on-line modules

Theresa Orozco
(312) 942-5760
GME Program Coordinator
for Surgical Specialties
theresa_m_orozco@rush.edu

• Housestaff Benefits
• Incoming mailings
• Licensure
• Letters of Appointments
• Labcoats
• LEAP on-line modules compliance
• Corporate and Employee Health liaison
• Staff Change Notices
• Program Coordinator support
• Orientation
• Graduation and final clearance
• Certificates
• Call room maintenance issues
• Housestaff Datasheets
• USMLE Step 3 / COMLEX information
• Notary Public
• GME Websites
• Program Websites

Denise Chaney-Harris
(312) 942-0312
GME Program Coordinator
for Medical Specialties
denise_k_chaney@rush.edu

• Housestaff Benefits
• Incoming mailings
• Licensure
• Letters of Appointments
• LEAP on-line modules compliance
• Corporate and Employee Health liaison
• Staff Change Notices
• Program Coordinator support
• Orientation
• Graduation and final clearance
• Certificates
• Call room maintenance issues
• Housestaff Datasheets
• USMLE Step 3 / COMLEX information
• GME Websites
• Program Websites

Tina Conley
(312) 942-5495
Secretary
tina_conley@rush.edu

• Employment verifications
• Forbearance and deferment forms
• Copy cards
• Lockers
• Pagers
• Medical records stampers
• Housestaff mailboxes
• Notary Public

Paul Boughamer
(312) 942-6399
Manager, GME Cost Reporting and Technology
paul_boughamer@rush.edu

• Med Hub
• Freedom Pay
• Fobs (remote access for EPIC)
• Payroll
• Medicare funding and audits
• Finance coordinator
• Housestaff Activity liaison
• Affiliation Agreements (non-hospital)
• Evaluation and Survey Resource coordinator
• Technology lead
• GME - Information Services liaison

Stephanie Smith, MEd
(312) 942-2729
Senior Database and Technology Analyst
stephanie_smith@rush.edu

• Visiting Physicians
• Technology Coordinator for Visiting Physicians
• Technology Coordinator curriculum and evaluative processes
• GME - Information Services liaison
• Fobs (remote access for EPIC)
• Travel reimbursements
• Payroll
• Freedom Pay
• Med Hub
• NPI Numbers

Margaret (Meg) Halpin
(312) 942-5495
College of Nursing Student Worker

The GME office is located in Suite 527 of the Armour Academic Center at the corner of Paulina and Harrison Streets on the Rush University Medical Center campus in Chicago.

600 S. Paulina Street
Suite 527 Academic Facility
Chicago, IL 60612-3833
Telephone: (312) 942-5495
Fax: (312) 942-5727
Hours: 8 am – 5 pm, Monday – Friday
email: Rush_GME@rush.edu