Spanish Speaking Experts

Augusto Miravalle, MD

Movement Disorders
Languages: English, Spanish
Augusto Miravalle is chief of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at RUSH. He specializes in treating patients with MS and offers care in both English and Spanish. He is interested in studying how MS manifests itself differently in Latino patients compared to white patients.

Media Clips:
MS Is Different, and Often Worse, for Latinos

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David Ansell, MD

Health Equity
Languages: English, Spanish
David Ansell is RUSH's SVP for Community Health Equity. In his role, he leads RUSH's strategy to be a catalyst for community health and economic vitality on Chicago's West Side.

Media Clips:
Wealth, not health: For this hospital, closing Chicago's alarming 'death gap' didn't mean more clinics
Mayor Brandon Johnson appoints Dr. Olusimbo Ige as new CDPH commissioner
OPINION: A call for commonsense gun legislation

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Elizabeth Davis, MD

General Medicine | Medical Director of Community Health Equity
Languages: English, Spanish
Elizabeth Davis is a primary care doctor who also serves on the RUSH Division of Community and Global Health Equity. Davis works with patients to manage chronic diseases like diabetes and COPD. She is especially focused on bringing primary care to patients in underserved communities through the RUSH@Home program.

Media Clips:
Doctors in Chicago are making house calls to give vulnerable patients the Covid-19 vaccine

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Jessica Vlaming, MS, PA-C

Physician Assistant Program Director
Languages: English, Spanish
Jessica Vlaming is the program director and director of Clinical Education for the Physician Assistant Program in the College of Health Sciences. Her research interests include global health, emergency medicine, medical simulation and incarceration medicine.

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Juan Cobo, MD

Internal Medicine | Geriatric Medicine
Languages: English, Spanish
Juan Cobo is an internal medicine physician who also practices geriatric medicine. He focuses on preventive care and treats diseases like hypertension, diabetes and thyroid disease.

Media Clips:
Old Age & Heat Can Be Deadly Combo: Tips to Stay Safe
Chicago prepares for excessive heat: 'Take it seriously'

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Laura Hernandez-Guarin, MD

Infectious Diseases
Languages: English, Spanish
Laura Hernandez-Guarin is an infectious disease physician at RUSH. Her clinical interests include HIV treatment and care, nosocomial infections and central nervous system infections. She also treat patients with complex infections that require prolonged antibiotic treatments.

Media Clips:
New COVID boosters could roll out in the coming days. Here's what to know

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Laura Zimmermann, MD

Primary Care | Preventative Medicine
Languages: English, Spanish
Laura Zimmermann is a primary care internist with expertise in lifestyle medicine, preventive medicine and quality improvement. She focuses on preventing and managing chronic illnesses by integrating medical care with behavioral interventions like healthy eating, physical activity, quitting smoking, and stress management.

Media Clips:
Inflation has patients delaying medical care, risking their health
COVID-19 Could Jeopardize Colorectal Cancer Screening, Prevention

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Lorenzo F. Muñoz, MD

Neurosurgery
Languages: English, Spanish
Lorenzo Muñoz is a board-certified neurosurgeon whose focus is on intracranial pathology, with a particular emphasis on complex brain and spinal cord tumors, aneurysms, cavernous malformation and AVMs. He's also experienced in treating congenital conditions like Chiari I malformation and spinal dysmorphism.

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Madeline Stark, MD

Obstetrics/Gynecology
Languages: English, Spanish
Madeline Stark is an obstetrician-gynecologist at RUSH who uses the latest tools, therapies and medicines to treat her patients, including laparoscopy and hysteroscopy. She can also speak about abnormal uterine bleeding, LGBTQ+ care, high-risk pregnancy, PCOS and sexual dysfunction.

Media Clips:
Boric Acid Suppositories: Uses, Side Effects And Risks
Is Vaping During Pregnancy as Bad as Smoking Cigarettes?

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Marie Lafeir, MD

Complex Medical Dermatology
Languages: English, Spanish
Marie Lafeir specializes in complex medical dermatology and inpatient dermatology. Her clinical interests include conditions like eczema and rashes, treating patients with immunosuppression (transplants or HIV), infections of the skin, and hidradenitis suppurativa.

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Mary J. Fidler, MD

Thoracic Oncology | Lung Cancer
Languages: English, Spanish
Mary J. Fidler is a thoracic oncologist with an emphasis on lung cancer treatment. She has been the national principal investigator for clinical trials testing a series of immune and chemotherapy combinations.

Media Clips:
Roundtable Discussion: Fidler Breaks Down the Steps for Targeted Treatments in Metastatic NSCLC

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Octavio Vega, MD

Internal Medicine
Languages: English, Spanish
Octavio Vega is an internal medicine physician at RUSH. His clinical interests include smoking cessation, vaccines, obesity, high cholesterol, preventive medicine, diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer prevention and screening.

Media Clips:
Family Ties: How Your Family's Health History May Offer Clues to Your Own Health
5 Facts About No. 2

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Paola Susan, MD

Family Medicine | LGBTQ+ Care
Languages: English, Spanish
Paola Susan is a family physician whose passion is caring for the underserved LGBTQ+ communities. Her other clinical interests include asthma, birth control, heart disease in women, lifestyle medicine, PrEP and STDs.

Media Clips:
Bonding With Grandkids
6 Facts About PrEP

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Prema Nanavaty, MD

Pulmonology, Critical Care
Languages: English, Gujarati, Hindi, Spanish
Prema Nanavaty is a pulmonologist and critical care physician whose clinical expertise includes interstitial lung disease, lung nodules, pneumonia, pulmonary embolisms and respiratory failure. She is also well-versed in endoobronchial ultrasound and transbronchial needle aspiration.

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Stephanie Crane, MD

Internal Medicine
Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Stephanie Crane is a primary care physician and assistant professor at RUSH. She created RUSH University's global health program and is an associate director of the school's internal medicine residency program.

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Susan Lopez, MD

Internal Medicine, Hospitalists | Health Equity
Languages: English, Spanish
Susan (Suzi) Lopez is a hospitalist at Rush. Her clinical interests include internal medicine. Her research covers the topic of improving health equity in marginalized communities, community-based research, trauma-informed care and improving diversity in medicine. She is an assistant professor of hospital medicine and community and global health equity.

Media Clips:
Space in Illinois hospitals is at an all-time pandemic low, as patients flood in and workers burn out
OPINION: Black and Brown Doctors (Like Me) Are Not OK Right Now
'Life and death': Barriers to healthcare for ethnic minorities
Fewer people take a 'wait and see' approach to COVID-19 vaccine -- here's what changed their minds

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