Rush is again represented on Modern Healthcare's 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives list, with Dr. Omar Lateef, president and CEO of Rush University System for Health and Rush University Medical Center, making his sixth appearance.
Modern Healthcare chooses nominees who “use their medical expertise to shape their organizations’ strategies and drive transformation throughout the industry.”
Among the highlights on Lateef’s Modern Healthcare nomination was the opening of the Sankofa Wellness Village Center, where Rush is a key part of a facility designed to provide health care while creating opportunities for residents in one of Chicago’s most disinvested areas.
The list is currently available digitally for Modern Healthcare subscribers and will be in the June print edition of the magazine.
Rush’s influence was evident during an event with another major publication on May 27 as Lateef spoke alongside other leaders from various industries about the future of AI at TIME magazine’s first TIME100 AI Leadership Forum.
During the discussion — including Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services — Lateef shared Rush’s success with Nuna, a program that leverages AI to keep patients on track taking their medications. Twenty percent were able to get these chronic conditions under control.
“Twenty percent is a huge number in health care," he said. "If you take 20 patients with uncontrolled hypertension and make it controlled, you decrease strokes, and you decrease heart attacks.”