Paul E. Casey, MD, MBA, FACEP

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Rush University System for Health  

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center  

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Rush University System for Health  

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center  

Paul Casey, MD

Paul E. Casey, MD, MBA, FACEP, serves as the system chief medical officer for Rush University System for Health.  Casey is an emergency medicine physician, and a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

As chief medical officer, Casey is responsible for the design, implementation and oversight of the Rush system’s clinical quality, patient safety and performance improvement initiatives. Additionally, Casey oversees Rush’s digital transformation, enterprise pharmacy and lab operations as well as the transfer center and care management teams. He cultivates collaborative partnerships between the academic medical practice and corporate programs, including clinical care delivery. 

Casey was instrumental in spearheading Rush's nationally lauded COVID-19 response strategy, rapidly mobilizing Rush for the treatment and testing of patients. As the physician director of Rush's COVID-19 Hospital Incident Command Center, he he oversaw clinical preparations for novel 2019 coronavirus cases and managed ongoing clinical operations related to the pandemic. Casey is a sought-after speaker at a number of national conferences and a member of national leadership committees including the Vizient Medical Executive Steering Committee and the AAMC Chief Medical Officers committee.

Prior to being named Rush’s chief medical officer, Casey served in various roles including as associate chief medical officer, senior patient safety officer, associate chief medical informatics officer and as vice chairperson for Emergency Department Operations. During his tenure as chief medical officer, Casey also served as the interim president for Rush University Medical Group for two years prior to the launch of the integrated system medical group.

Casey earned his medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and completed his residency in both emergency and internal medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. He is board certified in emergency medicine, internal medicine and medical informatics. Casey also completed an MBA at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.