Rush International Spine Education

Rush International Spine Education

RISE (Rush International Spine Education) is a new collaboration between Rush University Medical Centre and eccElearning. It provides novel education via blended learning to address the diagnosis, treatment, outcomes and preventive measure of various spinal disorders.

RISE: Cervical Radiculopathy and Myelopathy

RISE is a comprehensive, interactive series on spinal disorders and the first RISE course available covers Cervical Radiculopathy and Myelopathy.

The series of 13 online lectures is accompagnied by 8 interactive case-based discussion webinars. The program is led by senior, experienced faculty who serve as mentors to each registered participant for the year.

It is a Rush University accredited course, so you  gain AMA PRA Cat 1 CME Credits for completing it, along with a Rush University Certificate of Completion.

Who is it for?

RISE is ideally suited to Senior Clinicans, Junior Clinicians, Fellows and Residents. Because the course is online, you can enrol and learn from anywhere in the world.

Course Overview

Watch this video with Program Director Dino Samartzis DSc to find out more about what RISE is all about:

Program Benefits

RISE Faculty & Mentors

This is the world-class faculty of the RISE Program, who also act as mentors to each registered participant during the course:

• Howard S. An, MD, Program Director, Rush
• Dino Samartzis, DSc Program Director, Rush
• Richard Assaker, MD, CHRU Lille, France
• Matthew W. Colman, MD, Rush
• Harel Deutsch, MD, Rush
• Christopher J. DeWald, MD, Rush
• Richard G. Fessler, MD, Rush
• Ricardo B. V. Fontes, MD, PhD, Rush
• Sapan Gandhi, MD, Harvard
• Sravisht Iyer, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery
• Krishn Khanna, MD, Orthopaedics Northeast
• Ralph Kothe, MD, Schoen Clinic Hamburg, Germany
• Stephane Litrico, MD, University of Nice, France
• Philip Louie, MD, Virginia Mason
• Michael T. Nolte, MD, Rush
• Frank M. Phillips, MD, Rush
• Vincent Traynelis, MD, Rush