![office rush team office rush team](http://rushgreenprimary.org.uk/wp-content/themes/html5blank-stable/img/Science_award.png)
![office rush team office rush team](https://rushgreenprimary.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/val.jpg)
Most of her work involves taking care of the underserved pediatric population at Rush Pediatric Primary Care Center. In addition, she is the codirector of the KidsSHIP program and a codirector of the pediatric residency advocacy track, KidsCARE. Laura Pabalan, MD, FAAP, is one of the medical directors of the Center to Transform Health and Housing and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center. She earned her medical degree at Rush University Medical College and completed her pediatric training at Rush University Children’s Hospital. Lui received her bachelor of arts at the University of Chicago in biology and economics. In addition, she is the director for resident advocacy rotation and codirector for the longitudinal advocacy track, Kids Community Advocacy at Rush for Equity (KidsCARE).
![office rush team office rush team](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/be/aa/1dbeaa709c9fe0d65913f807945fb86e.jpg)
Her primary teaching responsibilities are within the pediatric residency program as a preceptor for the resident continuity clinic, the acute care clinic and the general care nursery. She is a general pediatrician at the Rush Pediatric Primary Care Center, the largest academic pediatric clinic in Chicago, which largely serves the children in Chicago’s West and South sides. She is a pediatric champion for ICAAP’s First Steps: Improving Child Health and Housing initiative. Lui is a leader in the Illinois Community Advocacy Network for Kids in conjunction with her work with the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP). This program enables four general pediatricians the time needed to provide medical care to children living in one of several homeless shelters located in the West, North and South sides of Chicago. She is also the medical codirector for the Kids Shelter Health Improvement Program (KidsSHIP), a pediatric shelter outreach program founded in 1996. Karen Lui, MD, FAAP, is one of the medical codirectors for the Center to Transform Health and Housing and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center. She is completing a second master’s degree in global health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During this fellowship, she lived half-time on the Navajo Reservation in Fort Defiance, Arizona, working in primary care, and half-time in rural Haiti working as a hospitalist. She then went on to complete her internal medicine residency at Boston Medical Center and a global health fellowship through the Health, Equity, Action, Leadership initiative at the University of California San Francisco. Both groups address race-based clinical decision tools that perpetuate racism and exacerbate health care disparities at Rush and across the Chicago area.īradke received her bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Michigan and her master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Pittsburgh before attending medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She also chairs the Health Equity Anti-Racism Transforming subcommittee at Rush and has founded and co-chairs the Chicago Coalition for Anti-Racism and Equity in Health. Outside of her work with the Center, she engages in additional health equity work through her role as assistant director of Global and Community Health Programs in the Department of Internal Medicine, where she directs the Internal Medicine (IM) Resident Global Health elective and codirects the IM Global Health fellowship. Bradke is passionate about providing accessible medication-assisted recovery services to those who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. She recently obtained her X-Waiver to prescribe buprenorphine/naloxone to treat opioid use disorders and has completed the Rush Opiate Use Disorder Treatment Fellowship ECHO Program. Her main clinical role at Rush is in the Department of Hospitalist Medicine, and she additionally provides clinical care in multiple homeless shelters that have partnered with Rush. Amanda Bradke, MD, is one of the medical directors of the Center to Transform Health and Housing and an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center.