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About the Company

Rush is a not-for-profit health care, education and research enterprise comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Health. Rush University is home to one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation`s top-ranked nursing colleges, as well as graduate programs in allied health, health systems management and biomedical research. Rush has more than 8,000 employees, a medical staff of 890, and 650 physician residents and fellows. Rush is currently constructing a 14-floor, 806,000-square-foot hospital building at the corner of Ashland Avenue and Congress Parkway scheduled to open in 2012. It will house Rush`s acute and critical care patients and surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic services utilizing the most advanced technology available. The facility`s unique shape reflects four years of planning and input by hundreds of nurses, doctors and patients, whose ideas have influenced the design and layout. The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2012, is the centerpiece of a $1 billion, ten-year campus redevelopment plan called the Rush Transformation.

About the Person

Lac Van Tran has held his current post at 664-bed Rush University Medical Center since November 2002. Before then, he served as senior vice president and Chief Information Officer of Methodist Hospital System in Houston, vice president and Chief Information Officer of Children’s Hospital Boston and CIO of Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medical Center. He is degree in Chemical Engineering and in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Systems Design. He is also a distinguished graduate of MIT Sloan of Information Technology Management for Senior Executives and the Federal Executives Institute. Most notably, he has received numerous prestigious awards including the Commander-in-Chief Excellence Award Recognition for Special Projects, Air Education and Training Command for the National Casualty Tracking System and Outstanding CIO of the Year.