Stritch School of Medicine

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine is a national role model in reinventing medical education to prepare students for today’s health-care environment. Stritch also supports several research efforts:

• Burn and Shock Trauma Institute is a multidisciplinary program that focuses upon prevention, treatment, education and research issues relevant to trauma and injury.
• Cardiovascular Institute unites investigators who have backgrounds in a variety of disciplines to foster cardiovascular disease research to advance clinical care and to enhance post-graduate education.
• Leischner Institute provides opportunities for both clinical faculty and students to improve curriculum and inspire physicians to have the highest degree of skill, integrity and compassion.
• Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy focuses on ethics in the practice of medicine and educating health-care professionals to be effective leaders for social justice in medicine and society.
• Neuroscience Institute is a research program that focuses on degenerative diseases and diseases of aging.
• Oncology Institute coordinates Loyola’s interdisciplinary approach to cancer research and treatment.