Najamul Ansari M.D., F.A.C.C.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
2008 – pres Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL
            Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
2008 – pres John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County
            Director of Interventional Cardiology
            Attending Physician, Division of Adult Cardiology
2003 - 2004 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Clinical Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine
2005 - 2008 Jessie Brown Veteran’s Affairs Hospital, Chicago, IL
            Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine 
 
HONORS and AWARDS:
2004  Fellow of the Year, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, Chicago IL
2002  Resident of the Year, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
1997  Roessler Research Fellowship, Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Cols., OH
1996  Scarlet and Gray Scholarship, Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Cols., OH
1992 - 1996 Dean’s List, Ohio State University, Cols., OH 
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2005 - 2008 University of Illinois at Chicago Hospitals, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of
      Cardiology; PI: John A. Kao, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine
Studying the effect of the insulin sensitizer Pioglitazone on the mTOR protein in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells.