Health Professions
Advocate Lutheran Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
Park Ridge, Illinois
Advocate Lutheran has been recognized as a “Top 100 Hospital”. It provides a “semi-academic” clinical environment with state of the art equipment. It is the flagship hospital for the Advocate Health Care System and the largest of a network of hospitals and clinics that provide radiation oncology services.
Equipment includes:
- Varian IX machines with OBI, Rapid Arc capabilities and Deep Inspiration Breath Hold
- Tomotherapy, Cyberknife, GE 16 Slice CT Simulator
- Three dimensional treatment planning
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy
- High Dose rate brachytherapy
- Hypofractionation for breast cancer treatment
- Grid Therapy, Total Body Irradiation
- Pediatric and Adult populations
- 2-3 Physicians/Day
- 7 Full time and 1 Part time therapist
- treat 35-50 patients per day
- We do not have opportunities for students to work during their internship
- We treat in a somewhat relaxed atmosphere; we give the students the opportunity to have as much “hands on” as they are comfortable with.
- TrueBeam in 2018
Education Director is James Bauml, MHA, RT(R)(T)
James.Bauml@advocatehealth.com