“Achieving the Spencer Foreman Award has long been a goal, but we are especially proud to receive this honor this year” said Sharon Gates, DSW, MA, Rush University’s senior director of student diversity and community engagement. “Rush Medical College students and faculty have been on the leading edge of community engagement and activism for many years, but in a year when our community needed them most, they stepped up and stepped in to protect Chicago’s most vulnerable populations.” Newswise - The American Association of Academic Medical Colleges has awarded Rush Medical College the 2020 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement, citing the college’s work to protect Chicago’s homeless population from COVID-19 in choosing it as the recipient of the award, which recognizes a medical school or teaching hospital that “goes well beyond the traditional role of academic medicine and reaches communities whose needs are not being met through the traditional health delivery system.”