David N. Rush

David Rush received an M.D. degree in 1972 from the National University of Tucumán, Argentina. His post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology was undertaken at the University of Western Ontario in London. In 1982, he was recruited to the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. In addition to several teaching awards, he was awarded the Canadian Society of Transplantation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and the Founders Award by The Kidney Foundation of Canada Manitoba Branch in 2013. He served as Head of the Section of Nephrology at the University of Manitoba from 1998 until July 2013. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, and former Director of Transplant Manitoba–Adult Kidney Program. He has recently been appointed to to the Order of Canada. His interests are clinico/pathological correlations in acute and chronic renal allograft rejection, non-invasive monitoring of the renal allograft and biomarker development, as well as medical education.