Dr. Rushing is a U.S. trained physician and diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in both Anatomic Pathology and Dermatopathology. After graduating from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, she obtained her Masters of Public Health degree at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she did melanoma research at The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. She then completed her Anatomic pathology residency at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Dermatopathology fellowship at The University of Arkansas. She practiced in private practice dermatopathology for seven years before deciding to dedicate herself to teaching full-time. Since then, Dr. Rushing has taught medical school pathology to over 1000 medical students and mentored many of them through their medical school journey and boards preparation. Dr. Rushing has created her own online comprehensive boards review course (Rushingreview) and has been published in several journals including Human Pathology, The Journal of Cutaneous Pathology and Modern Pathology. At PCOM, Dr. Rushing teaches pathology and the Comprehensive Basic Science Review and Synthesis course for boards preparation in second year. As Associate Dean of Pre-Clinical Curriculum, Dr. Rushing is also involved in curriculum oversight, academic planning and course evaluations.
Rushing Review - Online Pathology Board Review Course (45 hours)
Online intensive pathology review course of 3000 questions for students studying for
Step 1 and COMLEX 1 - May 8-12, 2023, July 1-5, 2023, August 28-Sept 1, 2023, December
26-30, 2023, May 13-17th 2024, December 26-30th 2024 (ongoing).
EC Rushing, A. Hoschar, JK McDonnell, SD Billings. “Iatrogenic Oral Hairy Leukoplakia: A Report of Two Cases”. The Journal of Cutaneous Pathology . 2011; 38: 275-279.
EC Rushing, Megan J. Stine, Sarah J. Hahn, Sofia Shea, Mark S Eller, Alaa Naif, Sarika Khanna, William H. Westra, Achim A. Jungbluth, Klaus J. Busam, Meera Mahalingham, MD and Rhoda M. Alani, MD. “Neuropilin-2: A novel biomarker for malignant melanoma?” Human Pathology. 2011. August.
EC Rushing, MJ Keefe, S Khanna, AA Jungbluth, KJ Busam, RM Alani. “Neuropilin-2 Expression in Normal Tissues, Various Tumors, and Primary Metastatic Melanomas.” Modern Pathology. 2009; 22: 109A. Poster presented at The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting Boston, March 11, 2009.
BA Williams, TA Jennings, EC Rushing, M Wirgis, and BE Russell. “Sporotrichosis on the face of a 7-year-old boy following a bicycle accident.” Pediatric Dermatology. 2013 Nov-Dec; 30(6): e246-7.
EC Rushing, V Krishnamurthi, C Farver and R Tuthill. “Transplant Melanoma: An Emerging Recipient Risk“. Presented at The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 2011. Presented at the American Society of Dermatopathology meeting, October 2011, Seattle, WA.
EC Rushing, R Tuthill. “Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin: Decreased Survival for Stage 4 Patients” Presented at The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 2011. Presented at the American Society of Dermatopathology meeting, October 2011, Seattle, WA.
EC Rushing, L Clark, M King, WL Cheung, and KM. Hiatt. “An Interesting Case of Asymptomatic Congenital Familial Mucinosis…What Is Your Diagnosis?” Presented at the American Society of Dermatopathology meeting, October 2011, Seattle, WA.
EC Rushing, K James, T Manning, WL Cheung, KM Hiatt. “Umbilical polyp masquerading as a pyogenic granuloma”. Presented at the American Society of Dermatopathology meeting, October 2011, Seattle, WA.
EC Rushing, BE Bowman, RJ Adams, KM Hiatt. “Ultra-late recurrence of metastatic cutaneous melanoma to the stomach and duodenum”. Presented at the American Society of Dermatopathology meeting, October 2011, Seattle, WA.
EC Rushing, WJ McCreary, KB Conner, GE Brown ,WL Cheung, KM Hiatt, ML Wirges. “Severe widespread desquamation from Humira®”. Presented at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. 2012.
G Duncan, D Walz, A Singh, S Nasr, EC Rushing. “Journey of a Bullet Embolization: Hepatic Vein to Right Ventricle”. Presented at the American University of the Caribbean Research Symposium, March 2021, Sint Maarten.
E O’Grady, R Pointer Tedder, H Alemneh, EC Rushing. “Wheals, Flares and a Childhood Scare: A Case of Pediatric Chronic Urticaria”. Presented at the American University of the Caribbean Research Symposium, March 2021, Sint Maarten.
J Selph, B Davis, B Barnard, EC Rushing. “An Overdose and More”. Presented at the American University of the Caribbean Research Symposium, July 2021, Sint Maarten.
Arielle Preston, Hawraa Beydoun, Ilana Nathan, Jamesetta Polahn, Jesse Lamb, Mirelle Alktaish, Neha Dayalani-Vaswani, EC Rushing. “The heart of the matter: Fever of unknown origin”. Presented at the American University of the Caribbean Research Symposium, November 2021, Sint Maarten.
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