Dino Rumoro became president and CEO of RUSH Oak Park Hospital in July of 2021. Since his arrival at the community hospital, he has successfully led efforts to integrate departments and services RUSH-wide. He helped procure new and more advanced medical technologies like the da Vinci XI, robotic-assisted integration to assist surgeries, and an additional Linear Accelerator, a machine that aims radiation at cancer tumors with pinpoint accuracy. He also played an integral role in opening the hospital’s Electrophysiology Lab, a modern facility for assessing, diagnosing and treating abnormal heart rhythms and other heart related conditions.
Rumoro is currently leading RUSH’s efforts to develop a new $50 million outpatient center at the corner of North and Harlem avenues. The 60,000-square foot facility, expected to open in 2025, will offer some of the most sought-after health care services — including nationally ranked specialties like cancer, neurology and cardiology.
Rumoro was hired at RUSH University Medical Center in 2001 to charter RUSH’s first academic Department of Emergency Medicine. He was named clinical chairman for the newly established department and was subsequently named academic chairman from 2010 to 2021.
In addition to growing the emergency department to one of the busiest and most efficient in Chicago, Rumoro developed the Advanced Trauma Training Program, which focuses on pre-deployment medical training for the military.
From 2005 to 2012, Rumoro was named to RUSH’s Office of Transformation as a clinical transformation officer, assisting with the planning and building of what is now called the Joan and Paul Rubschlager Tower that included a state-of-the-art emergency department and other major renovations on the Medical Center campus. The $1 billion project enhanced patient care and the patient experience and received numerous awards and accolades. The Center for Advanced Emergency Response was designed to be the first chemical, biological and radio-nuclear civilian-based response facility to augment the existing trauma system.
Rumoro has served in other leadership roles, including president of the 1,300-member RUSH University Center Medical Staff and vice dean for the Office of Integrated Medical Education and Clinical Faculty Operations. He also spent two terms as acting dean of the RUSH Medical College.
Rumoro completed his emergency medicine residency training at Cook County Hospital where he served as chief resident his senior year. Upon graduation, he became a practicing attending emergency physician at Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago where he helped develop and establish an emergency medicine residency training program and served as the associate program director.