Stephen Rush, MD

Dr. Stephen Rush, MD

Dr. Stephen Rush, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati

Stephen Rush is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience. He attended medical school at Indiana University and did a general psychiatry residency at the University of Cincinnati, graduating in 2014. Since becoming a faculty member in the department he has been involved in the treatment of patients with severe and refractory forms of major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders amongst others and receives referrals from various states in the country. He started a transcranial magnetic stimulation clinic at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, which has morphed into a Treatment Resistant Depression program, of which he is the co-director. He is also involved in community outreach, serving on the Tardive Dyskinesia Expert Panel and Clozapine Expert Panel for the CURESZ Foundation, as well as doing speaking engagements and outreach for the Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance amongst others. He currently serves as Medical Directory of Ambulatory Services for the UC Department of psychiatry. His clinical practice includes both inpatient and outpatient work, both with an emphasis on severe mental illness.