| MAYWOOD, Ill. -- Dr. Jennifer Kurth has been appointed assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Her professional interests include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety, autism and developmental delays. Kurth is certified in child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. "I'm very excited to be here at Loyola because there are a lot of opportunities to work with and design programs with other departments, to teach and do research and create new programming to improve patient care," said Kurth, who is also the director of the department's residency program.A resident of Chicago, Kurth began her affiliation with Loyola in February 2009. She received her medical degree in 2002 from Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pomona, Calif. In 2005, she completed a general psychiatry residency at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, Calif. In 2007, she completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.Kurth most recently served as an attending physician at the Warren Wright Adolescent Center of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the Illinois Psychiatric Society. Kurth actively participates in many hospital and medical school committees, is co-author of Challenging Depression and Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents, and has made a number of presentations and published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals.Kurth cares for patients at Loyola University Hospital, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood.To schedule an appointment with Kurth or any other Loyola physician, call toll-free (888) LUHS-888 and ask for extension 7100.
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| Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 28 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Childrens Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
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