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<!doctype html>
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<p class="site-title"><strong>Ben Rush</strong></p>
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<p class="home-hero-kicker">Radiology data science • science communication • improv</p>
<h1 id="home-hero-title" class="home-hero-title">Science that makes complex ideas feel <em>human</em>.</h1>
<p class="home-hero-lede">Ben Rush, PhD, MPH is an informatics data scientist at UW–Madison Radiology who turns imaging data, AI workflows, and scientific stories into projects people can understand, use, and build on.</p>
<p class="home-hero-support">His work moves between CT biomarkers and population health, applied improv and team science, podcasting and public conversations—always with a focus on rigor, clarity, warmth, and creative momentum.</p>
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<a class="button button-primary" href="/pages/science/">Explore the science</a>
<a class="button button-secondary" href="/pages/workshops/">Bring Ben in</a>
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<div class="home-hero-proof" aria-label="Core areas of work">
<span>CT biomarkers</span>
<span>Radiology AI</span>
<span>Applied improv</span>
<span>Science communication</span>
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<img src="/assets/img/ben-rush-home-hero.jpg" alt="Ben Rush speaking on stage in a bow tie during a live performance." />
<figcaption>Science communication, performance, and human-centered data work.</figcaption>
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<p class="home-identity-label">Scientist</p>
<h2>Imaging informatics</h2>
<p>CT biomarkers, epidemiology, AI workflows, and translational data science.</p>
</article>
<article class="home-identity-card">
<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-network mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="home-identity-label">Improviser</p>
<h2>Creative collaboration</h2>
<p>Longform performance, ensemble-building, and comfort with uncertainty.</p>
</article>
<article class="home-identity-card">
<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-learning mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="home-identity-label">Educator</p>
<h2>Workshops that stick</h2>
<p>Interactive sessions that help teams communicate with confidence and warmth.</p>
</article>
<article class="home-identity-card">
<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-signal mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="home-identity-label">Communicator</p>
<h2>Stories with structure</h2>
<p>Podcasting, public speaking, and science translation that respects the audience.</p>
</article>
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<p class="module-kicker">Featured work</p>
<h2 class="featured-title" id="featured-work-title">Projects that show how Ben builds things.</h2>
<p class="featured-lede">These highlights are not just accomplishments. They show a pattern: rigorous science, ambitious comedy, community infrastructure, and learning environments that help other people grow.</p>
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<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-network mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="featured-card-kicker">Performance / community</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">Amalgam Improv Second Anniversary at Bartell Theatre</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">A marker that Ben can turn a local indie idea into a real arts-community institution: a major Madison theater night that still includes a jam, audience access, and independent teams.</p>
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<span class="featured-card-tag">Bartell Theatre</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">Independent improv</span>
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<span class="featured-card-link">View event</span>
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<p class="featured-card-kicker">Research</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">OSCAR multicenter CT biomarker survival prediction</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">A signal of Ben’s scientific lane: multi-site imaging informatics that turns routine CT scans into carefully harmonized, externally tested, population-level risk prediction work.</p>
<div class="featured-card-meta" aria-label="Card topics">
<span class="featured-card-tag">CT biomarkers</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">External validation</span>
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<span class="featured-card-link">Explore science</span>
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<a class="featured-card featured-card--improv" href="https://www.amalgamimprov.com/big-honey-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-network mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="featured-card-kicker">Festival / production</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">Big Honey’s Little Improv Festival</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">Built to inspire independent teams: a low-barrier festival model that gives performers a stage, shows what small teams can create, and makes the local scene feel possible.</p>
<div class="featured-card-meta" aria-label="Card topics">
<span class="featured-card-tag">Festival</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">Broom Street Theater</span>
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<p class="featured-card-kicker">Digital tool / community</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">Largest improv group map in the world</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">Evidence that Ben builds infrastructure, not just events: a 2,000+ group discovery tool that helps improvisers find scenes, classes, shows, and communities anywhere.</p>
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<span class="featured-card-tag">2,000+ groups</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">Improv infrastructure</span>
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<span class="featured-card-link">Open map</span>
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<a class="featured-card featured-card--science" href="https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.24.32216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
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<p class="featured-card-kicker">Publication / award</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">CT body composition and systemic disease in 100,000+ patients</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">A peer-reviewed credibility marker for Ben’s research identity: large-scale AI-derived CT body composition work translated into clinically legible evidence and AJR recognition.</p>
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<span class="featured-card-tag">AJR</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">Body composition</span>
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<span class="featured-card-link">View DOI</span>
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<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-signal mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="featured-card-kicker">Comedy / media</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">Jess McKenna Instagram video</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">A national-ambition signal for Amalgam and Ben’s comedy work: connecting a Madison indie improv project to a broader audience and the artists who shape the form.</p>
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<span class="featured-card-tag">Instagram</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">National ambition</span>
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<span class="featured-card-link">Open Instagram</span>
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<a class="featured-card featured-card--improv" href="/pages/workshops/">
<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-learning mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="featured-card-kicker">Workshop / science communication</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">Applied Improv for Scientists / Sci-prov</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">The clearest bridge between Ben’s worlds: performance tools turned into practical training for scientists who need presence, trust, clarity, and better ways to communicate.</p>
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<span class="featured-card-tag">SciComm</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">Applied improv</span>
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<span class="featured-card-link">View workshops</span>
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<div class="mini-viz mini-viz-learning mini-viz-compact" aria-hidden="true"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
<p class="featured-card-kicker">Improv learner hub</p>
<h3 class="featured-card-title">Listen, Watch, and Read resources from Amalgam</h3>
<p class="featured-card-description">A teaching philosophy made visible: polished resource hubs that lower the barrier to learning, point people toward quality examples, and help improvisers keep growing between classes.</p>
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<span class="featured-card-tag">17 podcasts</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">15 video channels</span>
<span class="featured-card-tag">30 reading channels</span>
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<a class="featured-resource-link" href="https://www.amalgamimprov.com/listen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen</a>
<a class="featured-resource-link" href="https://www.amalgamimprov.com/watch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch</a>
<a class="featured-resource-link" href="https://www.amalgamimprov.com/read" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read</a>
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<p class="module-kicker">Selected recognition</p>
<h2 class="module-section-title" id="recognition-title">Recent signals of momentum.</h2>
<p class="module-section-lede">A few research, funding, and professional-development highlights that connect the science, methods, and public-facing work.</p>
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<span class="recognition-year">2026</span>
<p class="module-kicker">Publication recognition</p>
<h3 class="module-title">Best of AJR 2025 – Multispecialty</h3>
<p class="module-description">Recognition connected to the AJR population-level CT body composition and systemic disease analysis.</p>
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<article class="module-card recognition-card">
<span class="recognition-year">2025–2026</span>
<p class="module-kicker">Research support</p>
<h3 class="module-title">Radiology IR&D pilot grant</h3>
<p class="module-description">Support for geospatial linking and mapping of CT-derived biomarkers, socioeconomic context, and healthcare access.</p>
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<article class="module-card recognition-card">
<span class="recognition-year">2025–present</span>
<p class="module-kicker">Career development</p>
<h3 class="module-title">NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program</h3>
<p class="module-description">Selected for NIH clinical research loan repayment support while continuing radiology data science work.</p>
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<p class="module-kicker">Work with Ben</p>
<h2 id="contact-title">Collaborate, bring Ben in, or connect.</h2>
<p>Use the lane that fits what brought you here: scientific collaboration, workshops and science communication, Amalgam Improv questions, or social/professional connection.</p>
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<div class="contact-card-grid" aria-label="Contact options">
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<p class="contact-card-kicker">Science</p>
<h3>Scientific collaboration</h3>
<a href="mailto:rush4@wisc.edu">rush4@wisc.edu</a>
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<article class="contact-card">
<p class="contact-card-kicker">Workshops</p>
<h3>Workshops and speaking</h3>
<a href="mailto:ben@deeperthandata.media">ben@deeperthandata.media</a>
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<article class="contact-card">
<p class="contact-card-kicker">Amalgam</p>
<h3>Improv community questions</h3>
<a href="mailto:contact@amalgamimprov.com">contact@amalgamimprov.com</a>
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<p class="contact-card-kicker">Profiles</p>
<h3>Follow and connect</h3>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/benruschscience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrushscience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>
<a href="https://github.com/benrushscience" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a>
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<p class="eyebrow">Explore the site</p>
<h2>The many flavors of Ben Rush.</h2>
<p>Jump into the area that best matches what brought you here—research collaboration, workshops, performance, or the broader story behind it all.</p>
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<p class="card-kicker">Origin story</p>
<h2>Personal Story</h2>
<p>How science, curiosity, humor, and teaching began to overlap.</p>
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<a class="card card-science" href="/pages/science/">
<p class="card-kicker">Research & data</p>
<h2>Science</h2>
<p>Imaging informatics, publications, projects, and collaborative work.</p>
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<a class="card card-improv" href="/pages/improv/">
<p class="card-kicker">Performance & play</p>
<h2>Improv</h2>
<p>Shows, training, and the creative practice that informs everything else.</p>
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<a class="card card-podcasting" href="/pages/podcasting/">
<p class="card-kicker">Stories & audio</p>
<h2>Podcasting</h2>
<p>Projects that turn curiosity and conversation into engaging listening.</p>
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<a class="card card-workshops" href="/pages/workshops/">
<p class="card-kicker">Bring Ben in</p>
<h2>Workshops</h2>
<p>Interactive sessions on science communication, teamwork, improv, and AI.</p>
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<a class="card card-cv" href="/pages/cv/">
<p class="card-kicker">Experience</p>
<h2>CV</h2>
<p>Credentials, appointments, teaching, and downloadable materials.</p>
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