She is an attending psychiatrist for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Psychiatric Emergency Evaluation Center and Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service and for the Penn Behavioral Health Forensic Psychiatry Service. Dr. Rushing is actively involved in resident and medical student education at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and in Penn's psychiatry residency programs as the course director for Forensic Psychiatry. She lectures on topics of law and medicine around the