FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) today announced that Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) is the first medical center to enroll a patient in the Gore REDUCE Clinical Study*. This milestone was achieved by the site’s study co-investigators, Ziyad Hijazi, MD, Director of the Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease and Professor of Pedatrics and Internal Medicine, and Vivien Lee, MD, Stroke Neurologist.