A 2008 USI graduate, Lauren Perrey, was selected to receive the 2015 Rising Star in Clinical Practice Award from the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. She currently works at IU Health Methodist Hospital.

Perrey works in the Neuroscience Critical Care Unit where she works with patients who have had brain injuries, strokes, aneurysms and other serious diagnoses. She was nominated for the award by a co-worker and will receive the award on March 31 at the associations annual education meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.