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Rush University Medical Center
1725 West Harrison Street
Searle Conference Center, Room 542 Brainard
Chicago, Illinois, 60612
United States

Angela Moss

Dr. Moss is Assistant Dean of Faculty Practice and Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing. She has over 18 years’ experience as an nurse educator and clinician. She currently oversees more than 30 faculty practice community partnerships, teaches and advises DNP and HSM students, and practices one day/week as a nurse practitioner for formerly incarcerated men and women. But her real full time job and greatest joy is raising her three small boys with her husband.

David Ansell

Dr. Ansell began his medical career in 1978 at County, Chicago's public hospital, where he worked as an attending physician for almost two decades. His social history of the hospital, County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital, details his own time on the wards — and examines health care in America from the perspective of the uninsured. Dr. Ansell has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health and has written extensively about health disparities. Dr. Ansell lives in Oak Park, IL, with his wife of 36 years, Dr. Paula Grabler, who also trained at Cook County Hospital. They have two grown children. During his scarce leisure time, he enjoys reading, exercising and gardening.

Jamila Trimuel

From the south side of Chicago, Jamila Trimuel is a results-driven leader and encourages others to pursue purpose at all costs. She is the Founder of Ladies of Virtue, an award winning mentoring program that has empowered over 1,000 girls to become confident and purpose-driven leaders. As a mentor, social entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Jamila Trimuel has over ten years of experience in strategic planning and community engagement for nonprofit organizations. Jamila is a Broad Residency alum, a highly competitive leadership program that places participants in high-level managerial positions to help transform our public school systems.

Jimmy Choi

Jimmy Choi, a member of The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) Patient Council, was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at age 27. After his diagnosis in 2003, Jimmy lived in denial and tried to avoid the disease by remaining inactive. By 2010, he weighed 240 pounds and walked with a cane. After a bad fall, he had no choice but to confront the disease head-on and regain control of his life. The rest is history.

Steve Brown

Stephen Brown, MSW LCSW, is a faculty member and Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (UI Health). He earned his first degree in business marketing in 1984 from Northern Illinois University. During the next 13 years, he worked at Motorola’s Computer Systems Division as systems engineer, account executive, and product marketing manager. In 1998, he went on sabbatical to complete a second undergraduate degree in psychology at Northwestern University and a Master of social work at Loyola University. Stephen came to UI Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine in 2011 to establish a program to identify and manage healthcare super-utilizers. He is the Program Director for Better Health Through Housing, a demonstration pilot that is raising awareness in Chicago for the need to recognize homelessness as a dangerous social condition and to scale the nationally-validated Housing First model. The program transitions patients who are chronically homeless into permanent supportive housing.

Wayne Lerner

Wayne M. Lerner, DrPH, FACHE, is a veteran executive with over 30 years experience in healthcare administration, public policy, and education, and one of the leaders of the evolution of healthcare in the City of Chicago and the country as a whole. Currently, Dr. Lerner is an active board member for Sinai Health System. Previously, Dr. Lerner was a Director of the Cook County Health and Hospitals System and active member of the System Governing Board, Quality and Patient Safety Committee and Chair, Managed Care/County Care Committee. In October, 2006, Dr. Lerner was asked to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer for not-for-profit, Holy Cross Hospital, an inner city, 331 bed faith-based disproportionate share hospital serving over 450,000 residents as their sole community provider on the Southwest side of Chicago. In April, 2007 he assumed the role full time to focus on stabilizing the hospital's precarious financial situation while addressing the health disparities extent in its primary service area.