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Contact Information
Lisa Stevak, MA
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Section Members
Interests:
Health advocacy
Mardge Cohen has worked at Cook County Hospital since 1976 when she began her internal medical residency. After completing a chief residency she joined the attending staff of the hospital. In 1988 she started the Women and Children HIV Program to provide comprehensive medical and psychosocial services to women, their partners, and children. She is the Principal Investigator for several federally funded research studies including the National Institute of Health’s supported Women Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a cohort study begun in 1994 to investigate HIV disease progression in women; the Women Infant Transmission Study (WITS); and the CDC supported Mother Infant Rapid Intervention at Delivery study (MIRIAD). She is currently involved in a public health initiative to implement rapid HIV testing in labor and delivery areas of all birthing hospitals in the state of Illinois. Since 2004 she has traveled to and worked in Rwanda with a group called Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) to provide HIV and primary care for women who were infected after being raped during the 1994 genocide period. Working with many grass roots women’s associations and the Rwandan public health HIV infrastructure, WE-ACTx has set up clinics for women and children with HIV, as well as a cohort studied modeled after the WIHS.
Dr Jacobs is a Clinician-researcher
and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cook County Hospital and Rush
Medical College. She attended medical school at University of
California at San Francisco, trained as a general internist at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and completed a Robert Wood
Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship at the University of Chicago.
After struggling to care for limited English-speaking patients
during medical school and residency, she decided to pursue a
research career investigating minority disparities in health care.
As a RWJ fellow, she completed a project that demonstrated that
adequate interpreter services can reduce disparities in delivery of
health care between English and non-English speaking persons. She
has recently expanded this study to investigate the balance of costs
and benefits of providing interpreter services. Her research
interests also include access to, and cultural specificity of,
medical care delivered to minority patients. She joined the faculty
of the Collaborative Research Unit of Cook County Hospital, one of
the largest public hospitals in the country, in September of 1998 to
pursue similar research. She recently received a five-year grant
to study the relationship between general trust in physicians and
health care institutions and cancer screening among African-American
women. In addition, she care for patients at a neighborhood health
center, work with other investigators to design culturally specific
research, and teach residents and faculty about practicing
culturally sensitive medicine and the use of race and ethnicity
variables in research.
Dr. Monica Peek is a board certified
physician in Internal Medicine who received her medical degree and
master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins University
and completed her residency training at Stanford University
Hospital. She joined the National Health Service Corps and worked
for two years at a health clinic for the medically underserved in
Ohio before relocating to Chicago. She is currently an attending
physician and Assistant Professor at John Stroger Hospital and Rush
University Medical Center where she provides clinical care, teaches
and does health services research in the area of health disparities.
She recently completed a Medicine as a Profession (MAP) fellowship
in physician advocacy from the Open Society Institute where she
created the community-based initiative Sisters Working It
Out...Health Advocacy in Motion designed to empower women in
Chicago’s public housing developments to become health educators and
health advocates around women’s health issues, with a focus on
breast health and breast cancer screening. Dr. Peek is actively
involved in several community-based organizations such as the
Chicago Black Women’s Health Project, the Y-Me National Breast
Cancer Organization, and Sisters Network, Inc. She is a member of
several professional organizations including the Society of General
Internal Medicine, Physicians for a National Health Plan, the
National Medical Association and Physicians for Human Rights.
Robert Saqueton
Interests: General Internal
Medicine
Gordon Schiff
Interests: Addiction Medicine
Dr.
Smith provides patient care and teaches medicine as a general
internist at Stroger Hospital and Woodlawn Health Center of the Cook
County Bureau of Health Services. Her work focuses on increasing
mainstream health care provider participation in prevention and
treatment for substance use disorders. Promoting screening and
brief intervention for substance use disorders in hospitals and
health centers, she leads the Cook County Bureau of Health Services’
participation in the CSAT funded Illinois SBIRT Initiative. Another
recent project partners community members in addiction recovery with
primary care physicians to support their patients with substance use
problems. Dr. Smith is a member of Chicago’s Demand Treatment!
partnership with Join Together. She is a 2000 Fellow of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance
Abuse Program, and certified in addiction medicine by the American
Society of Addiction Medicine. She received her doctorate in
medicine from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at
Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia University in New York City. She
is currently a Senior Attending in General Medicine & Primary Care
at John H. Stroger Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine
at Rush Medical College. |
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