David Ansell, MD, MPH

David Ansell, MD, MPH is the Michael E Kelly Presidential Professor of Internal Medicine and Senior Vice President/Associate Provost for Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical College. He did his medical training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He spent 13 years at Cook County as an attending physician and ultimately was appointed Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital.  From 1995 to 2005 he was Chairman of Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Chicago. He was recruited to Rush University Medical Center as its inaugural Chief Medical Officer in 2005, a position he held until 2015. His research and advocacy has been focused on eliminating health inequities. In 2011 he published a memoir of his times at County Hospital, County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital. His latest book is The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills was published in 2017. 

David Ansell will present on Antiracism Leadership: Sharing Power with Community

· Discuss the visionary work toward health equity through Anti-Racism.

· Describe how we can partner with community leaders and organizations to advance health equities in the communities we serve

Arthur Acevedo

Arthur Acevedo joined the UIC Law School (formerly the John Marshall Law School) in 2007. He teaches Constitutional Law, Income Tax, and Business Corporations. Before joining UIC Law, he taught at the University of Baltimore School of Law and as an adjunct professor at DePaul University. Prior to joining the legal academy, Professor Acevedo worked for McDonald’s Corporation, Marbo Inc., Price Waterhouse, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Professor Acevedo’s scholarship focuses on tax law, corporate law, and corporate responsibility. His writings include examining the auditor’s role under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; the failure by the SEC to provide clear accounting standards; the abuse of tax positions by income tax protesters and tax shelter promoters; and the failure of the legal system in promoting corporate responsibility.  His most recent scholarship analyzes the interaction of corporate law and constitutional law, and asserts that corporate self-interest benefits when engaging in ethical decision-making.  His scholarship examines the appropriation of the United States Constitution by corporate interests and its implications on our social, economic, and political institutions.  His writings have been cited by numerous writers including the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Professor Acevedo is a three-time graduate from DePaul University where he received his undergraduate degree with a double major in accounting and finance, his Master of Science in Taxation, and his Juris Doctor degree.  Professor Acevedo also successfully passed the CPA exam. He is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.

Professor Acevedo is a mentor and faculty advisor to the Latino Law Student Association at UIC Law.  He is also the recipient of numerous awards.  He sits on the Board of Directors of the Josephinum Academy, a Catholic, college-prep girls’ high school empowering inner-city young women with a world-class education and a 100% college placement record.

Arthur Acevedo will present on Connecting our community through Education

• Explain the implications of the Supreme Court’s most recent decisions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North
• Discuss how these decisions impact the medical Latinx community
• Identify actions required to keep the Latinx community connected to education 

Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM

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Dr. Pilar Ortega is Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), where she supports efforts to improve retention and well-being for diverse resident and fellow physicians. Dr. Ortega is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in linguistically and culturally appropriate health care.

Dr. Ortega also holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education.

Her groundbreaking work in medical Spanish education and assessment has contributed to the recognition of language equity as an area of scholarly inquiry in medicine. She also co-founded two non-profit organizations that foster interprofessional collaborative scholarship focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging: the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement and the National Association of Medical Spanish. To date, she has published four books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has delivered more than 100 national and international presentations.

Dr. Ortega has mentored numerous underrepresented in medicine learners and junior faculty members in advancing their academic scholarship through her roles in the Latino Medical Student Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association, the MedEdPORTAL journal, and the Association of American Medical Colleges Research in Medical Education (RIME) committee.

Dr. Ortega earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, her Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in graphic medicine from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.

Maria Magdalena Llabre, Ph.D.

Maria Magdalena Llabre received her PhD in educational research from the University of Florida.  She is Professor of Psychology and a Cooper Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami.  She is Director of Biobehavioral Statistics at the Behavioral Medicine Research Center, where she has made research contributions to the study of cardiovascular stress reactivity, the effects of war trauma on children, adverse childhood experiences and health, and methodology in behavioral medicine research.  She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching graduate statistics.  She is a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, where she received the Lifetime Service Award in 2022.  Her current work in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos tries to understand the Hispanic paradox, the observation that Hispanics in the US have lower rates of cardiovascular disease and mortality, despite having a higher risk factor profile relative to non-Hispanics.