110th Anniversary - IOMC Leadership Awards & Annual Convening
Major Fundraising Goal $350,000
June 26, 2025
5:00 - 8:00 PM CT
Maggiano's -Chicago
Grand Ballroom
Cocktail and Business Attire
Valet parking available. SpotHero for other convenient parking.
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The 110th Anniversary will celebrate the Institute's pioneering efforts in health equity, its accomplishments, and its look to the future. As evident in our news and communities, our work is not completed in advancing health equity. Join us in our relentless efforts to create social change and reduce healthcare disparities.
David Ansell, MD, MPH - We are honored to have Dr. David Ansell, MD, MPH as our Keynote Speaker for this momentous occasion. His efforts in health equity work, addressing patient dumping, and leadership has spanned decades.
Festivities- The evening will include announcing the new Board of Governors 2025-2026, recognizing the Class of 2025 Fellows and all Billings Fellows, and honoring the 2025 Leadership Award recipients. Please join us in 'advancing health equity by reducing healthcare disparities.'
Thank you to the 2024-2025 Board of Governors and their leadership, commitment and mission -centric efforts.
Emcee - Robert Johnson, media and communications consultant who was previously a news anchor at WBBM-TV in Chicago for over thirteen years. His experience includes WLS-TV, KALB-TV, KLKY-TV, KATV, and KPRC-TV. IOMC is honored that he will lead the evening program.
Keynote Speaker Bio - David Ansell. MD, MPH
David A. Ansell (born 1952) is a Chicago-based physician, social epidemiologist and author. His efforts at both the national and local levels have advanced concerns about health inequities and the structure of the US health care system. His years as a provider to the medically underserved have made him a vocal supporter of single-payer health care.[1][2] He spent seventeen years at Cook County Hospital currently known as John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County upon which the medical T.V. drama ER was based. Ansell was inspired by his time at Cook County Hospital to write a memoir and social history entitled, County: Life, Death, and Politics in Chicago’s Public Hospital. County was hailed as a "landmark book" by Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune, aiming "to inform and to inspire" readers about the disparities in health care. In the book, Ansell argues that only a single-payer solution that provides access to all US residents regardless of circumstances can provide relief for those closed out of the health care system.[3]
Efforts against patient dumping
In the mid 1980s, Ansell and colleagues noted a marked increase in the numbers of patients transferred to public hospitals around Chicago and the US, due to a lack of health insurance. This practice is known as patient dumping. In 1984, Ansell joined a project led by Robert Schiff], M.D., to expose patient dumping in Chicago.[5] He contributed to the article "Transfers to a Public Hospital" that appeared in the February 1986 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, criticizing patient dumping and the unnecessary deaths it caused. Efforts against patient dumping like this eventually led to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which made the emergency transfers of patients illegal.[6]
Health Inequity Work
Ansell founded and directed one of first programs in the US to battle race-based disparity in health care, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program at Cook County Hospital, in 1984. In 1995, Ansell left Cook County Hospital to become Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine of Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, the city's largest private safety-net hospital. Among other activities at Mount Sinai, in 2002 he founded the Sinai Urban Health Institute[7] a major health-disparity research and intervention center along with the late Steven Whitman, PhD who served as its director. In 2006, he and Dr. Whitman helped expose the racial breast cancer mortality gap in Chicago in an article they published. In response, they joined with others to found the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, a group dedicated to eliminating this disparity in the Chicago area.[8][9]
In 2015, Ansell helped found the DePaul-Rush Center for Community Health Equity a Chicago-based health equity educational and research center based at DePaul University and Rush University Medical Center.[10]
Full bio here>
Tickets
$195.00 Members - Billings Fellows, Fellows and Associate Fellows *,**,***,****
$235.00 Non-members (Guests) *,**,***,****
$3000.00 Table of Eight with Special Benefits (Sponsorship) *,**,***,****
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Contact Courtney Avery Davis, MPH or Deborah Hodges, MA-IDS to obtain information on sponsorships, tables and more at sponsorship@iomc.org.
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