Our Leadership Team

Guided by our Board of Directors (with a variety of backgrounds in medicine, business, law, insurance, etc.), Executive Director Judith Haasis, and the support of a three-person management team, CommunityHealth continues to reach new milestones.

Senior Management

Judith Haasis
Executive Director
773.969.5920
jhaasis@communityhealth.org
Laura Michalski
Associate Executive Director/Director of Clinical Relations
773.969.5921
lmichalski@communityhealth.org
Aleta Rupert
Director of Development
773.969.5942
arupert@communityhealth.org

Board of Directors & Alumni Board

Officers

Joseph B. O’Malley, President
Managing Director, Regional Credit Officer, JP Morgan Chase
Valery E. Gallagher, President-Elect
Director, US State Government Affairs, Baxter Healthcare CorporationJames M. Durkin, Vice President
President, The Martec Group, Inc.

Rebekah Kohmescher, Treasurer
Director, Altair Advisers LLC
Andrew Palumbo, Secretary
Vice President of Ambulatory and Physician Services, Central DuPage Hospital
Jillian R. Foucré, Assistant Secretary
Sally Benjamin Young, Assistant Secretary
Vice President, Public Affairs, Lundbeck, Inc.
Babs Waldman, M.D., Medical Director
Former Medical Director, Bureau of Health Care,  Office of the Illinois Attorney General

Members

Rebecca S. Busch, RN
CEO, Medical Business Associates

Michael A. Dunlap, DDS
Practitioner, Essential Dental, P.C.; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry

Sandra F. Durley, PharmD
Associate Director, Ambulatory Care Pharmacy & Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy

Joseph M. Harrington
Regional Health Officer, Illinois Department of Public Health

William J. Hinde
Director and Healthcare Insurance (Payer) Practice Lead, West Monroe Partners

John Koenigsknecht, Esq.
Partner, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg

Cheryl Lulias
President, Medical Home Network

Karen Nichols, D.O.
Dean and Professor of Internal Medicine, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University

David J. Rice, Esq.
Associate Vice President, Legal Affairs, University Counsel and Associate General Counsel, Rush University Medical Center

H. Scott Sarran, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Government Programs,  Health Care Service Corporation

Richard H. Sewell
Associate Dean, Community and Public Health Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health  

Thad E. Smith
Director, Patient Access Programs, Abbott

Thomas M. Suffredin
Attorney, Law Offices of Thomas M. Suffredin

Daniel Vicencio, MD
Medical Director and Interim Executive Director, Mercy Family Health Center; Senior Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center

Emeritus Directors

John F. Benjamin
Serafino Garella, MD
Founder
Robert K. Mendonsa
Arnold L. Widen, MD
Immediate Past President

Alumni Board

John F. Benjamin
Bill Berenson
Stan Borg, M.D.
Fran Dean
Natalie Allman Dumstorff
Carolyn Ferry
Hon. Manny Flores
Milt Goodman
Robert J. Jordan
Scott Leisher
Robert K. Mendonsa
Cathy A. Peterson
Michael S. Roberts

Maria Saldana

Jill Schield
Roberta Shapiro
Mark Shields, M.D.
Mary Pat Studdert
Rosa Subero, M.D.
Prentiss Taylor, M.D.
Greg Tipsword
VJ Vasista
Judy Widen
Sarah Wilcox


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