David Ansell MD

David Ansell is a Chicago based physician and healthcare leader He has been an internal medicine physician since training at Cook County Hospital in the late 1970s where he spent seventeen years holding a number of positions including Chief of General Medicine/Primary Care. After leaving County, he spent ten years as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital located in the North Lawndale neighborhood, a historically redlined neighborhood in Chicago. He was appointed as the inaugural Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center in 2005. In 2015, he was appointed SVP for Community Health Equity at Rush a position he holds today. He has written a number of papers and books on health inequities and has led a number for efforts to close life expectancy gaps in Chicago and across the US.