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Abha Agrawal, MD, Internal Medicine, Chicago, IL, Humboldt Park Health

AbhaAgrawalMDFACP FACHE

Internal Medicine Chicago, IL

Clinical Informatics

Chief Medical Officer at Humboldt Park Health, Chicago IL

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Summary

  • Dr. Abha Agrawal is an experienced healthcare executive and a practicing physician. She has served in numerous impactful roles in diverse sectors in healthcare including non-profit hospitals, public hospitals, and for-profit health IT industry. She has a successful track record of transformational leadership including turn-around of a financially distressed hospital in Chicago.

    Her professional strengths include leadership and cultural transformation, strategic direction and planning, clinical operations, P&L responsibility, health IT / informatics, quality transformation, hospital -physician alignment and integration, community outreach and relations, board-management relationship management, leadership in community, social and professional organizations, and superb communication and interpersonal skills.

    In recognition of her role as a rising healthcare leader, she was invited to the White House in 2011 to meet with President Obama’s health and economic policy advisor and to provide testimony at the US Senate.


    Her board / leadership roles include:
    - Board of Trustees, American College of Medical Quality
    - Board of Governors, The Institute of Medicine Chicago
    - President of the Board, Chicago Physicians for Social Responsibility
    - Member, Governor’s Council, the American College of Physicians
    - National Medical Leadership Committee, America’s Essential Hospitals
    - Member, Medical Executives Forum, Illinois Hospital Association
    - Commissioner, CCHIT
  • Why I took on a major challenge.

    Dr. Abha Agrawal, Chief Medical Officer and COO of Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago, IL answers a question from PayPal founding team member Sanjay Bhargav

Education & Training

  • Yale-New Haven Hospital
    Yale-New Haven HospitalPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Medical Informatics, 1999 - 2001
  • SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
    SUNY Health Science Center at BrooklynResidency, Internal Medicine, 1992 - 1996
  • S.N. Medical College Agra
    S.N. Medical College AgraClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

  • IL State Medical License
    IL State Medical License 2013 - 2026
  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 2004 - 2026
  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 2001 - 2004
  • VA State Medical License
    VA State Medical License 1996 - 2002
  • CT State Medical License
    CT State Medical License 1999 - 2001
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Fulbright Scholar
  • 130 Women Health Executives to Know Becker's Hospital Review
  • Top 20 Global Women of Excellence US Congressman Danny K Davis, 2019

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Authored Content

  • Patient Safety: A case-based comprehensive guideOctober 2013

Press Mentions

  • No, Health Care Workers in Chicago Don’t All Live Downtown
    No, Health Care Workers in Chicago Don’t All Live DowntownFebruary 9th, 2021
  • With Urgency Mounting, Chicago Hospitals Race to Vaccinate Staff and Push to Move on to Others
    With Urgency Mounting, Chicago Hospitals Race to Vaccinate Staff and Push to Move on to OthersJanuary 8th, 2021
  • Public Health Officials Announce 8,828 New COVID-19 Cases, Highest Daily Figures Reported in a Week (LIVE UPDATES)
    Public Health Officials Announce 8,828 New COVID-19 Cases, Highest Daily Figures Reported in a Week (LIVE UPDATES)December 18th, 2020
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Committees

  • Board Member, American College of Medical Quality 2021 - Present

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • Hindi

Hospital Affiliations

Industry Relationships

  • Advisory Board, Even2022 - Present