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Office
1044 north francisco avenue
Chicago, IL 60622Phone+1 773-292-8248- Is this information wrong?
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
Education & Training
- Yale-New Haven HospitalPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Medical Informatics, 1999 - 2001
- SUNY Health Science Center at BrooklynResidency, Internal Medicine, 1992 - 1996
- S.N. Medical College AgraClass of 1989
Certifications & Licensure
- IL State Medical License 2013 - 2026
- NY State Medical License 2004 - 2026
- MA State Medical License 2001 - 2004
- VA State Medical License 1996 - 2002
- 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
- 12 citationsCounting Matters: Lessons from the Root Cause Analysis of a Retained Surgical ItemAbha Agrawal> ;Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2012 Dec 1
- 121 citationsMedication errors: prevention using information technology systems.Abha Agrawal> ;British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2009 Jun 1
- 36 citationsMedication errors: problems and recommendations from a consensus meetingAbha Agrawal, Jeffrey K Aronson, Nicky Britten, Robin E Ferner, Peter A. G. M. De Smet, Daniela Fialová, Richard Fitzgerald, Robert Likić, Simon Maxwell, Ronald H. B. ...> ;British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2009 Jun 1
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Authored Content
- Patient Safety: A case-based comprehensive guideOctober 2013
Press Mentions
- 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 OthersJanuary 8th, 2021
- 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
- Fellow
- American College of Healthcare ExecutivesFellow
- The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)Founding member, MP Chapter
Other Languages
- Hindi
Hospital Affiliations
- Humboldt Park HealthChicago, Illinois
Industry Relationships
- Advisory Board, Even2022 - Present
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