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Marshall Chin

Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine

Contact Details

University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, IL 60637-1449
Ribbons
Past President

Bio

Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH, FACP, Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, is a general internist with extensive experience improving the care of vulnerable patients with chronic disease. He is Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change National Program Office (www.solvingdisparities.org); Director of the RWJF Reducing Health Care Disparities Through Payment and Delivery System Reform National Program Office; Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research (www.chicagodiabetesresearch.org); Associate Chief and Director of Research in the Section of General Internal Medicine; Co-Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatrics; and Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics (http://macleanethics.uchicago.edu/) at the University of Chicago. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. He is a member of the National Quality Forum Measure Applications Partnership Coordinating Committee and the NQF Risk Adjustment and Socioeconomic Status Expert Panel. Dr. Chin is leading the evaluation of a Commonwealth Fund project that is implementing the patient-centered medical home in 65 safety net clinics across five states. He is also improving diabetes care and outcomes on the South Side of Chicago through health care system and community interventions supported by grants from NIDDK and the Merck Foundation (www.southsidediabetes.org). He serves on AcademyHealth’s Board of Directors, the CDC Community Preventive Services Task Force, the editorial board of Health Services Research, and the RWJF Aligning Forces for Quality National Advisory Committee. He chaired PCORI’s Addressing Health Disparities Review Panel from 2012-2013. Dr. Chin has won mentoring awards from the Society of General Internal Medicine and University of Chicago. Dr. Chin is a graduate of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and completed residency and fellowship training in general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Education

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
M.D., 1989
1985 To 1989

Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
M.P.H., 1994
1992 To 1994

Harvard College
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
A.B., 1985
History and Science
1981 To 1985

Professional Associations

AcademyHealth
1995 - 2014

Society of General Internal Medicine
0 - Present

Job History

University of Chicago
Asst/Assoc/Prof/Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics in the Department of Medicine
Chicago
July 1994 - present

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fellow in General Internal Medicine
Boston, MA, United States
July 1992 - June 1994

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Primary Care Internal Medicine Resident
Boston, MA, United States
June 1989 - June 1992

Honors and Awards

Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar
RWJF
2000,2001,2002,2003,2004

Leaders in General Internal Medicine Award
Midwest SGIM
2004

Mid-Career Research Mentorship Award
SGIM
2008

Sergei S. Zlinkoff Junior Faculty Award
SGIM
1995