Thursday, October 20, 2011
Speaker: Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP, FACOG, Associate Professor, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
Host: PricewaterhouseCoopers
As a senior member of the University of Chicago’s Urban Health Initiative, Dr. Lindau also directs the South Side Health and Vitality Studies. This is an ongoing project that uses an Asset Census and home-based health research to identify and catalogue the commercial, health, social and civic resources available in the 34 communities that make up the South Side of Chicago. Working in partnership with community residents and organizations to collect data, the project aims to provide comprehensive data about the resources currently available to the South Side community that influence the health and wellness of its residents.
Dr. Lindau will be accompanied by one of the lead community collaborators with the South Side Health and Vitality Studies, Mr. Ernest Sanders, New Communities Program Manager at the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation, and two student mappers, Ms. Elizabeth Tolbert and Ms. Trevora Jasper, who participated in the 2011 Asset Census.
Dr. Lindau is an Associate Professor, Pritzker School of Medicine, Departments of Ob/Gyn and Medicine-Geriatrics and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also on the faculty in the MacLean Center on Clinical Medical Ethics. A respected physician scientist, Dr. Lindau studies life course sexuality at the population level and how sexuality affects and is affected by illness and aging. In addition to her M.D., Dr. Lindau has a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago. Her laboratory work addresses population health, health policy and educational issues with relevance to women’s health, sexuality and aging, and health disparities.