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Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH President-Elect Candidate

Biography

Dr. Murray has spent her career serving the medically under served. She has worked in a variety of settings including a Workers Clinic in Canada, Residency Director at Meharry Medical College, Bureau Chief for the Chicago Department of Health under Mayor Harold Washington. More recently Dr. Murray served as Medical Director of the federally funded health center, Winfield Moody, serving Cabrini Green Public Housing Project in Chicago. Dr. Murray served as Chief Medical Officer - Primary Care  for the twenty three primary care and community  health centers comprising the Ambulatory & Community Health Network of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services, one of the largest public health systems in the nation.

 

Dr. Murray has been an active member of a wide range of local and national organizations including serving as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Board of Directors of Trinity Health ( a large Catholic Health system).

 

Today she serves as the Chief Medical Officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health of the Cook County Health & Hospital System , the state certified public health agency for suburban Cook County. She practices as a general internist at one of the County’s south side community health centers  , is an attending physician in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Stroger (Cook County) Hospital . Dr Murray  is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois School of Public Health (Occupational & Environmental Health and the Health Policy & Administration Departments). She  plays a leadership role in many organizations including NACCHO’s (National Association of City & County Health Officers) Health Equity & Social Justice

Team, and serves on the board of the Chicago based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group.

 

Dr. Murray has been an active member the Illinois Public Health Association and APHA for many years. She has served in a variety of leadership positions in her primary section , Occupational Health and Safety, served on a wide number of APHA committees and has served two terms on APHA’s national executive board.  She has been a voice for social justice and health care as a basic human right for over forty years.

 

Candidate Statement

We remain a nation where racism, class, and gender status still determine the distribution of resources and health status. We have failed to mobilize the political will to provide medical services to all. We have failed to spend adequate resources in prevention activities, confronting the AIDS epidemic, ensuring a healthy environment for our children, guaranteeing a safe and healthy workplace and many other critical public health needs. In such times a strong and vocal APHA is critical.

A basic prerequisite for healthy people is a world at peace. Peace is not possible without social and economic justice. Justice demands that millions of people are in motion fighting for basic dignity and human rights. Today, for the first time in many years, there is an open debate about how to improve the life and health of Americans. APHA must keep our focus on the activities we know will improve health. A national single payer medical insurance system that guarantees universal access to medical care will serve as the first baby step toward needed programs that address the fundamental determinants of population health.

The common ground we stand on in APHA is far wider than our differences of emphasis and choice of tactics. The real answers to our problems will be answered by how we work together in coalition with others to solve these problems. The work of our members, our ability to be better leaders are a necessary prerequisite for building powerful coalitions and will be critical in determining the future health of our nation.

I believe we can stand firmly within the proud traditions of public health and APHA and find a renewed energy and dedication to the vision we share. It is to further our activist tradition that I wish to serve as President-Elect of APHA.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) University of Illinois, Chicago

 

1977:            Doctor of Medicine, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago

 

1980:            Master of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Illinois

 

1996-2000:    Doctoral program in Public Health PEW Health Policy Program, University of Michigan School of Public Health (All but dissertation)

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

 

1994:            Primary Care Policy Fellowship, U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources

 

1984:            Board Certification: Diplomate American College of Preventive Medicine, Occupational Medicine

 

1980:            Board Eligible, Internal Medicine

 

 

          (January - August) Completion of Residency in Occupational Medicine:                                           Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Illinois 

 

1977-1980     JOINT RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine & Occupational Medicine, Cook County Hospital; Chicago, Illinois

 

EMPLOYMENT:

 

2006 - present         Chief Medical Officer - Cook County Department of Public Health , an affiliate of the Cook County Health & Hospital System.

 

The Cook County Department of Public Health is the state certified public health agency for Suburban Cook County (except for Evanston, Skokie, Oak Park and Stickney Township that have their own local health departments). The jurisdiction of the CCDPH covers some 2.4 million people.

 

                   2006 - present : member NACCHO Health Equity & Social Justice Team

 

 

 

 

2003 - March 2007    Chief Medical Officer - Primary Care & Community Health: Ambulatory & Community Health Network of Cook County, an affiliate of the Bureau of Health Services of Cook County.

 

Duties as CMO expanded to include all primary care centers (Fantus and all Community Health Centers of ACHN). Line supervision of all Medical Directors at these centers. 

 

1998 - 2003 Co-Chief Medical Director of the Ambulatory & Community Health Network of Cook County, an affiliate of the Bureau of Health Services of Cook County.

 

Functioning as CMO for the public sector Community Health Centers and Ambulatory Speciality Services of the County of Cook reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer of ACHN.  This network sits within the Bureau of Health Services and delivers 750,000 annual medical visits at over thirty sites in Cook County. The Bureau operates six institutions; Ambulatory & Community Health Network,  Cermak Medical Services , Cook County Department of Public Health, Cook County Hospital, Oak Forest Hospital and Provident Hospital.

Major responsibilities include leadership of ACHN Program and Research Committee.

 

1997-1998:    Medical Director within Ambulatory & Community Health Network of Cook County.

 

Functioning as Medical Director of two community health centers (Englewood Health Center & Woodlawn Health Center) within the system of public sector community health centers run by the County of Cook.

 

1992-1997:    Medical Director, Near North Health Services Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

 

Practicing as a general internist and serving as Medical Director for Near North Health Services Corporation. (NNHSC). NNHSC is a federally funded (330) Community Health Center operating two medical sites. Winfield Moody Health Center serves the Near North/Cabrini Green community. Komed Health Center serves the near south side community. Near North has a staff of approximately 200 and an annual budget of almost ten million dollars. Responsible for clinical leadership, all clinical operations and the corporate Quality Assurance program. As a member of the Illinois Primary Health Care Association served on the Legislative and Policy committee for health centers throughout the state. Represented NNHSC on the board of Community Health Care of Illinois, the corporate structure of the state’s community health centers designed to become an HMO and transition member centers to the managed care arena.

 

1988-1992:    Internist, Anchor Organization for Health Maintenance, Rush Office

                   Hospital Staff: Rush Presbyterian St. Luke

 

 

 

         Interim Clinical Director, Internal Medicine Anchor-Rush

  

Practiced as a general internist in a large, staff model HMO with a medical school affiliation.

 

 

1985-present:          Consultant, International Chemical Worker’s Union

                   Consultant to the union’s health and safety staff.

 

1987 - 1988:  Chicago Department of Health

 

          June 1987 - September 1987: Medical Director, Environmental and Occupational Health

 

          September 1987 - June 1988: Acting Bureau Chief, Bureau of Comprehensive                                                              Environmental/Public Health

 

Reported directly to the Commissioner of Health (under the Washington and Sawyer administrations) for the Bureau with a staff of 370 people and an annual budget of thirteen million dollars. Responsible for all aspects of the operation of the Bureau including personnel matters, preparation of the budget, preparation of grants, creating and monitoring management objectives. Responsible for the communication and liaison with State and Federal Health officials. Established and recruited an Executive Management Team to give leadership to the Bureau’s programs. Directed the reorganization of the Bureau to consist of four divisions covering the traditional areas of public health. (Divisions: Environmental & Occupational Health, AIDS Activity Office, Communicable Disease Control, and Health Regulations) Served as a major public spokesperson for the Department.

 

1985-1987:    Meharry Medical College, Nashville Tennessee

                   Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Occupational Health

                   Director, Environmental & Occupational Medicine

                   Residency Director, Occupational Medicine

 

Directed the Occupational Medicine Residency program. Provided technical information and consultations to unions, businesses, community groups and health professionals. Developed curriculum in the Masters of Science in Public Health program for residents of the General Preventive Medicine Residency as well as Occupational Medicine Residency. Supervised resident research, Journal club and clinical training. Provided supervised rotations and didactic presentations for residents in Internal Medicine and Family Practice programs. Developed and delivered curriculum components in Environmental and Occupational Health for all years of the undergraduate medical education program. Served as Co-chair of the College of Medicine Academic Affairs Committee.

 

 

 

1983-1985:    Medical Director, Manitoba Federation of Labour - Occupational Health Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada

 

A speciality diagnostic center with an operation budget of 340,000 and a staff of six. One of the first Occupational Medicine clinics in Canada. An independent centre controlled by the labour movement. Responsibilities included direct patient care and diagnostic speciality services in occupational medicine, development of medical policies and procedures, supervision and training of clinical staff. Provided expert opinion and testimony before the Worker’s Compensation Board on the work-relatedness of disease and injury. Provided technical information and participated in policy development for departments of governmental and the Provincial Parliament. Represented the Manitoba Federation of Labour on a number of tri-partite committees (Business, Labour, and Government) on the development of legislation and regulations. Curriculum development and implementation of programs to train workers about occupational health and safety issues. Developed and implemented curriculum to train workers to become instructors in Labour Occupational Health and Safety courses. Provision of technical information and support to unions around occupational and environmental health problems. Such support included walk-thrus of plants, evaluation of potential risk in the workplace; negotiation with management to solve problems.

 

1981-1982:    Emergency Room Physician; Bethany Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.

 

1977 - 1980:  Resident Physician, Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

 

1972-1974:    Trauma Registry (Cook County Hospital), Emergency Medical Services, University of Illinois, Chicago.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

2009 - present Adjunct Assistant Professor School of Public Health University of Illinois

                   Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

                   Division of Health Policy and Adminstration

 

1997-present:          Attending Physician ACHN (Woodlawn Health Center)

 

Clinical supervision of undergraduate medical students and residents in office practice. Develop and implement summer seminars in Community Health for summer medical students and college students.

 

1992-1997     Attending Physician Winfield Moody Health Center

Clinical supervision of residents for Cook County Hospital and Northwestern Hospital in a primary care setting.

 

1989 - present: Attending Physician, Division of Environmental & Occupational Medicine,               Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital

 

Supervision of Occupational Medicine and other resident rotating through the Division of Occupational Medicine. Participate in providing core curriculum material in public health and preventive medicine to residents in Primary Care Track of the Internal Medical Residency. Participate in courses at a number of institutions including Northwestern Medical School and the University of Illinois School of Public Health.

 

 

1988-1992:    Rush Medical College, Department of Internal Medicine

                  

Responsibilities included didactic lectures and small group activities in the area of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, as well as clinical teaching of medical students.  Supervision of internal medicine residents in a primary care setting.

 

1985 - 1987   Meharry Medical College, Nashville Tennessee

                   See details in Employment section

 

1983 - 1985   Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,

                   University of Manitoba.

 

Provided faculty support to residents in Preventive Medicine Residency and instructed undergraduate medical students in occupational and environmental health.

 

1983             Mac Lipkin Visiting Professor in Primary Care

                   Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Sciences, City College of New York.

 

1980:            Instructor, Physical Diagnosis Midwifery Program, College of Nursing, University of Illinois.

 

1977 - 1981   Lecturer in Preventive Medicine Curriculum, University of Illinois.

Topics included issues of race, gender and class and their impact on human health; problems of access to health care; historical development of the U.S. Health Care System.

 

1974 - 1975   St. Mary High School, Instructor ( adult education) Mathematics.

 

1968 - 1969   Malcolm X College, Instructor (adult education) Mathematics.

 

1966             Upward Bound - Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland, Ohio

                   Instructor, mathematics

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

2008 - present Metropolitan Chicago Breast Task Force

                   Board member

 

2007 - present: member National Association of City and County Health Officers (NACCHO)                             Strategic Direction team Health Equity and Social Justice

                   2008 : Chair - Local Health Department National Coalition for Health Equity

 

2007 - present: member Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention

 

2005 - 2009 National Executive Board, American Public Health Association

 

2003 - present   Advisory Committee for Master’s in Public Health program of Northwestern                                     University Medical School.

 

1998 - present : member -Great Lakes NIOSH Educational Resource Center at University of Illinois School of                            Public Health Advisory Committee

                         2001 - 2009 Chair

 

1996 - present         Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Chicago, Illinois

                   member of Board

                   1999 - 2002: Vice President

                   2003- 2007:   President

 

1979 - present         Member, American Public Health Association

                   2005-2009     National Executive Board

                   2002-2009:    member Governing Council

                   2002-2003 :   APHA wide Nominating Committee

                   1992 - 1996: National Executive Board

                   1991 - 1996 :          Governing Council

                   1988 - 1991: Committee on Laboratory Standards and Practices

1988- 1989: Policy Development Board Committee - Workplace Drug Testing

                   Member: Occupational Health and Safety Section

                             1989 - 1990 Chair of section

                             1980 - 1981 Secretary of section

                   member of Medical Care Section and Environmental Health Section

                   member of Environmental Health Section

                   member : Black Caucus of Health Workers

                   member: Socialist Caucus

                   associate member: Latino Caucus

 

1988 - present: Member, Illinois Public Health Association

 

1977 - present: Cook County Physicians Association, Chapter of the National Medical                                                     Association.

 

 

 

2000 - 2008     Board of Directors, Trinity Health

Member of the Corporate Board of the fourth largest Catholic Health system in the United States employing almost 45,000 people encompassing 44 hosptials with revenues of $5.7 billion in 2005

                   2003 - present: Chair - Board Committee on Quality Assurance

 

1999 - 2006: Advisory Committee for Master’s in Public Health program at Florida A&M University.

 

 

 

1999 - 2007: IRB member - Cook County Bureau of Health Services.

 

1998 - 2003   Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Presidential appointment to the major scientific advisory committee for this Institute of the Centers for Disease Control.

 

1997-1998     National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Member of Panel on Health and Safety Aspects of Child Labor in the United States.

 

1994 - 1997   Board of Scientific Counselors, Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry, Centers for Disease Control.

 

1991 - 1997   IRB Committee, Laborer’s Union

 

1988 - 1997   Mine Health Research Advisory Committee, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), CDC

 

1987 - 1997   Study Section: Grant Review for Professional Training Programs. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), CDC

 

1982 - present Physicians Forum

                   1985 - 1987 National President

 

1980 - 1995   Chicago Area Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (CACOSH).

 

1989 - 1992   Editorial Board, NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.

 

1991             National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

                   Consultant: Training programs for Hazardous Waste Workers.

 

1991             First National Peoples of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.

                   National Advisory Board member.

 

1990 - 1992   Peer Review Committee - Emergency Response Protocols. Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry.

 

1990 - 1992   Transitional Shelter AIDS Education Project, Advisory Board member.

 

1988 & 1990   Study Section: Grant Review for Training of Hazardous Waste Workers, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.

 

1985-1987     Tennessee Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (TNCOSH)

                   Member, medical committee

 

1985 - 1987   R.F. Boyd Medical Association, Nashville Chapter of the National Medical Association

1983 - 1985   Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation of Manitoba, Canada.

                   Member, Advisory Medical Board

 

1983 - 1985   Canadian Standards Association, Winnipeg Committee Advisory Panel.

 

1978 - 1981   Physician’s National Housestaff Association

                   1978-80 Member, National Council

 

1977 - 1980   Housestaff Association of Cook County Hospital

                   1977 - 1980  Representative’s Council member

                   1978 - 1980 President

 

1974 - 1977   University of Illinois Admissions Committee, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine

 

1973 - 1977   Student National Medical Association

                   University of Illinois Chapter

                             Steering Committee Member

                             Chairperson, Academic Affairs Committee

 

 

COMMUNITY & CIVIC ACTIVITIES

 

2008 - present: Chicago Metropolitan Breast Cancer Task Force. Board member

          

2005 - present: Community Advisory Council, Urban Health Program, University of Illinois                                      Health Sciences Center. (Mission increasing minorities in health professions)

                    2008 - present: Co-Chair

 

1996 - 2001   United Way/ Crusade of Mercy

                   Various committees involved in needs assessments and grant review

                   1999 - 2001 : member Chicago Council

 

1991 - 1997   Community Advisory Council for the Southeast Chicago Project, Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry. Committee chosen by community activists to act as a liaison between the community and ATSDR’s community health evaluation study of the environmental health status in Southeast Chicago

 

1993 - 1997   Community Advisory Council, Urban Health Program, University of Illinois Health Sciences Center.

 

1989 - 1997   AIDS Pastoral Care Network, Board Member

                   1993 - 1996 Treasurer of Board

                    1992 : Vice President of Board

 

 

 

1985 - 1992     First Congressional District of Illinois Health Task Force

                   Congressman Charles Hayes

                   1990 - 1992 Co-Chair

 

1981 - 1983   First Congressional District of Illinois Health Task Force

                   Congressman Harold Washington

 

Both task forces composed of health professional and community residents and was responsible for advising the Congressmen on health policy. Special attention was given to health issues in minority communities and national health reform legislation.

 

1973 - present         National Association Against Racist and Political Repression

                   National Board Member 1978 - 1983

 

1980             Coalition of Labor Union Women, Chicago Chapter

 

1979 - 1980   Lawndale People’s Action Council, Board member

 

1972 - 1977   Editorial Board, AFRICAN AGENDA

 

1972 - 1978   African American Solidarity Committee

 

1966 - 1969   Black Student Organization, University of Chicago

 

1963 - 1966   Congress for Racial Equality, Cleveland, Ohio

 

AWARDS

 

2002             Living Legacy Award: Provident Foundation, Chicago Illinois

 

2000             Distinguished Service in the Health Field, National Association of Minority Medical Educators

 

1998             William Steiger Memorial Award for Contributing to the Advancement of  Occupational Health and Safety.

                   American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Worldwide

 

1997             Delta Omega Society, inducted into the University of Illinois School of Public Health Chapter

 

1996             Daniel Hale Williams M.D. award, Cook County Physician’s Association.

 

1995             Occupational Health & Safety Award, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health

 

1995             Freedom of Choice Award, Chicago Abortion Fund

 

1994             Alice Hamilton Award, Occupational Safety and Health Section of the American Public Health Association

 

1990             Outstanding Achievement Award in the field of Health Services, Young Executives in Politics, Chicago.

 

1986             Health and Safety Award, Manitoba Federation of Labour

 

1980             Yeatman Award, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Chicago Chapter

 

1980             Community Service Award, Westside Journal, Chicago

 

1980             Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Chicago Chapter

 

1978             Intern of the Year, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Kidd-Taylor, A. & Murray, Linda Rae; “Occupational Safety and Health”  in  Levy, Barry and Sidel, Victor (eds)   Social Injustice and Public Health   Oxford University Press 2006.

 

Murray, Linda Rae & Rubin, Rachel ; “Environmental Justice” in Rosenstock, Linda ; Cullen, Mark R. ; Brodkin, Carl.(eds)  Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine.Second Edition.   Elsevier Science. 2004

 

Murray, Linda Rae; Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Scientific Evidence, Methods and Research Implications for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Occupational Health. Am J. Public Health 2003; 93:221-226.

 

Kidd-Taylor, A. & Murray, Linda Rae; “Occupational Health of Minority Workers” in Levy, Barry and Wegman, David  Occupational Health: Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Disease and Injury.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Fourth edition December, 1999

 

Murray, Linda Rae; “Occupational Health”in Blumenthal, David & Rutenber, A. James; Introduction to Environmental Health, Second Edition, Springer Publisher, New York, 1995.

 

Murray, Linda Rae ; “Principles of Occupational Health” in Bone, Roger C. & Rosen, Robert L.; Quick Reference to Internal Medicine in Outline Format. Igaku-shoin Press, 1994.

 

Murray, Linda Rae; “The Politics of Pollution Prevention” (Guest Editorial) New Solutions; A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 2:3 (1991).
 
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