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A physician, healthcare executive and entrepreneur, has dedicated her career to developing and executing innovative healthcare solutions for underserved populations.
In 2020, Cheryl was elected President of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago after serving on the board for two years. In 2020, she founded the Complete Care Management Partners, LLC and serves at its President and CEO. In 2014, she co-founded NextLevel Health, a groundbreaking insurance company dedicated to helping Cook County’s underserved access and manage Medicaid services addressing health disparities and inequities in services for black women. NextLevel Health was sold in 2020. She is the chair of the State of Illinois Medicaid advisory committee. In 2013, she received the La Rabida Community Leadership Award; in 2015, she received Fifth Third Bank's Community Leaders Award, and was named one of Chicago Business Journal's 2018 Women of Influence, and in 2020 Crain's Notable Women Executives.
From 2011-2013, she served as the inaugural chairman of the Illinois Health Information Exchange Authority, where she guided the State’s effort to create secure data exchange for health information. From 2009 to 2011, she worked as a Senior Program Officer for the Chicago Community Trust, overseeing strategy for all health-related grants—including efforts related to healthcare reform and the health information exchange. She also served as a faculty member at Rush University Medical Center.
Dr. Rucker-Whitaker earned a medical degree at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her clinical training in internal medicine at Stanford University and University of California San Francisco, and a fellowship in health services research at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the Institute of Medicine Chicago, The Chicago Network, The Economic Club of Chicago, Women Business Leaders of the US Healthcare System, and Founding Member of Chief.
