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Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, FACP

Professor of Healthcare Ethics, University of Chicago Hospital Health System

Dr. Marshall Chin is the Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Co-Chair of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network Health Equity Advisory Team, and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems Transformation National Program Office. Dr. Chin is a practicing general internist and health services researcher. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

Marshall H. Chin, M.D., M.P.H., Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago, is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has dedicated his career to advancing health equity through interventions at individual, organizational, community, and policy levels. Through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advancing Health Equity program, Dr. Chin collaborates with teams of state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations, frontline healthcare delivery organizations, and community-based organizations to implement payment reforms to support and incentivize care transformations that advance health equity. He also co-chairs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network Health Equity Advisory Team. Dr. Chin partners with eight urban and rural communities to integrate medical and social care to reduce diabetes disparities through the Merck Foundation Bridging the Gap program, and he co-directs the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research. He is Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and applies ethical principles to reforms that advance health equity and discussions about advocating for patients. Dr. Chin is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, and he completed residency and fellowship training in general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is a former President of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Chin was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.