47th CHEF Annual Meeting and Awards Presentation, Thursday, February 23, 2023

Plan to attend CHEF’s most well-attended event of the year. Attendees will enjoy a light reception and strolling dinner while networking with colleagues and peers. Our ACHE Regent, Georgia Casciato, FACHE and our Awards Committee Chairs will present to you our 2022 Award Recipients:

ACHE Awards:
Career Achievement Award:
Jim Skogsbergh, FACHE, Advocate Health

Healthcare Leadership Award:
Ian Jasenof, MD, FACOG, MHA, CPE, UI Mile Square Health Center
Mary Katherine Krause, MS-HSM, FACHE, College of American Pathologists

Health Studies Student Leadership Award:
Viviana Nguyen, Loyola University
Rush HSM Student Career Services Team:  Zia Bari, Sohil Brahmbhatt, Mary Kate McGuire, Uddish Mondal, Madeline Moody and Cameron Taylor
UIC MHA CHEF Inaugural Student Committee:  Anu Cheemarla, Tanya Deepesh, Parisha Sangani and Nikki Silber

CHEF Awards:
Community Leadership Award:
Jay Bhatt D.O., M.P.H., M.P.A., F.A.C.P., Deloitte and Family Christian Health Center
Tzvi Montrose, CPA, Hatzalah Chicago

Young Healthcare Executive Award:
Blake Lindley, MHA, FACHE, NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health

Innovations Award:
South Side Healthy Community Organization

Service Excellence Award:
Brahamjit Raghav, Director of Radiology and Radiology Team, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

NEW! Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award:
Abha Agrawal, MD, FACP, FACHE, Humboldt Park Health
Airica Steed, Ed.D, MBA, RN, FACHE, Metro Health (formerly Sinai Chicago)

Following our awards presentations, our Keynote Presentation: Choosing Leadership – Skill Enhancement for Healthcare Leaders, will be given by Linda E. Ginzel, reknowned Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her recent book, Choosing Leadership, helps readers to develop what she terms Leadership Capital: the courage, wisdom and capacity to decide when to manage and when to lead. She specializes in negotiation skills, managerial psychology, leadership and executive development.

Do you know that leadership is a choice? In the new and expanded version of her bestselling book, Choosing Leadership: How to Create a Better Future by Building Your Courage, Capacity, and Wisdom, Ginzel offers tools to sharpen your leadership skills, putting the responsibility for personal growth and professional development firmly in your own hands. The award-winning leadership teacher, lifelong educator, University of Chicago professor, and consumer advocate wants everyone to choose leadership to create a better future by building courage, capacity, and wisdom. Ginzel believes leadership development is not only for those in the business world but in all areas of life.

Upon conclusion of the Keynote Presentation, Ginzel will moderate our panel discussion featuring Matthew M. Anderson, PhD, MS-HSM, Associate Professor and Chair at the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health at Loyola University, Herbert C. Buchanan, Jr., President and CEO of UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook and James S. Williams Jr., Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, UChicago Medicine | Urban Health Initiative. The panel will discuss the lessons and exercises covered in Ginzel’s Choosing Leadership workbook as well as share their personal perspectives on leadership.

The evening’s schedule:

5:00 – 6:30pm – Networking, Reception and Strolling Dinner
6:30 – 7:15pm – Awards Presentation, Recognition of the 2022 CHEF Board of Directors and Introduction of 2023 Board
7:15pm – Keynote Presentation and Panel Discussion

Early Bird Pricing (does not include processing fees):

ACHE/CHEF Member: $98.00
Non-Member: $115.00
Student: $59.00
Table of 8: $784.00