US to battle race-based disparity in health care, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program at Cook County Hospital, in 1984. In 1995, Ansell left Cook County Hospital to become Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine of Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, the city's largest private safety-net hospital. Among other activities at Mount Sinai, in 2002 he founded the Sinai Urban Health Institute a major health-disparity research and intervention center along with the late Steven Whitman, PhD who served as its director. In 2006, he and Dr. Whitman helped expose the racial breast cancer mortality gap in Chicago in an article they published. In response, they joined with others to found the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, a group dedicated to the elimination of this disparity in the Chicago area. In 2015, Ansell helped found the DePaul-Rush Center for Community Health Equity a Chicago-based health equity educational and research center based at DePaul University and Rush University Medical Center. Leadership Positions Division Chief, Division of General Medicine/Primary Care, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1993-1995 Chairperson, Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1995-2005 Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 2005–2015 Senior Vice President for System Integration/Community Health at Rush University Medical Center. Chicago, IL, 2015 to present. Published books Ansell first book was entitled, County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital. In the book, Ansell tells the story of his patients and colleagues during his seventeen years as a resident and attending physician at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, one of America’s premier public hospitals. County was released on July 1, 2011 and received positive reviews, The Wall Street Journal named it " one of the five best health books of 2011. His second book is entitled The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, and was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017 References American primary care physicians American healthcare managers Writers from Chicago 1952 births Living people Writers from Binghamton, New York Activists from New York (state)