Please submit any questions you have for the May 8th session with Dr. Nathan Chomilo.
Presentation Title: Healing our Systems through Community and Solidarity
Presentation Abstract: Our health care system has been described more aptly as a sick care system. Dr. Chomilo will illustrate through reflection on past and current efforts to address health equity how the path to healing our health care system lies in community and authentic solidarity.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Nathan T. Chomilo’s work has centered on the impact early childhood intervention and healthcare access have on the long-term prospects of our children and how physicians and health systems can address racial & health equity. He is the Medical Director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid & MinnesotaCare programs and practices as a General Pediatrician with Park Nicollet Health Services/HealthPartners. He also served as the State of Minnesota’s COVID-19 vaccine equity director and as a Senior Advisor on Equity to the Minnesota Commissioner of Health. He is an executive committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion, serves on the board of Reach Out and Read and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has been recognized by the City of Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights as a 2019 History Maker at Home recipient, the Minnesota Medical Association, which awarded him the President’s Award in 2021, the Aspen Institute which selected him to be an Aspen Ascend Fellow in 2022 and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health whose graduating class selected him to be the invited keynote speaker for their 2022 commencement ceremony. In 2023 he was selected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Youth through Health Care System Transformation and named to The Lancet’s Commission on Antiracism in Solidarity. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife & sons.
