Senior Faculty Scholars

Dr. Alisa McQueen received her MD from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2008, Dr. McQueen joined the UofC faculty and is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and an Attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Comer Children’s Hospital. As the Program Director for the newly established fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine, she focuses on graduate medical education and is particularly interested in the use of simulation to help train residents and fellows in pediatric resuscitation, difficult conversations in the emergency department, and facilitating family presence during pediatric procedures and resuscitation. Dr. McQueen is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. McQueen is currently on the faculty at Cook County Hospital.

Dr. David Meltzer is Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences and the UChicago Urban Health Lab, and Chair of the Committee on Clinical and Translational Science at The University of Chicago, where he is The Fanny L. Pritzker Professor in the Department of Medicine, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Department of Economics. Dr. Meltzer’s research explores problems in health economics and public policy with a focus on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis and the cost and quality of hospital care. Meltzer completed his MD and PhD in economics at the University of Chicago and his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His awards include the Garfield Award from Research America, the AHRQ Eisenberg Excellence in Mentoring Award, and the AAMC Learning Healthcare System Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Miller is the inaugural director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality at the University of Chicago. The Center for Community Health and Vitality’s mission is to improve population health outcomes for residents on the South Side of Chicago through community-engaged research, demonstration and service models.

Prior to joining the University of Chicago in 2009, she served as national program director of New Health Partnerships, a demonstration project funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation on collaborative self-management support. Dr. Miller is also a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Miller worked for 5 years as a program vice-president at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation where she was responsible for strategic planning and program design in the clinical quality improvement area, using clinical and community-based strategies. Programs developed under her direction include demonstration projects designed to help improve the quality of care for people with chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and depression. Dr. Miller’s work in the area of improving asthma outcomes through school and community interventions was noted by the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology with a 2006 Special Recognition Award. Dr. Miller was a member of the 2002 Institute of Medicine committee that produced the report, Guidance for the National Healthcare Disparities Report. In 1993 Dr. Miller was recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Leadership Program for her community-based efforts in improving the health and well-being of grandparents raising their grandchildren through an initiative called, Grandparents Who Care.

A general internist, Dr. Miller cares for patients in the Primary Care Group at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Michael Millis, MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago since 1994 is the Chief of the Section of Transplantation and Director of the University of Chicago Transplant Center. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. He is an internationally renowned expert in pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Dr. Millis has pioneered new techniques of operating on the liver, and has performed more liver transplants than any other surgeon in the region. He is know for his clinical technical skills as well as developing supportive relationships with his patients and their families.

Recognized for his successful interactions with China and other resource challenged areas, lead to his appointment as Vice Chair for Global Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine in 2015. His goal is to broaden efforts to the increasingly important emerging area of Global Surgery, coordinate and strengthen clinical, research, educational, and humanitarian efforts for faculty, trainees, and students.

Dr. Millis’s research explores the application of cellular technology to patient care. For instance, he is investigating how hepatocyte transplantation, extracorporeal assist technology and stem cells can assist in the care of patients with liver disease or liver tumors. His research interests also include health and policy ethics. He is currently engaged with former Vice Minister of Health of the People’s Republic of China and current Director of the Organ Transplant and Donor Committee, Jiefu Huang, to help improve the practice and policy of transplantation in China, which is supported by the China Medical Board. He has been instrumental in assisting China move from the use of organs from executed prisoners to a voluntary citizen based organ donation system. He has co-authored articles published in high profile journals such as Lancet with Vice Minister Huang regarding changes in transplant regulation and policy in China.

Dr. Millis has been host to dozens of physicians and scientists from China desiring clinical and scientific experience in the United States. His focus in surgical research has been clinical and translational studies aimed primarily on improving graft and patient survival suffering from liver disease. In addition he has organized multiple clinical trials in China and is also a member of Chicago’s Sister City Committee. Dr. Millis has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles in medical journals and has visited and lectured at hundreds of universities and medical centers around the world.

1954-2018

Dr. Anthony Montag was a Professor of Pathology and the Associate Dean of Admissions for the Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Montag attended the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he also completed an Internal Medicine internship and Clinical Pathology residency. He completed an Anatomic Pathology residency and Gynecologic Pathology fellowship at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and was recruited to the Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecologic faculties at the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Montag’s academic interests included clinical and translational work on ovarian and uterine carcinoma and bone and soft tissue tumors.

Dr. Montag taught medical and graduate students at the University of Chicago for over 30 years, and trained nearly two hundred Pathology residents and fellows. He received the medical school’s favorite faculty award six times, an AOA teaching award, and election to the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. In medical school admissions he focused on increasing the diversity of the matriculating class and recruiting empathetic students with a history of service to others.

Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, MD was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, and completed her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her orthopaedic surgery residency and trauma fellowship at Brown University. She went on to do a hand surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and has been on the faculties of the University of Colorado and the University of Connecticut. She joined The University of Chicago in 2016, where her clinical and research interests include the impact of hormones on basilar thumb arthritis, lateral epicondylitis, atypical nerve compression, and osteoporosis. She holds a Department of Defense grant to study the impact of Vitamin D on post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

She is currently the deputy editor in chief for the Journal of Hand Surgery, as well as the hand surgery fellowship director at the University of Chicago. She has been on the governing Council for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand for the past 4 years, first as a member-at-large, and as the treasurer.

She spends her free time with her husband and two sons, and enjoys distance running and traveling.

Dr. Edward T. Naureckas is the Vice President of the Medical Staff at the University of Chicago Medicine and a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care. He is the Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, the Asthma and COPD Center and the Adult Pulmonary Function Laboratory at the University of Chicago. Dr. Naureckas received his MD from Washington University School of Medicine and performed his residency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Hospital. He completed his subspecialty fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Naureckas is a distinguished teacher and clinician, and has received several Outstanding Teacher Awards. He is a recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award as well as the University of Chicago Medicine Department of Social Work Humanism award. Nationally, Dr. Naureck has served as the Chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Guidelines Steering Committee.

Douglas Nordli, Jr., MD, is a Professor and Chief of the Section of Child Neurology within the department of pediatrics at the University of Chicago.

After earning his medical degree (AOA) from Columbia University, Dr. Nordli completed a pediatrics residency, followed by a child neurology residency and a postdoctoral clinical fellow in EEG and epilepsy at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Nordli has published more than 100 original, peer-reviewed studies with research focusing on epilepsy classification, epilepsy surgery, infantile epilepsy, febrile seizures and the ketogenic diet.

Dr. Olopade, a board certified internist and medical oncologist, is the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Dean for Global Health and Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at The University of Chicago. Dr. Olopade earned her medical degree from the University of Ibadan College of Medicine in Nigeria. She trained in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and in oncology, hematology and cancer genetics at the Joint Section of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Chicago.

A leader in cancer genetics, Dr. Olopade studies familial forms of cancers, molecular mechanisms of tumor progression in high-risk individuals as well as genetic and non-genetic factors contributing to tumor progression in diverse populations. Her current laboratory research is focused on using whole genome technologies and bioinformatics to develop innovative approaches to democratize precision health care for all and thereby reduce global health disparities.

Dr. Olopade is an expert in cancer risk assessment and individualized treatment for the most aggressive forms of breast cancer based on an understanding of the altered genes in individual patients. She stresses comprehensive risk reducing strategies and prevention in high-risk populations, as well as earlier detection through advanced imaging technologies.

Dr. Olopade is an at-large member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. She is also an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has received numerous honors and awards, including honorary degrees from Bowdoin University, Princeton University, North Central College and Dominican University, Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist and Exceptional Mentor Award, American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Officer of the Order of the Nigeria Award, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Award. Dr. Olopade currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Cancer Advisory Board, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Lyric Opera.

Dr. Sola Olopade is Clinical Director at the Center for Global Health and director of international programs at the Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Olopade graduated from the University of Ibadan Medical School, Nigeria in 1980. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital and fellowship in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Olopade holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed an ethics fellowship at the MacLean Center and now teaches responsible conduct of research and ethics of international medicine and research. He assisted the University of Ibadan, in developing their Ethics Board with federal-wide assurance certification. Dr. Olopade has received many honors, including the American College of Chest Physicians Humanitarian Award in 2006 and 2010 and Chicago Magazine’s Top Doctor since 2011.