Marshall Chin, M.D., M.P.H., is the Richard Parrillo Family professor of Healthcare Ethics in the University of Chicago’s Department of Medicine. Dr. Chin is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has dedicated his career to reducing health disparities through interventions at individual, organizational, community, and policy levels.
Dr. Chin co-chairs the HCPLAN’s Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT). He also co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems Transformation national program office and collaborates with teams of state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations, and frontline health care organizations to implement payment reforms to support and incentivize care transformations that advance health equity. He partners with eight urban and rural communities to integrate medical and social care to reduce diabetes disparities through the Merck Foundation’s Bridging the Gap program.
Dr. Chin is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. 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. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and is currently a member of its council.