Steve Stabile, MD

Stephen is a family doctor and is the Associated Chief Medical Officer of the Ambulatory and Community Health Network, Cook County Health and Hospitals System.  Stephen began his career teaching developmentally disabled adults. After receiving his Master in Health Care Administration, he worked as the director of hospital administrative services for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. It was there that he realized that caring for patients was more fun than attending meetings and he received his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. His commitment to working with under-served and marginalized communities led him to Chicago where he completed his residency in Family Medicine at Cook County Hospital.  Since then, he has practiced in and served as the medical director of a local community health center before returning to the Cook County system in 2001. He practices at the Logan Square Health Center of Cook County.

Stephen has lived in South Africa and Australia.  He has volunteered as a physician in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, The Domnican Republic, Zambia, Brazil and Mexico.  He organized the local global health interest group, Global Health in Chicago.  He serves on the Board of two community health centers and of the state high risk group insurance program. He is actively involved in the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians and a variety of progressive causes. He lives on the north side of Chicago with his partner, Andy, who is a family physician at the Cook County jail.