JOANNE G. SCHWARTZBERG, MD

Dr. Schwartzberg is Director of Aging and Community Health at the American Medical Association and Senior Science Advisor on Health Literacy at the American Medical Association Foundation.. She received her B.A. from Harvard and M.D. from Northwestern and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Dr. Schwartzberg is a past-president of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, the Illinois Geriatrics Society, and the American Academy of Home Care Physicians.
In 1988 she received the Physician of the Year Award from the National Association for Home Care. In 1992 she received the Physician of the Year Award from the American Academy of Home Care Physicians. In 1995 she served as co-chair of the Illinois Delegation to the White House Conference on Aging, Caucus on Health and Social Services. She also served as AMA liason to the National Patient Safety Foundation's Partnership for Safe Medication Use – Educating and Empowering the Health Consumer.

She is the 2001 recipient of the Henry P. Russe, MD “Citation for Exemplary Compassion in Healthcare” awarded by the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and the Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Medical Center.