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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING DR. MARINA DEL RIOS FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE TO COOK COUNTY
WHEREAS, Doctor Marina Del Rios is an emergency physician with over six-teen years of experience working in tertiary care hospitals serving marginalized communities in Chicago and New York City while conducting research in resuscitation science, population health, and health disparities; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2002 and her master's degree from Cornell University in 2007; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios served as an emergency medicine physician with the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios was the Director of Social Emergency Medicine and Tenured Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois at Chicago; and
WHEREAS, her research has received competitive funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, Medtronic Philanthropy, and the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios is a physician in the frontlines working as a nocturnist in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic, first in the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago and now in the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios has a deep commitment to service, spending her time outside of her clinical, research, and teaching responsibilities as a volunteer for multiple health and community service agencies; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios is a founding member of the Illinois Heart Rescue Project, a state-wide quality improvement project with the mission to ensure that every victim of out of hospital cardiac arrest receives evidence-based care in the field, in route to, and in the hospital; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Del Rios has served with the Illinois Department of Public Health COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, the Restore Illinois Hea...
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