Student Life

Pritzker Free Clinics

Pritzker's six student-run Community Free Clinics are located throughout the Chicagoland area.

The mission of our free clinics is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. To accomplish this mission, interprofessional teams call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and further the knowledge of those dedicated to caring.

We have six community clinics throughout Chicago—the West, North, and South Sides—treating uninsured patients in communities that are underserved by the healthcare system in a variety of cultural contexts: Hispanic neighborhoods, a shelter for homeless women and children, and an Asian-American immigrant population, among others. These clinics a) provide excellent patient care, b) allow our students to gain hands-on experience in both patient care and medical service, and c) provide leadership opportunities for our students in the realm of clinic management and community outreach.

Over 90% of our trainees pursue work at our free clinics and list these experiences as among the most meaningful activities of their medical school career. This service work is an investment in medical training that can serve the community at the same time: with a successful free clinic program, underserved patients in areas without accessible health care can receive treatment, and medical students can begin to build service work into their practice, integrating it into their future careers. All our Free Clinics require that medical student patient care is supervised by a fully-licensed physician for clinic to run (includes UChicago & Northshore Faculty, Fellows, or Chief Residents). 

In one year*, Pritzker’s Six Free Clinics have:

  • Held 140 Clinic Sessions
  • Have seen 507 Patients 
  • Involved 243 individual Student volunteers (most volunteer 3x or more!)
  • Involved 53 individual Preceptors (many volunteer 2x or more!)
  • Involved 41 Resident Volunteers

*Data pulled from March 2023 through March 2024 reports.

Interested in being a Preceptor Volunteer at the Pritzker Free Clinics?

Sign up to precept at one of the six Free Clinics 
HERE: https://time-portal.uchicago.edu/FreeClinic

Questions? Email Dr. Wei Wei Lee at wlee2@uchicagomedicine.org

2024-2025 Free Clinic Faculty Advisors

Our free clinic faculty advisors play a crucial role in providing ongoing mentorship to the student leadership boards of our free clinics. They regularly serve as preceptors during clinic sessions, ensuring both exceptional patient care and enriching hands-on learning experiences.

Arti Tewari, MD

Arti D. Tewari, MD

Advisor to the SEVA Free Clinic

David Hampton, MD

David Hampton, MD

Advisor to South Side Free Clinic

UChicago Shield

Diandra Lucia, MD

Advisor to the Maria Shelter Free Clinic

Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD

Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD

Advisor to CommunityHealth Free Clinic

Icy Cade Bell, MD

Icy Cade-Bell, MD

Advisor to the Washington Park Free Clinic

John Yoon, MD

John Yoon, MD

Advisor to Bridgeport Free Clinic

Jonathan Lio, MD

Jonathan Lio, MD

Advisor to Bridgeport Free Clinic

Sonia Oyola, MD

Advisor to Maria Shelter Free Clinic and South Side Free Clinic

William Parker, MD, MPH

William Parker, MD, PhD

Advisor to CommunityHealth Free Clinic

Recognizing our Free Clinic
Preceptor Volunteers

The success of our free clinics would not be possible without the service and commitment of our free clinic faculty, fellow and chief-resident volunteers who work alongside our students at each clinic session.  Over the past year, the following preceptor volunteers have made a significant impact on our students, patients, and communities through their clinical work and teaching at our free clinics:

Thank you to every Preceptor Volunteer – our Free Clinics could not operate without you!

Department

Section

Preceptor

Family Medicine

 

Allison Law
Paulo Aranas
Puja Turakhia
Sonia Oyola
Victoria Andros

Medicine

Dermatology

Angad Chadha
Bernhard Ortel
Sarah Stein

 

Emergency Medicine

Willard Sharp

 

Gastroenterology Fellow

Ross McMillan

 

General Internal Medicine

Andrew Davis
Dedeepya Konuthula
Doriane Miller
Elizabeth Tung
Jing Bo Wu
Monica Peek
Neda Laiteerapong
Samuel Trump
Susan Nasr

 

Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Andrea Landi
Stacie Levine

 

Hematologist-Oncologist 

Anand Patel

 

Hospital Medicine

Alexandre Zaharia
Brian Ralston
Caleb Murphy
Daniel Aldrich
Edwin Rosas
Ethan Molitch-Hou
John Yoon
Jonathan Lio
Muhammad Raza Aftab
Ashley Brown

 

Nephrology

Arlene Chapman

 

Pulmonary and Critical Care

John McConville
William Parker

 

Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow

Mario Fonseca
Rachel Strykowski

 

Rheumatology

Kichul Ko

Obstetrics and Gynecology

General Obstetrics and Gynecology

Carrie Smith 
Perpetua Goodall

Pediatrics

Academic Pediatrics

Barrett Fromme
Icy Cade-Bell

 

Allergy and Immunology

Ruchi Singla

 

Chief Resident 

Chidimma Acholonu

 

Gastroenterology Fellow

Andrea Berkemeyer

 

Infectious Diseases

Julia Rosebush
Madan Kumar

 

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Shannon Doyle 

 

Rheumatology Fellow 

Ryan Mitacek

Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Adult Psychiatry

Diandra Lucia
Dustin Ehsan

 

Chief Resident 

Zachary Bean

Surgery

Trauma Surgery

David Hampton

*Data pulled from March 2023 through March 2024 reports. 

Interested in being a Preceptor Volunteer at the Pritzker Free Clinics?

Sign up to precept at one of the six Free Clinics 
HERE: https://time-portal.uchicago.edu/FreeClinic

All our Free Clinics require that medical student patient care is supervised by a fully-licensed* physician for clinic to run (includes UChicago & Northshore Faculty, Fellows, and Chief Residents).
If there is not a fully-licensed preceptor supervising, clinic has to be canceled.

*Resident physicians are not fully-independently licensed and are not able to serve as preceptors.