Rachel Caskey, MD, MAPP
Earl M. Bane Professor and Head, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Department of Medicine, Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
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About
Dr. Caskey is a national leader in the field of maternal child health. She combines her clinical interest in women’s health with her public health interest in population health to develop a research platform focused on health care delivery through scalable behavior change interventions. She is a health services researcher focused on novel system-level changes to health care settings to improve outcomes for women and children; with an emphasis on improving access to care for postpartum women and reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. She is Principal Investigator on several federally funded grants.
Dr. Caskey has an appointment at UIC’s school of public health in the Division of Maternal Child Health where she has taught core courses on health outcomes. She is a member of the UIC Cancer Center where she collaborates on efforts to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer. Dr. Caskey has considerable experience working with the State of Illinois, City of Chicago, and the state Medicaid office. She is often asked to provide content expertise on state Medicaid healthcare policy and pharmacy coverage policy decisions. She partners with the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) on several large research and public health programing efforts. Finally, she has been invited to sit on several city- and state-wide task forces targeting health disparities and prevention activities.
Education and mentorship remain a core pillar of her career. She co-leads the NIH-funded Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER) T32 postdoctoral training program. She was a residency program director for over seven years and mentors junior faculty and trainees and of all levels. She has received several awards for her teaching and mentorship.
She received her MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. After residency, Dr. Caskey completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago, and a master’s in public policy (healthcare policy track) at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She has been on faculty at UIC for over 15 years and has held several leadership roles at UIC. In February 2024 she was appointed Head of the Department of Medicine.
Notable Honors
2016, Departmental Faculty of the Year Award, UIC College of Medicine
2014, Adolescent Health Award, for Health4Chicago School-located vaccination program, Chicago Department of Health
2014, Travel Award, Translational Science National Meeting, Burroughs-Welcome Fund
2014, Top Doctor Award, Doctors of Excellence
2010, 2011, 2013, Excellence in Teaching Faculty Award, Department of Medicine
Education
Medical School: Jefferson Medical College
Residency: University of Michigan
Fellowship: University of Chicago