Rachel Caskey, MD, MPP
Professor Medicine and Pediatrics
Head, Department of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
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CSB 1020N, MC 787
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About
Rachel Caskey, MD, MPP is the former Program Director for the MedPeds residency program and is now head of the department of medicine. She is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, and a health services researcher. 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.
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.