Erie Family Health Center

Erie’s Executive Leadership Team

Lee Francis, MD, MPH
President and CEO

Dr. Francis was appointed President and CEO by Erie’s board of directors in September 2007. Since starting this leadership role at Erie, he has led organization toward some notable accomplishments, including the implementation of electronic health record systems at all of Erie’s sites; the expansion of oral health services;  a strong financial bottom line; the development of Erie’s 2010 Strategic Plan; and the expansion of Erie’s board of directors. Dr. Francis works with the Executive Leadership Team, the Quality Improvement Department and with Erie’s Board of Directors to ensure that Erie is a leader in quality care. He is also charged with ensuring the strategic growth of the organization. In addition to his executive responsibilities, Dr. Francis is still a practicing Internist and sees adult patients on a regular basis at Erie.

Dr. Francis served as national president of the Physicians for Social Responsibility in 2001 and was a member of the board of directors for 15 years. He was selected as a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow in 2000. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, a volunteer position, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

He joined Erie Family Health Center in 1991 as an Internist and served as its medical director from 2001-2007. Prior to becoming medical director, he spent ten years dividing his time between Erie and Cook County Hospital. Dr. Francis completed his medical training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He is a graduate of Amherst College, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.

 

 

David R. Buchanan, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Buchanan joined the Erie team as Chief Medical Officer in 2008. He oversees all medical providers, working to continuously improve the quality of Erie’s health care services. As a general internist, Dr. Buchanan also sees adult patients in Erie’s Health Centers. His current work as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University focuses on the health and economic impact of housing homeless individuals and on quality improvement in primary care settings.

Before joining Erie, Dr. Buchanan was the Section Head for Social Medicine at John Stroger Hospital of Cook County (formerly Cook County Hospital) for five years. He also previously served as the Medical Director for two homeless shelters from 2001 to 2008 and as an Advocacy Fellow with the Institute on Medicine as a Profession.

Dr. Buchanan completed a residency program in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in 1999, after completing an undergraduate degree in Economics at MIT and a medical degree at the University of Chicago. He also completed a Master of Science in Clinical Research at Rush University in 2007. His past work includes the development and evaluation of curriculum regarding the clinical care of people experiencing homelessness.

 

Kevin Greenberg
Vice President of Finance

Kevin Greenberg, MBA joins Erie Family Health Center from the Jewish United Fund where he held the position as Controller. He joined Erie on May 2, 2011 and  he will serve as the Senior Financial Executive on Erie’s management leadership team. A native of New York City, Kevin grew up in Staten Island. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in Accounting. After thumbing through a copy of a US News & World Report, a write up on the booming careers in health care administration caught his eye. Kevin went forth to get his MBA in Health Care Administration from Baruch College/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

Kevin brings 15 years of progressive experience in non-profit and health care financial management to Erie Family Health Center. He was drawn to Erie for one simple reason – Erie’s mission.

 

 

Luz Jimenez, RN
Vice President, Clinical Operations

Ms. Jimenez joined Erie Family Health Center in 2000. With a strong commitment to clinical quality and 24 years of clinical experience, Ms. Jimenez served as Director of Health Center Operations at Erie West Town from 2001-2007. As the Vice President of Clinical Operations, she continues to display her commitment to Erie’s mission and dedicates her work to improving patient access to care. Her superb clinical and management skills have lead to the successful implementation of an electronic health record system at Erie’s two largest sites. She is also working with the Quality Improvement Department to move Erie toward Joint Commission accreditation.

Ms. Jimenez has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree from North Park University.

 

Iliana A. Mora, MUPP
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Operations

Ms. Mora is responsible for leading the strategy of the organization, in collaboration with the President and CEO, and oversees Erie’s strategic operations.

Strategy responsibilities include assisting with the planning and execution of the strategic plan. Operations responsibilities include oversight of the organization’s Development Department, Case Management, Health Promotion and School-Based Health Departments, as well as HIV services and facilities capital projects and operations.

Ms. Mora joined Erie Health Center in 2002 as an associate in the Development Department. For the past four years she has served as Vice President of Development and Community Relations. She has a broad and creative perspective on the role of health centers in providing services to those in greatest needs. She has a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois, Chicago and was a 2007-2008 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow.

 

Ghassan “Gus” Souri , DDS
Vice President, Oral Health Services

Dr. Souri oversees Erie’s growing Oral Health program. He joined Erie in 2005 to help open Erie’s first dental health center in Albany Park. Given the great success of the first dental health center and the continued demand for these services in Chicago’s underserved communities, Dr. Souri helped Erie expand its services. In 2007 — just two years after the doors of Erie’s first oral health clinic opened — Erie’s second dental center in Humboldt Park opened its doors to the community. Under Dr. Souri’s leadership, Erie’s oral health program secured its first federal grant in 2008 to support the oral health program’s expansion.

Previous to his work at Erie, Dr. Souri was Dental Director at the Infant Welfare Society. In 1999, Dr. Souri became a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and, in 2003, he received the Illinois Primary Health Care Clinician Devotion Award. Dr. Souri received his degree in dentistry from the Damascus University School of Dentistry in Syria and took postgraduate studies at Loyola University School of Dentistry. He also completed a pediatric dentistry residency at Mott Children’s Health Center/Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan. In addition to his work at Erie, Dr. Souri serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Dentistry.

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