Cheryl Irmiter, Ph.D, LCSW

Cheryl Irmiter, Ph.D, LCSW is the Founder of One Priority LLC. She is a therapist and has worked along-side and supported physicians as a clinical social worker, educator, researcher, and policy advocate. Whether working together in the emergency room, hospital system, supervising medical residents or psychiatric fellows, or designing continuing education/practice improvement continuing education, Dr. Irmiter has translated researcher into practice and research and clinical experience into policy. She was the senior scientist at the American Medical Association (AMA) in the Division of Science, Medicine, and Public Health and as a policy writer/analyst.

Dr. Irmiter has been in leadership positions nationally and locally for non-profit membership organizations advancing education, policy and research for physicians and other leading professionals. Dr. Irmiter is a national and international presenter and recognized by her peers as a Gerontological Society of American, Research, Policy and Practice Fellow. Throughout her career, she has been an adjunct professor at Loyola University and University of Chicago, and mentored physicians as a clinician, researcher, and administrator.

Throughout her career and through an equity lens, she promotes the best practice and principles to help health care professionals care for the most vulnerable people with multiple-complex chronic disease. 
 

Nikki Hopewell

Nikki Hopewell is a senior communications strategist for diversity, equity and inclusion and a member of the internal communications team in the marketing and communications department at Rush University System for Health. She earned her undergrad and graduate degrees in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is committed to creating connections through storytelling, bringing marginalized folks into the mainstream and championing equity for all.