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Stacy Tessler Lindau, MA, MD, is the Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor at the University of Chicago. Stacy's work and her interdisciplinary lab focus on engineering solutions to injustice with the patients and communities they serve. Additionally, she is the founder and chief innovation officer of NowPow, LLC, a social enterprise IT company, and president of MAPSCorps, a community asset mapping organization. Catalyzed by a 2012-2015 Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, these organizations close the information gap about vital community resources while creating meaningful jobs, especially for youth. Also a practicing gynecologist, Stacy leads the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, which seeks to preserve sexual function in women affected by cancer. She is director and founder of WomanLab, a virtual platform to promote preservation of female sexual function after cancer and across the life span, and she was founding chair of the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer. She has been published widely in the highest impact medical journals. Stacy earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan and her medical degree at Brown University. She completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Northwestern University and earned her master’s degree in public policy at the University of Chicago. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Chicago and served the program’s National Advisory Committee. Before medicine, Stacy worked at Wall Street Journal Television, a division of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Stacy is a Fellow of the second class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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