Saturday, September 6th
11:30am CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage

Ross A Slotten, MD, MPH is a family physician and HIV/AIDS specialist currently affiliated with the Ascension Medical Group, St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He has been in practice since 1984. He received a BA in Classics and BS in Biology from Stanford University (1977) and his medical degree from Northwestern University (1981). He completed his internship and residency in Family Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago (1981-84). He also has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois in Chicago (1992). From 1981-90 he was a volunteer at Howard Brown Memorial Clinic and served both on the board and as co-medical director of the clinic (now known as Howard Brown Health Center). In 1988, he co-founded 11 West, St. Joseph Hospital’s AIDS unit. During the 1990s, he served on the board of Bonaventure House, which provided housing for unhoused people with HIV infection. He is the author of AIDS in Namibia, published in Social Science & Medicine, July 1985; The Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace (Columbia University Press, 2004); and Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2020).