Physician Advisor, SUD Program and Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency
Cook County Health
Juleigh Nowinski Konchak MD MPH is a preventive medicine and public health physician at Cook County Health (CCH) where she is a physician leader for the substance use disorder and recovery support services program. Juleigh is also Program Director for the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at CCH/Northwestern University.
Juleigh previously served as Medical and Community Health Lead for Addiction Services at Heartland Health Outreach, a healthcare for the homeless federally-qualified health center in Chicago. She has a master in public health degree from Northwestern University, completed her preventive medicine and public health residency at CCH in conjunction with Northwestern University, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Prior to her medical training, Juleigh held several public sector roles in policy and public health including Director of Health Systems Integration with the Chicago Department of Public Health, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Health Policy Legislative Assistant at the Office of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama.
