HCC Chicago was initiated in 2015 as a partnership between Loyola School of Medicine and J. Sterling Morton West High School. In 2026, Oak Park and River Forest High School was added as an additional high school partner.
The faculty sponsors of the program at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine are Dr. Theresa Nguyen, Director of the Center for Community and Global Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Kevin Boblick, Assistant Director, Center for Community and Global Health and Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine / Pediatrics.
Theresa Nguyen, MD, FACEP
Director of the Center for Community and Global Health
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Stritch School of Medicine
Kevin Boblick, MD
HCC Faculty Sponsor
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine / Pediatrics;
Assistant Director, Center for Community & Global Health, Stritch School of Medicine
At Morton West High School, HCC is led by Assistant Principal, Ms. Amanda Torres, and Ms. Araceli Torres-Proa, a parent Liaison, who helps coordinate HCC.
Loyola Stritch HCC medical student group (click for link)
In 2015, medical students Lindsay Gil and Max Drescher were recipients of the Health Career Collaborative Program Initiation Grant sponsored by Aetna’s Division of Racial and Ethnic Equality.
For the 2021-2022 school year, the HCC medical student co-directors are Mai Nguyen and Adam Cardone who together with 14 medical student mentors, serve 60 sophomore and junior high school students.
HCC Chicago In Action
