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STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE A right, not a privilege


Kisti Catalano (MD ’97) provides health care in an underserved Chicago area.


Roseland, a Far South Side community that is hard hit by poverty and violence. She practices internal medicine and pediatrics


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at a clinic run by Chicago Family Health Centers, which operates six facilities in underserved areas of the city. “Most of the patients we see have no insurance, and many of them have been victims of crimes,” Catalano says.


hicago residents who live in under- served neighborhoods often find that good health care is hard to come by. But Dr. Kisti Catalano (MD ‘97) is working to change that in


Residents of Chicago’s poorest areas don’t


have many options when it comes to health care. Some physicians hesitate to work in neigh- borhoods where the majority of patients are uninsured, because Medicaid reimbursements are much lower, according to Catalano. In addition, she says, people who don’t have insurance tend to avoid visiting a doctor because of the cost. Catalano, who previously worked for the Infant


Welfare Society of Chicago, says she always want- ed to work with medically underserved popula- tions. “We go into medicine to help others. And there’s an additional sense of accomplishment


Kisti Catalano (MD ‘97) shares a smile with a young patient at a clinic in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood.


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