About me
Dr. Rucker-Whitaker is physician executive with CINQCARE, a health and care company focused on caring for people where they live. She is an active entrepreneur, advisor, and board member. She co-founded a company focused on patient engagement for the hard to reach. She is an advisor to Health2047, Inc. a venture studio, and Health 2047 Capital Partners, a venture fund, both wholly owned subsidiaries of the American Medical Association. She serves as an Independent Board member of Equality Health, a Senior Clinical Advisor to BexaHealth, an innovative technology focused on expanding access to breast cancer screening, and an advisor to Nest Health, a start up focused on managing maternal morbidity and mortality in African American populations.
Dr. Rucker-Whitaker is a member of The Chicago Network, The Economic Club of Chicago, Women’s Business Leaders of the US, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, She is former President and Chair of Board of Governors of the Institute of Medicine Chicago and former Chair of the Illinois State Medicaid Advisory Committee. She sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Emory College of Emory University. She is a graduate of Emory University, Washington University School of Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She did her internship in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and residency in primary care internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She is a frequent medical contributor for WVONAM-1690 radio.
She resides in Chicago with her husband and doodle. She has 2 adult children.