Lee Sacks

Over the course of his distinguished career, Dr. Lee Sacks achieved national recognition for his impact on patient safety, health outcomes, and clinical integration and was recognized by Modern Health Care in 2018 as one of the top 50 physician executives. He is the retired Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Advocate Health Care, the largest health system in Illinois. Dr. Sacks served on the Advocate Health Care executive leadership team since its founding in 1995, and has been affiliated with Advocate and its predecessors, on medical staff and in other roles, for the past 41 years. At Advocate, he was responsible for health outcomes, patient safety, information systems, managed care contracting, PHO operations, research, medical education, risk management and insurance.

Dr. Sacks served as Advocate’s Chief Medical Officer for over 20 years and was the founding CEO of Advocate Health Partners, a clinically integrated network with over 5,000 physicians, coordinating care for approximately 1 million attributable lives in commercial, Medicare and Medicaid populations. He currently serves as faculty for leadership development of physician executives with the Health Management Academy.

Dr. Sacks is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine, Chicago. Prior to the merger that created Advocate, Dr. Sacks served in a variety of executive roles at Lutheran General Health System and practiced family medicine in suburban Chicago.

Dr. Sacks earned his BS at the University of Pennsylvania and MD from the University of Illinois, College of Medicine.