CHW Manager
GLORIA SEALS
Professional Summary
| Gloria Seals joined SUHI in 2000 as SUHI’s first community health worker (CHW), specializing in asthma education and management. Throughout the years and ongoing grant-funded, CHW-led interventions, she has educated and supported children, their caregivers, and adults on proper asthma management. Gloria was promoted multiple times throughout her tenure and in 2022 became SUHI’s CHW Manager. She currently works on the Asthma Home Visiting Collaborative funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health and the CHW Assistance Program. Gloria oversees SUHI’s CHW interventions and team, mentoring staff, including CHW supervisors, and advises and guides active and future projects.
Gloria has over 40 years’ experience in the healthcare field having worked at many organizations throughout Chicagoland including John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and Roseland Community Hospital. |
Education
- Margellos-Anast H, Whitman S and Seals G. Report of the Findings and Recommendations of Sinai’s Pediatric Asthma Intervention-2: Final Report. Chicago, IL, 2007.
- Karnick P, Margellos-Anast H, Seals G, Whitman S, Aljadeff G, Johnson D. The Pediatric Asthma Intervention: A Comprehensive Cost-Effective Approach to Asthma Management in a Disadvantaged Inner-city Community. Journal of Asthma 2007; 44:39-44.
- Johnson D, Karnick P, Seals G, et al. Report on the Findings and Recommendations of the Pediatric Asthma Intervention. December 1, 1999-June 30, 2002. Chicago, Illinois: Mount Sinai Hospital and La Rabida Children’s Hospital and Research Center, 2002.
