Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has two weeks to name directors to a new, independent board to oversee the county’s vast Bureau of Health Services, which critics contend is a patronage-laden fiefdom controlled by 8th Ward Democrats….....Here’s the list:

*Dr. David Ansell, vice president and chief medical officer at Rush University Medical Center

*Fernando Grillo, former secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation

*Warren Batts, retired Premark International CEO

*Dr. Carl Bell, president and CEO of Community Mental Health Council & Foundation Inc.

*Norman Bobins, chairman emeritus of LaSalle Bank Corp.

*Daniel Cantrell, who is on the staff of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.)

*David Carvalho, deputy director of the Illinois Dept. of Public Health

*Margaret Davis, executive director of the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois

*Dr. Joseph Flaherty, dean of the College of Medicine at University of Illinois-Chicago

*Quin Golden, former chief of staff of the Illinois Dept. of Public Health

*Benn Greenspan of the School of Public Health at UIC

*Barbara Hillman, attorney

*Lester Knight, a founding partner at RoundTable Healthcare Partners

*Dr. Carol Lopez, president of the Chicago Institute of Medicine

*Sister Sheila Lyne, president and CEO of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center

*Dr. Luis Munoz, president of WorkCare Medical Center

*Heather O’Donnell, health policy director at Center for Tax and Budget Accountability

*Jorge Ramirez, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Federation of Labor

*James Stukel, former president of University of Illinois

*Andrea Zopp, executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Exelon Corp.

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