Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP, is Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Medicine-Geriatrics at the University of Chicago. She is a practicing gynecologist and world-known expert in preservation and recovery of female sexual function in the context of cancer and other complex illnesses and an NIH-funded investigator with expertise in the health of marginalized populations, especially women. She directs the CommunityRx program of research, focused on how and why connecting people and their caregivers to community-based resources drives health and wellbeing across the life course. She is also founding director of Feed1st, a fully self-serve, no barriers, medical center-based system to mitigate food insecurity triggered or exacerbated by living with or caring for people with cancer and other illnesses. To sustain the CommunityRx innovation, originally funded with a Health Care Innovation Award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Dr. Lindau founded NowPow, LLC and MAPSCorps, 501c3. These entities, headquartered on Chicago’s South Side, have employed hundreds of people, including more than 2300 youth across the U.S. since 2009. Dr. Lindau studied political science and education at the University of Michigan, medicine at Brown University and public policy at the University of Chicago Harris School. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow.