Ameera Haamid, MD

Equity Advisor

Dr. Ameera Haamid is an emergency medicine physician at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital at Cook County Health. She also serves as assistant EMS medical director of the Chicago West EMS system and is a  member of the Cook County Health Core Faculty. She also serves as an assistant professor of emergency  medicine at Rush University and adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago EMS Fellowship  program.  

Along with her duties in one of the nation’s busiest emergency departments, Dr. Haamid has been active  in developing education and initiatives as it relates to structural racism, social justice, and health  inequities. 

Dr. Haamid is a member of the advisory board and research council for the American Foundation for  Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM). As a member, she has been vocal about our nation’s gun  violence epidemic and is the co-writer of two grants built to serve underrepresented populations by  decreasing gun violence. 

Dr. Haamid earned her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and her  bachelor’s of science from Jackson State University. She completed her EMS fellowship at Denver  Health Medical Center and her emergency medicine residency at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital at Cook  County Health.