Padmanabhan “Dan” Mukundan, MD
Medical Director
Dr. Mukundan is a native of Madras, India, where he attended medical school. He has lived in Chicago since 1972 and completed his residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Mukundan has served as Medical Director of Access Community Health Network since 1993, where he is directly responsible for all health care delivery including overseeing over 200 medical providers at the organization’s 50 health centers throughout Chicago and its suburbs. He is Board certified in both Family Medicine and Pediatrics.
Dr. Mukundan pioneered an innovative physician compensation system that ties compensation to quality. He also served as Principal Investigator on several innovative health initiatives including a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Partners in Quality Education project that studied approaches for teaching chronic disease management in underserved communities; a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded effort studying a faith based approach to reducing racial and ethnic disparities in breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment in minority communities; and a Center for Substance Abuse Treatment project studying the effects of an integrated screening and case management approach to linking substance abusing patients in primary care settings to drug and alcohol treatment programs.
Dr. Mukundan holds appointments as the Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (which he founded in 1996) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago and as Assistant Clinical Professor at the Finch University School of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, Illinois Medical Society, American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.