CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said tennis, yoga, prayer, and family dinners grounded her through the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ngozi Ezike, MD, was tapped as the new president and CEO of Sinai Chicago, the city’s largest private safety-net health system. Dr. Ezike will begin her new role June 13, becoming the first ...

Ezike, who had spent the past two years helping Illinois navigate the COVID-19 pandemic before stepping down from the Illinois Department of Public Health last month, will begin her new post on ...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who helped guide the state’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak, will leave her post as Illinois’ top public health official days after the second anniversary of a pandemic ...

For the last two years, Dr. Ngozi Ezike stood her ground, unrelenting in relaying — sometimes in tears — how crucial it was to mask up, stay indoors and get vaccinated.

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the public face of Gov. JB Pritzker’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been fined $150,000 for violating a state revolving-door ethics law when she left her job as ...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, ex-public health chief behind Illinois' COVID-19 response, fined $150K for ethics violation Ezike, a regular face on Illinois TV screens in the worst days of the pandemic ...

Ngozi Ezike, MD, CEO of Sinai Chicago and former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, invited NBC Chicago to film her first screening colonoscopy, the news outlet reported March 4. Dr ...

Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike will resign on March 14 after three years of leading the agency and two years navigating a deadly pandemic that has claimed the lives ...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike is the president and CEO of Sinai Chicago. Her many years of experience in the medical field serving in various leadership positions has provided Dr. Ezike a perspective that is ...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike led Illinois health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now she's CEO of a top state medical contractor. Did her quick switch violate the state Ethics Act?