Our History

First established in 2020, ILCC was created to bring large-scale QI to cancer care by supporting hospitals to effectively use hospital-level data ​and leveraging the experience and lessons learned from other hospitals related ​to same challenge​.

Our network of teams at hospitals across Illinois participate in collaborative quality improvement projects to improve cancer care for all patients across the state. These include large-scale data collection projects which involve utilizing existing site-level cancer registry data. Additionally, member hospitals can abstract project-specific data that cannot be automated to an established ILCC electronic case report form database.

The Director of ILCC, Dr. Nisha Mohindra, is a board-certified medical oncologist at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Her research interests focus on the clinical investigation of novel agents or combination therapies for non-small cell and small cell lung cancer. She remains passionate about developing quality of life and economic research as it relates to immunotherapy and lung cancer through our work at ILCC.

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Meet the Team

Nisha Mohindra, MD ILCC Director	David Odell, MD, MMSc ILCC Surgical Cancer Lead	Ryan Jacobs, MD, MS Research Fellow
Raheem Bell, MD, MS Research Fellow	Salva Najib Balbale, PhD ILCC Health Services Researcher	Julie Johnson, PhD ILCC Health Services Researcher
Kristina Diaz, MSN, RN Project Manager	Zequn Sun, PhD Statistical Analyst	Alex Lui Statistical Analyst
Michael Gurley Cancer Informatics	Valentina Valasco, MD/MPH Candidate ILCC Contributor	Isabel Gippo, MPH, MD Candidate ILCC Contributor