Welcome! • ¡Bienvenido!
Your presence and support today helps us continue our founding members’ legacy of providing quality cost effective health care to the Hispanic community, the uninsured, and the underinsured.
Gala Sponsors
Oro ($15000)
- Bienstar Pharmacy
- CityBlue
- Wintrust
Bronze ($5000)
- Citrin Cooperman
- HAS Community Counseling & Treatment
- Medical Home Network
- UI Health
- Abacus Healthcare
- Visualutions
- NuvemRx
- Moe’s Cantina
- The Culver/Tynus/Mirshed Family
- Benito and Esther Corpuz
Evening Program
- Opening
- 7pm
Welcome
Teresa Fraga, President, Alivio Board of Directors
Mistress of Ceremonies
Tanja Babich, News Anchor, ABC 7
Invocation
Father Brendan Curran of The Resurrection Project
- Dinner
- 7:15pm
- Honorees
- 8pm
Presented by Esther Corpuz, Alivio CEO
Lifetime Achievement Award
•• Presented to ••
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin
Carmen Velásquez Warrior Award
•• Presented to ••
Congressman Jesús “Chuy” Garcia
Una Presencia Activa Award
•• Presented to ••
Antonio R. Guillen
SVP— Market President/Business Development, Wintrust Bank, Pilsen, Little Village, & Logan Square
Patient Advocate Champion Award
•• Presented to ••
Akil Ghoghawala, RPh, PharmD
Closing Remarks
Esther Corpuz, Alivio CEO
- Open Bar
- 9–10pm
¡Gala fin!
Alivio Medical Center
Board of Directors
- Teresa Fraga
- President
- Peter Martinez
- 1st VP
- Elizabeth Aquino, RN, PhD
- 2nd VP
- Scott Cruz, Esq.
- Secretary
- Antonio Guillen
- Treasurer
Officers
- Jill Seidman, MPH*
- Carmen Velásquez, Founder
- Santiago Garcia
- Alejandra Perez Tamayo, MD*
*Patient board member