Stacy Tessler Lindau is a tenured professor and practicing physician at the University of Chicago. Her work and interdisciplinary lab focus on engineering solutions to injustice with the patients and communities they serve. She is also the founder and chief innovation officer of NowPow, LLC, a mission-driven IT company, and president of MAPSCorps, a community asset mapping organization. Catalyzed by a 2012-2015 Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, these organizations close the information gap about vital community resources while creating meaningful jobs, especially for youth. A practicing gynecologist, Stacy leads the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, which seeks to preserve sexual function in women affected by cancer. She is director of WomanLab, a virtual platform to promote preservation and recovery of female sexual function after cancer and across the life span and she was founding chair of the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer. Stacy was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Chicago (’02) and served the program’s National Advisory Committee. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
University of Chicago Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program
Fellow
2002
University of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
Chicago, IL
MAPP - Irving B. Harris Fellowship
2002
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Chief Administrative Resident - Obstetrics and Gynecology
2000
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Resident - Obstetrics and Gynecology
1999
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI
M.D. with Highest Honors - Medicine
1996
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA
Bryn Mawr, PA - Premedical Study
1992
University of Michigan Honors College
Ann Arbor, MI
B.A. - Political Science and Secondary Education
1990
The Grief Navigation Trial: A multi-site pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of two interventions to support parents after their child's unexpected or traumatic death.
The Grief Navigation Trial: A multi-site pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of two interventions to support parents after their child's unexpected or traumatic death. Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 May 26; 107962.
PMID: 40436312
Community intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease in Chicago (CIRCL-Chicago): protocol for a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study using a parallel cluster-randomized trial design.
Community intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease in Chicago (CIRCL-Chicago): protocol for a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study using a parallel cluster-randomized trial design. Implement Sci. 2025 May 05; 20(1):19.
PMID: 40325453
Low-Intensity Social Care and Child Acute Health Care Utilization: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Low-Intensity Social Care and Child Acute Health Care Utilization: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Apr 28.
PMID: 40293738
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14543.
PMID: 40189345
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14485.
PMID: 40189302
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14546.
PMID: 40189318
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14495.
PMID: 40189306
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14589.
PMID: 40189349
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14590.
PMID: 40189353
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care.
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care. Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr; 60 Suppl 1:e14529.
PMID: 40189316
Top 10 (of~1100) for NowPow
Accenture Global HealthTech Challenge
2019
Recipient on behalf of NowPow, Erie Family Health Center Health Innovation Award
Erie Family Health Center
2018
Health and Wellness Award
Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
2018
Senior Faculty Scholar
Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, University of Chicago
2018
Best Tech StartUp in Chicago for NowPow
Timmy Awards
2018
Recipient on behalf of NowPow,Chicago Innovation Up-and-Comer Award, Technology
Chicago Innovation
2017
Fellow
Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and Member, Aspen Global Leadership Network
2016 - 2018
Inspirations in Medicine: The Physician/Patient Perspective Award
American Medical Association
2014
Vision and Impact Award
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, Midwest Region
2013
Fellow
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program
2011 - 2012
Best Poster Award in Biology. Sex Hormones and Female Sexual Function in Later Life
Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health
2009
Thomas W. McElin Lectureship
Department of Ob/Gyn, Evanston Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem
2007
Outstanding Excellence in Geriatric Research-All Categories
American Geriatrics Society
2007
New Investigator Award
American Geriatrics Society
2003
Chicago Lying-In Pin for Outstanding Medical Student Teaching
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
2003
Ralph Reis Research Award
Department of Ob/Gyn, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2000
Department of Ob/Gyn Chairman’s Award
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2000
Dr. Susan Perlman Award
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
2000
Outstanding Resident Teacher Award
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2000
Parke Davis Scholarship
Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics
1998
Jack and Edna Saphier Prize
Alpert Medical School at Brown University
1996
Glaxo-Wellcome Achievement Award
American Medical Association
1996
Leah J. Dickstein MD Student Creativity and Leadership Award
Association of Women Psychiatrists
1996
Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation
Women in Medicine
1996
John A. Hartford Foundation Student Fellowship
Department of Geriatrics, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
1993