Sodabeh Etminan

Senior Director of Oral Health, University of Illinois Mile Square Health Center

Chicago, Illinois

Sodabeh “Sue” Etminan is the senior director of oral health at the Mile Square Health Center in Chicago, where she focuses on increasing access to oral health care for vulnerable populations. Under her leadership, clinic accessibility has increased, and special programs for children as well as patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities and cancer have been implemented. She also launched a food pantry for food-insecure patients and a certification program for dental assistants that recruits students from low-income communities, enabling a more diverse health care workforce for better health outcomes. Originally from Iran, Sue moved to the United States as a child.