<< BackProfile of Daniel O'Brien '02
As
the house staff president of the OSF Saint Francis Residency Program
and chief resident of the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Combined
Residency Program at the hospital, Dr. Daniel O’Brien represents each
of the 10 residency programs at the University of Illinois College of
Medicine at Peoria. He interfaces with the OSF administration and the
dean of graduate medical education at the University of Illinois, and
is a representative for the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program,
assisting in residency coordination and physician recruitment, and
spends a considerable amount of time caring for his patients.
Excelling
both academically and in extracurricular activities during medical
school, O’Brien was chosen by his peers to speak at their commencement
ceremony in 2006. He received the Gold Humanitarian Award, as well as
the Daniel DeSilva Memorial Award for community service.
In 2006,
O’Brien was accepted for the University of Illinois College of
Medicine’s Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Combined Residency Program.
He was elected by his peers to serve as the house staff vice president
in 2008 and president in 2009. In this capacity, he represents the
interests of more than 200 residents across all medical disciplines at
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.
In 2009, Dr. O’Brien was also
named chief resident of the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency
Program, taking on additional duties on top of an already heavy case
load. An advocate for this program, O’Brien has led recruitment efforts
for the past two years.
Not only does O’Brien spend considerable
amounts of time working with patients and fellow residents at the
hospital, he also finds time to actively volunteer in the community. He
is currently involved with the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce, the
Young Professionals Organization of Greater Peoria and Junior
Achievement of Central Illinois. This past summer, O’Brien volunteered
to serve at a diabetes camp for kids in central Illinois for an entire
week, monitoring a cabin of boys afflicted with juvenile diabetes. He
plans to join a group of physicians traveling to Haiti in February 2010
to provide free medical care to impoverished families. iBi
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