Daniel Ivankovich
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| Born |
November 23, 1963 Zagreb, Croatia |
| Residence | Glenview, Illinois |
| Other names | Chicago Slim Reverend Doctor D Dr. Dan |
| Education |
Glenbrook South High School Northwestern University Honors Program in Medical Education Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
| Occupation | Orthopedic surgeon Blues musician |
| Organization | OnePatient Global Health Initiative |
| Notable work | Operation Spinal Cord Rescue Haiti Earthquake Relief |
| Spouse(s) | Karla Ivankovich |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | onepatient |
Daniel Anthony Ivankovich, MD (born November 23, 1963) is an American orthopedic surgeon, humanitarian, media personality and blues musician with the Chicago Blues All-Stars. He is known for his advocacy on behalf of the underserved in Chicago's inner city as leader of the Bone Squad, a group of medical professionals who treat the city's uninsured and underinsured. He is the medical director and co-founder of OnePatient Global Health Initiative, a nonprofit foundation based in Chicago with a mission “to treat patients... who have musculoskeletal health disorders, regardless of their ability to pay.”
Ivankovich was born in Zagreb, Croatia, to immigrant physician parents. His family defected from the former Yugoslavia and moved to Chicago in 1968, settling in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side before moving to the Chicago North Shore suburb Glenview in 1973.
Ivankovich’s father, Anthony D. Ivankovich, MD, is an anesthesiologist, former military doctor, and chairman emeritus of the Department of Anesthesia at Rush University. His mother, Olga Ivankovich, MD, is a primary care doctor and the clinical director of the Rush University Pain Center.
As a high school senior in 1981, Ivankovich was an All-State and All-American center for the Glenbrook South High School basketball team. During his senior year, he was invited to be a member of the Chicago Sun-Times all-area travel team. He received offers of athletic scholarships from 500 colleges, choosing to attend Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In the summer of 1981, Ivankovich represented Chicago in the Boston Shootout, a streetball invitational held at Boston University's Walter Brown Arena. Midway through the tournament, he was involved in an on-court collision and ruptured the ACL in his right knee. He retired from basketball after his freshman year at Northwestern due to the injury. He had 13 surgeries to repair the knee, and later described his rehabilitation as a "very dark time", as he had been determined to make it to the NBA. During his recovery, he learned to play blues guitar, and vowed to do something positive for other people.
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