Roberta Luskin-Hawk has served as chief executive, St. Joseph Health, Humboldt County, since 2018, leading St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, a 139-bed regional medical center, and Redwood Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital. Previously, she served as regional president/CEO for Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago, and Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill. Dr. Luskin-Hawk’s administrative career follows her clinical career as an infectious disease specialist, educator, clinical researcher and physician leader. She co-founded one of Chicago’s first inpatient HIV units at Saint Joseph in 1987, which served thousands of patients from Chicago and its suburbs. In 1989, Dr. Luskin-Hawk successfully sought National Institutes of Health funding and founded AIDS Research Alliance, Chicago, an independent, not-for-profit clinical research consortium, where she served as principal investigator for 15 years. Her work has been recognized by the Catholic Health Association, from which she received a Mid-Career Award, and by Becker’s Hospital Review, which named her one of “52 Women Hospital and Healthcare Leaders” who “demonstrate outstanding leadership in the hospital and healthcare industry” and one of 300 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know. Dr. Luskin-Hawk earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Doctor of Medicine degree with honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency, where she served as chief resident, at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, and she completed her infectious disease fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center.