Dr. Tariq Butt is a Board Certified Family Physician with teaching appointments at the University of Illinois’ Medical College, Rush University Medical School, and the Faculty with Mt. Sinai Family Practice Residency Program affiliated with the Chicago Medical School. He is the Deputy Medical Officer of Access Community Health Network and as part of his medical practice, he provides a range of medical services to people from the West Side of Chicago, regardless of their ability to pay.
He participates in the Chicago Public Schools' immunization programs, and he presently serves as Member of the Board of Directors for the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB), the National School Boards Association (NSBA) - Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) Steering Committee, the CUBE Racial Isolation Task Force, and the CUBE Nomination Committee. Dr. Butt also serves as a member of the Otho S.A. Sprague Foundation, is an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee member of the Universtiy of Chicago Children's Hospital Mobile Care Van, and an Advisory Board member of the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC).
Dr. Butt served as Chairman of Mayor Daley's Asian-American Advisory Council before he was appointed to serve on the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees. Additionally, he served on the Asian Advisory Council to the Former State Treasurer, the Advisory Committee to Chicago Medical Society's President on International Medical Graduate Relations, as well as the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed him Member of the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees on July 1, 1995 and reappointed him to four-year terms in 1999, 2003 and 2007 to the renamed School Board, Chicago Board of Education.
Dr. Butt was one of the founding members of the Asian-American Institute and worked closely with former Cook County Board President Richard Phelan and former President John Stroger to formulate the unprecedented Asian-American Advisory Committee for Cook County and Cook County Workforce Investment Board. He also serves on the Governor and Secretary of the State of Illinois’ Asian-American Advisory Councils. In addition, he is a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS), a Senior Advisory Board Member of School Based Pediatric Asthma Research (SPARC) in Chicago with the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and serves on the Public Health Committee of Chicago Medical Society.
Dr. Butt has received many prestigious awards including: The Loretta Lacey Advocacy (10/03), for his work in child advocacy; The Horatio Alger Award (5/02); was inducted into the Asian American Hall of Fame (5/02); The American Heart Saver (2002); The American Heart Association (2002); The Chicago's 1997 Big Hearts for Young Heroes; and The 1995 Pan-Asian American Award. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three young children.