Dr. Klarquist's Bio  Tom Klarquist, M.D. Professional Affiliations: American Medical Association Amercian College of Physicians American Association of HIV Medicine International Association of Physician in AIDS Care Gay Lesbian Medical Association Hospital Affiliations: St. Joseph Hosptial 2900 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago Illinois Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center 836 West Wellington Chicago Ilinois Insurances Accepted: Most major insurances are accepted including Public Aid and Medicare. Dr. Klarquist is happy to announce that he is now accepting Beech Street and First Health/Coventry insurance plans. The only major plan not currently accepted by Dr. Klarquist is Blue Advantage HMO. If you have this plan and need recommendations for a PCP, please feel free to contact Dr. Klarquist for names. | Dr. Klarquist received his undergraduate degree
from Western Michigan University graduating
magna cum laude with a BS in Biology.
He received his MD from Michigan State
University College of Human Medicine. He was
a member of the College's Upper Peninsula Medical
Education Program. This program, open to only 5
percent of each class, emphasized patient interaction
skills and included expanded training in interviewing
and examining skills.
He did his internship in Internal Medicine at the
University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky)
where he was named one of the "Outstanding Interns
of 1987-88". He completed his residency at Michigan
State University at the Kalamazoo campus comprised
of Borgess and Bronson Hospitals.
Dr. Klarquist's first position post residency in
1990 was with FHP in Los Angeles California.
During his tenure with FHP (second largest HMO in
California at that time), Dr. Klarquist served as the
region's Chairman of Medicine over 75 primary care
and speciality physicians. He also served as a
primary care physician at the Long Beach Senior
Center and in 1992, he founded one of the first
in-patient specialty groups in the nation.
In 1996, he took a position as Medical Director of
the Humana Health Plan in Tampa Florida. In the
ensuing three years, Dr. Klarquist helped develop
health improvement programs for Congestive Heart
Failure, Diabetes, and Coronary Heart Disease. He
also served as chairman of the Peer Review,
Credentials, and Utilization Review committees.
Dr. Klarquist returned to full time clinical medicine in
1999 on his move to Chicago. Joining IPC--The
Hospitalist Company, he worked as an inpatient
specialist at St. Joseph Hospital and Advocate Illinois
Masonic Medical Center. Given his experience in the
field, Dr. Klarquist also travelled to other IPC sites
(Tucson, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, and St. Louis) to
train other hospitalists.
2001 offered Dr. Klarquist a golden opportunity
to achieve his career dream of setting up his
own private practice. The generosity of
chiropractor Dr. Sean Comerford allowed him to join
the office of Chicagoland Comprehensive Care in
Chicago's Loop. In 2004, due to the growth of the
practice, he joined Drs. Stotts and Beverlin at Millennium Wellness Group at a new office though remaining at the same intersection of Wabash and Washington.
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