Dr. Lisa Daniel-Olimene ’89, P’23, ’25, ’29 addressed the Class of 2026 and the Morgan Park Academy community as the commencement speaker at our 153rd graduation exercises on June 6, 2026.
Daniel-Olimene is a physician who currently works as a hospitalist at Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana, and at Advocate Trinity Hospital, where she has worked for 18 years. Prior to that she was a physician at Chicago Family Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the underprivileged in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood. She had been a provider for the Pullman community for more than 18 years. For two years prior to that, she served in Northwest Indiana.
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Daniel-Olimene earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Stanford University in 1994, and obtained her medical degree from the University of Illinois in 1999. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois in 2004. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and has membership in the American Medical Association.
Daniel-Olimene graduated from MPA in 1989, having attended the school from kindergarten through 12th grade. She and her husband, Michael, live in Olympia Fields; their eldest children are MPA graduates, and they currently have one child at the school.
A long-serving member of Morgan Park Academy’s Board of Trustees, she also has received the Thomas Malcolm Award for her volunteer service to the Academy and has been inducted into both the MPA Hall of Fame and our Athletics Walk of Fame.
