Ms. Habercoss is vice president and chief information security and privacy officer at UChicago Medicine. Ms. Habercoss has enterprise responsibility for cybersecurity and privacy across the University of Chicago Medical Center, Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill., UChicago Medicine Crown Point (Ind.) and the health system’s biological sciences research division. Her portfolio includes security operations and engineering, identity and access management, security architecture, privacy operations, disaster recovery and cybersecurity resilience. Under her leadership, incident report capture increased more than 300% in three years, the audit program expanded more than 200% and training reach grew more than 500%, gains achieved through five audit and monitoring tools using predictive data analytics. Ms. Habercoss chairs the executive cyber risk committee and the privacy and security steering committee, and co-chairs the AI steering committee. She holds nine professional certifications and co-authored the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s February 2024 publication on coordinated privacy and security partnerships. Ms. Habercoss received the “A100 Award” from CISOs Connect, naming her one of the top 100 accelerated CISOs nationally in 2025.
