Joliet Area Community Hospice names new medical director

Joliet Area Community Hospice names new medical director

Dr. Muhamad Krad has been named as the new medical director at Joliet Area Community Hospice (JACH) effective July1.

Krad succeeded Dr. J.D. Wright who retired at the end of June. Krad, specializing in internal medicine at Amita Health serving Adventist Hospitals in LaGrange and Hinsdale, has also worked part time at JACH for the past year.

He graduated with honors from Loyola University Chicago, followed by a master's at Georgetown University and subsequently Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in 2008. Krad completed residency at the University of Chicago in 2011 and practiced both hospital and hospice medicine at Palos Health through 2016.

For more information about JACH, call 815-740-4104 or visit www.joliethospice.org.