Alaa Alsakaty MD

Practice Philosophy

“To care for patients, you must care about them, and the best care you can provide to your patients is by listening carefully to their words. This helps me, as a rheumatologist, to reach the most accurate diagnosis and to provide the best possible treatment and management for different rheumatic diseases. 

By listening, I can address my patients’ concerns, answer their questions, reassure their fears, comfort their pain so I can reach my goal of helping them live the highest quality of life. 

Complementary medicine has been a field of interest for me, with a special focus on diet and its effect on human gut microbiota and its role in autoimmune/rheumatic diseases.“

Biography

Dr. Alsakaty was born and raised in Damascus, Syria and received a medical degree from the University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine.  

Dr. Alsakaty moved to the United States and completed her internal medicine residency at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science at North Chicago and then pursued a rheumatology fellowship at the University of Illinois Chicago where she was awarded the best teaching fellow award for two years in a row. 

Dr. Alsakaty worked as an internal medicine hospitalist at Advocate Christ Medical Center in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. 

Dr. Alsakaty is a member of American College of Rheumatology.