In the pictures below Dr. John Lumpkin is being presented with the EMS Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Lumpkin is seen photoed here with Mike Hansen, Fire Chief of Lincolnwood and current chair of the Illinois EMS Advisory Council.
John Lumpkin, MD, MPH is being recognized for over 30 years of extraordinary dedication and exceptional commitment to Emergency Medical Services. Dr. Lumpkin has been instrumental in impacting the survival rates and quality of life of people requiring emergency medical care. His extraordinary accomplishments shall stand as testament to his dedication, perseverance, and life-long service to his peers, EMS professionals and fellow human beings.
Dr. Lumpkin is pictured here alongside Leslee Stein, Former EMS Division Chief at IDPH
Information below from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
John Lumpkin, MD, MPH, is the senior vice president and director of targeted teams. He is responsible for the overall planning, budgeting, staffing, management, and evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s efforts aimed at ensuring that all children grow up at a healthy weight, ensuring that all Americans have access to stable and affordable health care coverage, advancing change leadership, and creating a health care system that provides the best possible care at a reasonable cost.
Before joining the Foundation in April 2003, Lumpkin served as the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years from 1991-2003. In doing so, this made Dr. Lumpkin the first African-American to hold this position at the agency. During his more than 17 years with the department, he served as acting director and prior to that as associate director.
Lumpkin has participated directly in the health and health care system, first practicing emergency medicine and teaching medical students and residents at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He is the past chairman of the board of directors of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the major teaching hospital of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. After earning his MPH in 1985, he began caring for the more than 12 million people of Illinois as the first African-American director of the state public health agency with more than 1,300 employees in seven regional offices, three laboratories, and locations in Springfield and Chicago. He led improvements to programs dealing with women’s and men’s health, information and technology, emergency and bioterrorism preparedness, infectious disease prevention and control, immunization, local health department coverage, and the state’s laboratory services.
Lumpkin earned his MD and BMS degrees from Northwestern University Medical School and his MPH from the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He was the first African-American trained in emergency medicine in the country after completing his residency at the University of Chicago. He has served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois at Chicago.
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