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Dr. John R. Lumpkin is an Illinois health sector administrator. He is the son of Frank Lumpkin and Bea Lumpkin.

Lumpkin and his wife Mary S. Blanks, M.D., a health care mediator, reside in the Princeton area[1].

Senior Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey · April 2003 to present Director of the Health Care Group including issues of Covering the Uninsured, Equitable Quality Improvement and Human Capital

He was Illinois Department of Public Health, Director · Springfield, Illinois · October 1985 to March 2003.[2]

Affiliations and achievements

John Lumpkin is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been chairman of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and served on the Council on Maternal, Infant and Fetal Nutrition, the Advisory Committee to the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Medicine's Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century. He has served on the boards of directors for the Public Health Foundation and National Quality Forum, as president of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Emergency Medicine, and as speaker and board of director’s member of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He has received the Arthur McCormack Excellence and Dedication in Public Health Award from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Jonas Salk Health Leadership Award and the Leadership in Public Health Award from the Illinois Public Health Association. Lumpkin also has been the recipient of the Bill B. Smiley Award, Alan Donaldson Award, African American History Maker, and Public Health Worker of the Year of the Illinois Public Health Association. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.[3]

Education

Lumpkin earned his M.D. and B.M.S. degrees from Northwestern University Medical School and his M.P.H. 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 and has taught at Princeton University[4].

Illinois Communist Party

In 1972 John Lumpkin was Communist Party USA candidate for University of Illinois Trustee.[5]

In 1976 John Lumpkin was nominated as a candidate for the Illinois Communist Party USA as an elector for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates of the Communist Party USA, Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner.[6]

Running for Alderman

In 1979, John R. Lumpkin ran for Alderman in Chicago's 7th Ward. Leading members of the "Committee to elect John R. Lumpkin" included Harold Washington, Carol Moseley Braun, Timuel Black, Quentin Young and Communist Party USA members Roberta Wood, Scott Marshall, Joe Kransdorf and Frank Lumpkin.

College Professors for Washington

In 1982 John Lumpkin was one of more than 100 Chicago academics, signing an open letter to the voters of Chicago endorsing the mayoral candidacy of Harold Washington.[7]

Career

John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., is the senior vice president and the director of the Health Care Group. He is responsible for the overall planning, budgeting, staffing, management and evaluation of all program and administrative activities for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Care Group. Before joining the Foundation in April 2003, Lumpkin served as director of the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years. 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. After earning his M.P.H. in 1985, he began caring for the more than 12 million people of Illinois as the first African- American director of a 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.[8] Link title

Google Health Advisory Council

John R. Lumpkin serves on the Google Health Advisory Council[9].

We often seek expertise from outside the company, and health is no exception. To help us think about the ways we can contribute to the healthcare industry, we formed the Google Health Advisory Council. The Google Health Advisory Council is made up of healthcare experts from provider organizations, consumer and disease-based groups, physician organizations, research institutions, policy foundations, and other fields.
The mission of the Google Health Advisory Council is to help us better understand the problems consumers and providers face every day and to offer us feedback on product ideas and development.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rwjf.org/about/staffbio.jsp?id=935
  2. ↑ John Lumpkin FB page, accessed Dec.25,2012
  3. ↑ http://www.rwjf.org/about/staffbio.jsp?id=935
  4. ↑ http://www.rwjf.org/about/staffbio.jsp?id=935
  5. ↑ Daily World, November 2, 1972, page 2
  6. ↑ 1976 Communist Party Electoral Petition.
  7. ↑ Committee to Elect Harold Washington Camp Leaflet, 1982
  8. ↑ http://www.rwjf.org/about/staffbio.jsp?id=935
  9. ↑ http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/health/about/ghac.html
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