John R. Lumpkin, M.D.,
M.P.H.Senior Vice President and Director, Health Care
Group
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
 John
Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., is the senior vice president and the director
of the Health Care Group for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
He is responsible for the overall planning, budgeting, staffing,
management and evaluation of all program and administrative activities
of the 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
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.
Lumpkin is a member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been
chairman since 1996 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 Forum for Health Care
Quality, as president of the Illinois College of Emergency
Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Emergency
Medicine, and as speaker and board of directors member of
the American College of Emergency Physicians. He has
received the Arthur MacCormack 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.
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 trained in emergency medicine at the
University of Chicago. He has served on the faculty of the
University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University
of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at Princeton
University.
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