John Lumpkin, MD, FACME, FACEP, FAAN

Dr. John R. Lumpkin was appointed director of the Illinois Department of Public Health in January 1991, after serving as acting director since September 1990. He is the first African-American to hold this position at the agency. For the previous five years, Dr. Lumpkin had been associate director of the Department's Office of Health Care Regulation. Before joining the state health department, Dr. Lumpkin served as an emergency physician at several Chicago hospitals, including St. Mary's Nazareth, South Chicago Community and the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. Lumpkin received his medical degree in 1974 from Northwestern University Medical School. He trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago and earned his master's degree in public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health. Dr. Lumpkin is active in national policy development on public health information systems and performance measurement and teaches these subjects at the graduate level at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health. He has also been active in injury prevention and has provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health of the Arab Republic of Egypt on behalf of the U.S. Public Health Service. He has served on a number of national advisory committees and currently serves as Chair of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), Chair of the NCVHS Workgroup on National Health Information; past member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee to the Director; the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Public Health Performance Measures, Public Health Roundtable and Performance Partnership Grants Panel. Active in numerous professional organizations, Dr. Lumpkin is a member of the National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting (i.e., National Quality Forum), past president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Accountability, a former Commissioner of the Pew Commission on Environmen-tal Health, a past board member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and past president of the Society of Teachers of Emergency Medicine. He has now been elected to membership in the American College of Medical Informatics.