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. Before joining the Foundation in April 2003, Lumpkin served as first African American Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years.

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 has served on the boards of directors for the Public Health Foundation, National Quality Forum, and as speaker and board of director’s member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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.