John Steven Cummins

John Steven Cummins serves as the Medical Director of Rosecrance Behavioral Health's Ware Center's Certified Community Behavioral Health Center since May 2025 and holds the position of Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. Previous roles include Medical Director, Associate Medical Director, Director of Medical Education, and Attending Psychiatrist at Elgin Mental Health Center, as well as Staff Psychiatrist at Advocate Aurora Health and Associate Medical Director for Inpatient Psychiatry at UI Health. John Cummins's experience in academia includes serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, alongside leadership and clinical roles during residency at the University of Missouri Health Care. Educational credentials include an MD from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a BA in Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies from Grinnell College, with additional qualifications in creative writing and pre-medicine.