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Garth N. Walker, MD, MPH, currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of Rush Health and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, roles held since December 2022. In addition to this position, Garth Walker is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations as of July 2023. Walker has extensive experience in emergency medicine, having served as Attending Physician at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center from June 2019 to January 2024, and as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University from December 2020 to November 2022. Notable past roles include White House Fellow at the Department of Health and Human Services, Deputy Director at the Illinois Department of Public Health, and Resident Physician at the University of Chicago Medicine. Garth Walker holds an MPH degree from Northwestern University and an MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, along with a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Rush Health is a collaborative, member-based network of Chicago-area physicians and hospitals, working together to improve health through high quality, efficient health services covering the spectrum of patient care from wellness, prevention and health promotion, to disease management and complex care management. Rush Health includes more than 1,900 professional providers in approximately 136 practices. Rush Health members share abundant resources and benefit from the services Rush Health provides. Rush Health is organized around the following services: • Payer contracting • Membership and network • Care management • Quality monitoring • IT and analytics Rush Health includes four hospitals: Riverside, Rush Copley Medical Center, Rush Oak Park Hospital, and Rush University Medical Center.