Convocation
Commencement of the Class of 2024
Garth Walker MD , MPH : Dr. Walker is an academic Emergency Physician, public health leader/operator, and founder in Chicago with academic, non-profit, and public/private sector experience. Dr. Walker is a recognized healthcare expert where he has been interviewed and quoted on several major local and national news networks such as MSNBC, Chicago Suntimes, ABC , and others. Dr. Walker received his bachelors in economics and minor in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago, master of public health at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, emergency medicine training at the University of Chicago, and served as an Health Equity and economics research Fellow with the Northwestern Buehler Center of Health Economics and Policy through the Center for Health Equity Transformation and Northwestern Emergency Department. Dr. Walker delivers emergency care at the Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Hospital and served as the former Deputy director of the Illinois Department of Public Health where he advised and served as internal and external representative for public health strategies during CoVID-19 around vaccine hesitancy and operations and Men's Health. Dr. Walker is an Assistant Professor at the Northwestern Emergency Department.