Garth Walker, MD

Garth Walker, MD, is an academic emergency physician, public health leader and founder in Chicago with academic, nonprofit and public/private sector experience. Walker is a recognized healthcare expert; he has been interviewed and quoted on several major local and national news networks such as MSNBC, Chicago Suntimes, ABC and others.

Walker received his bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also has a Master of Public Health degree from Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, received emergency medicine training at the University of Chicago and served as an Health Equity Fellow with the Northwestern Buehler Center of Health Economics and Policy through the Center for Health Equity Transformation and Northwestern Emergency Department. Walker delivers emergency care at the Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Hospital and is an assistant professor at the Northwestern Emergency Department.

Walker’s academic accomplishments include first-author scientific articles focused on social determinants of health, firearm injury and healthcare disparities, as well as runner-up for top paper with the Journal of Healthcare Management. He also reviews articles for several major scientific journals within emergency medicine and serves on the research counsel for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, a national nonpartisan foundation aimed to support research for effective firearm policy.

Walker’s civic involvement includes a mayoral appointment to the city of Chicago's equity advisory board, co-founder of IMPACT4HC, and appointments to several local and national nonprofit boards. Walker is an alumnus of Urban League IMPACT program, a current fellow with Leadership Greater Chicago and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.