Garth N. Walker, MD, MPH
Garth N. Walker, MD, MPH
Attending Physician
Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs-Emergency Medicine
Dr. Walker is an Emergency Medicine specialist, researcher, and innovator in Chicago with academic, non-profit, and private sector experience in both start-ups and impact investing. Dr. Walker received his bachelors in economics and 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, and emergency medicine training at the University of Chicago Pritzker school of medicine.
Dr. Walker is an attending physician at the Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Hospital where he delivers emergency care to veterans and patients in the Chicagoland area. Dr. Walker also is an health equity fellow with the Northwestern Emergency Department and Northwestern Buehler Center for health economics and policy investigating social determinants of health in firearm injury recidivism and healthcare disparities related to opioid mortalities.
Dr. Walker is also a co-founder, chief medical officer and head of innovation for Clinify Inc. A tech platform that utilizes social determinant of health indicators to improve patient engagement, healthcare outcomes and reduce healthcare cost for vulnerable populations.
Dr. Walker’s civic interests are tied to firearm violence reduction, mentorship for diversity in medicine, and equitable education. Dr. Walker sits on the advisory board and research counsel for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), a national non-partisan foundation aimed to support research for effective firearm policy, mentor for LINK unlimited for public school student within the Chicagoland area and advisory board with Turning the Page, a national literacy and parental advocacy non-profit aimed to improve literacy, and educational outcomes in Chicago’s west side and DC underserved public schools