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Acting Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs/Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jon R. Krohmer

Jon R. Krohmer, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., is the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer of the United States Department of Homeland Security. He began his service with the Department in September 2006 and prior to his appointment to this position in August 2008, he served as the first Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Deputy Chief Medical Officer.

Prior to his work at the Department, he was an Attending Physician and Director of EMS, Emergency Medicine Residency and the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Spectrum Health Butterworth Campus in Grand Rapids, MI. In addition, Dr. Krohmer was an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. He is the former EMS Medical Director of Kent County Emergency Medical Services and was the Medical Director for the West Michigan Metropolitan Medical Response System, the Kent County Medical Reserve Corps and the Michigan Region 6 Bioterrorism Preparedness Consortium. He has been active in local, regional, state and national domestic preparedness activities for many years.

Dr. Krohmer received his undergraduate degree at Ferris State College, School of Pharmacy in Big Rapids, MI and is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, MI. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Wright State University in Dayton, OH and was Chief Resident there in 1985-1986. Dr. Krohmer also completed a Fellowship in EMS and Research at Wright State University. He currently is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a Diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Krohmer has been very active with both the American College of Emergency Physicians where he chaired the EMS Committee and the Trauma Care and Injury Control Committee as well as the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians where he was president of the organization and chaired the EMS Committee. He has been associated with the National Association of EMS Physicians since 1986, and served as president of the organization. He is a founding member of Advocates for EMS and is a past president. He is active in numerous other professional associations/ organization affliations.

Dr. Krohmer has received numerous awards and honors including the 1998 ACEP Outstanding Contribution in EMS Award, the 2000 MCEP Meritorious Service Award and the 2003 NAEMSP Ronald Stewart Award for Outstanding Contribution to EMS.

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