[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 171 (Tuesday, October 29, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1365]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         RECOGNIZING DR. MATTHEW C. WINKLEMAN OF HARRISBURG, IL

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                           HON. JOHN SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 29, 2019

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize Dr. Matthew C. 
Winkleman of Harrisburg, Illinois for having been honored with the 
Distinguished Service Award by the Illinois Academy of Family 
Physicians.
  Dr. Winkelman received this prestigious award because of his long-
standing dedication to providing outstanding primary care. Dr. 
Winkleman's focus on expanding access to health care to Southern 
Illinois over the past decades has ensured that quality care has always 
been available to those in need. Established by Dr. Winkleman, the 
Primary Care Group of Harrisburg, which has since evolved to become SIH 
Medical Primary Care Group Harrisburg, is among his many initiatives 
designed to ensure high-quality primary care. Especially important to 
this goal has been the successful recruitment of other dedicated 
physicians to the clinic.
  Dr. Winkleman's focus on primary care has led him to host medical 
students from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine to expose 
them to the need and opportunity which family medicine offers. Several 
students have followed Dr. Winkleman's example and themselves gone into 
rural family medicine.
  Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure I stand to recognize Dr. 
Winkleman for his leadership in health care in Southern Illinois. His 
dedication to this cause has benefited thousands, and I am pleased that 
he has been selected by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians to 
receive their 2019 Distinguished Service Award.

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