Team Spotlight:
Anthony Falcon, MPA, PA-C
Emergency Care Partners (ECP) and Lake Emergency Partners (LEP) are proud to recognize Anthony Falcon, MPA, PA-C. As both a clinician and clinical executive, Anthony’s diverse medical background and commitment to quality healthcare define his impact on the field. As the Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) Director at Insight Chicago Hospital and Medical Center, Falcon manages clinical operations, administrative innovation, and patient care. His background in emergency care, inpatient hospitalist management, academic leadership, and peer mentorship allows him to lead clinical teams and support hospital partners.
Clinical Leadership Experience in Emergency Medicine
Demonstrating natural leadership early in his healthcare journey, Falcon earned his Master of Physician Assistant degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he also served as the Student Government Association Class President and was inducted into the Pi Alpha Honor Society. He is a published researcher in infectious diseases with work featured in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), and he has a background in community service, ranging from volunteering at free clinics to coordinating patient care resources. Certified in Basic Life Support (BLS), Falcon continues to advance patient-centered innovation and operational leadership across the medical community.
Falcon brings years of emergency medicine experience to his role, combining patient care with administrative leadership. In his emergency department tenure, he transitioned from clinical practice into department management. As the APC Director at Insight Chicago Hospital and Medical Center, this background supports his oversight of clinical operations.
Falcon’s leadership spans a wide range of acute care environments. He previously served as a Lead APC for a special operations internal locums team, managing multi-state workflows, supporting detox and telemedicine programs, and contributing to a CME curriculum committee. His clinical background also includes multi-specialty emergency, observation, and hospitalist work, where he established quality protocols for observation medicine. Additionally, he held roles in urgent care, primary care, and community healthcare systems, giving him experience aligning clinical needs with hospital operations.
Interview with Anthony Falcon
Q: When did you decide to become a physician?
I became enamored with medicine while studying anatomy and physiology for a degree in personal training and massage therapy. I quickly transitioned to PA school to go deeper into medicine.
Q: What is your favorite part about working with LEP and ECP?
Our work dynamic is relaxed and collegial, insulating us from inevitable ED challenges and burnout.
Q: What do you find most exciting about your job?
The fast paced and unpredictable nature of ED medicine, never a dull or complacent moment.
Q: What do you like to do outside of work?
Playing ball with my golden doodle Sazerac, trying to make Michelin level home meals and Netflix binging.
Q: What is one thing you wish more people understood about emergency medicine?
The importance of self-advocacy: taking ownership of knowing and understanding your pathology, medications and health history.
Q: What has been the most meaningful moment in your medical career so far?
Working towards a healthy work/life balance.
Q: What advice would you give to a new physician entering the field?
Be the provider that facilitates all your colleagues. No job is beneath you, no one’s perspective is unworthy.
About Lake Emergency Partners (LEP):
Lake Emergency Partners (LEP) is an emergency medicine group with a unique partnership and ownership model that attracts emergency medicine professionals seeking the culture of accountability and innovation necessary to meet today’s healthcare challenges. LEP’s mission is to provide the highest level of patient care by valuing, supporting, and treating physicians fairly. LEP supports emergency departments within Insight Health and OSF Health Systems throughout Illinois and Michigan.
About Emergency Care Partners (ECP):
Headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, ECP is the largest single specialty provider of emergency medicine in the United States. With client partners in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Vermont, ECP currently treats more than 1,700,000 patient visits annually at 66 sites of service. ECP supports a clinical workforce of 1000+ physicians and mid-level providers. The company employs a differentiated model relative to other platforms in the industry, highlighted by the ability to maintain ownership through its physician partnership model with regional/local groups to maintain their brand and clinical autonomy while benefitting from ECP’s resources.
For more information, please visit www.ecp.net.