Full name: Jeanne Bourland Held Blumhagen

Birth: July 6, 1923 in Seattle, WA

Family:

Parents: Harry McClelland Bourland and Mother.

Siblings: Older sister Pat (Mary Alice Patricia) and younger sister Margie

Marital Status: Married Rex Vernon Blumhagen in December 1943

Children: Dan (b. 1946), Susan, Wendy, Karyn

Education:

1941-1942 - Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 1942-1943 - University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1943 - Whitworth College, Spokane, WA,

1948 - B.S. University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.

1949 - M.D. University of Illinois, School of Medicine

Career:

1949-1951 - Worked as Contract Physician for United Mineworkers, Pikeville, KY

1951 - Served as in a volunteer capacity a consultant to the School of Midwifery and emergency obstetrics physician for the Frontier Nursing Service, Hyden, KY.

1952 - Worked as a consultant to the Merced County Children’s Convalescent Hospital in Merced, CA.

1953-1956 - Served as the Assistant Director of Public Health for Maternal and Child Car the Madera County Hospital, Madera, CA. 1957 - Served as Director of Public Health, Madera County, CA.

November 1960 – August 1964 - Served as Embassy Medical Officer alongside husband Rex Blumhagen, U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, until removed from position by Ambassador Byroade.

1965 - Resident Physician, General Practice at Tulare County Hospital, Tulare, CA.

February 1966 – May 1972 - Returned to Afghanistan with husband Rex Blumhagen under the auspices of Bible Medical and Missionary Fellowship but seconded to MAP, serving as Deputy Director of Medical Assistance Programs (Afghanistan Project), which involved the development of mobile medical clinics.

1968-1969 - Home leave in the United States

1972-1973 - Transition to Program Director, alongside husband Rex Blumhagen, of Medical Assistance Programs (Afghanistan Project).

July 1973 – October 1973 - Served as interim pediatrics physician in Shanta Bawan Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

1973-1974 - Served as consultant in Rural Health Care Delivery for BMMF and Tearfund.

1974 - Returned to the United States and settled in Wheaton, IL, where Rex Blumhagen was instrumental in starting the emergency services department at Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) and Jeanne Blumhagen taught public health classes at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

1975-1977 - Served as adjunct faculty, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, teaching introductory public health courses and designing upper level courses.

1977 - Employed by the American Public Health Association as a rural health care consultant.

1977-1978 - Resident Pediatrics Physician at the University of Illinois Hospital system

1978 - Rex and Jeanne Blumhagen launched Blumhagen Medical Services as a service corporation to establish urgent care centers and consultation services at Delnor Hospital, St. Charles, IL and Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL.

1981 - Became a member of the Wheaton College Board of Trustees, replacing Ruth Bell Graham.

1989-1992 - Returned to BMMF (now InterServe) as international medical advisors to InterServe based in Cyprus but traveling to North Africa, Gulf of Arabia, Afghanistan, South and Central Asia, among others.