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10 EXCELLENT REASONS FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE |
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About the Contributors Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Health Policy and Community Partnerships at Columbia University Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities. His areas of research include minority health, health disparities, health insurance, and access to care. Representative John Conyers Jr., a Detroit Democrat, was re-elected to the 14th Congressional District in November 2006, to his twenty-first term in the U.S. House of Representatives. For more than three decades, Congressman Conyers has led efforts in Congress to reform the health care system. He is the founder and chairman of the Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force. Rose Ann DeMoro is the Executive Director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, which, with 80,000 members, is the nation's largest union of direct care RNs. DeMoro has been honored by MSN as one of the most influential women of 2006, in Esquire's Best and Brightest issue, and as one of the 100 most influential persons in health care by Modern Healthcare for several years running. Claudia M. Fegan, MD, is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for the Ambulatory and Community Health Network for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services and the former President of Physicians for a National Health Program. The daughter of a labor union organizer and a social worker, Fegan received her undergraduate degree from Fisk University and MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Oliver Fein, MD, is a practicing general internist, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health. and Associate Dean at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He is Vice President of the American Public Health Association. Chair of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and President. elect of National PNHP. Leo W. Gerard is International President of the United Steelworkers and is the son of a nickel miner. As an eleven-year-old, he listened to union meetings held by his father in the basement of the family home. They instilled basic social democratic values and union principles and led to a lifelong commitment to social change and justice. Marie Gottschalk, PhD, is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. A former journalist and editor, she is the author of. among other works. The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business. and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell, 2000) and The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge, 2006). Joanne Landy, MPH, MA, is the former executive director of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. In addition to working on health care issues, Landy is co-director of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. Martha Livingston, PhD, is Associate Professor of Health and Society at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Mary E. O'Brien, MD, is a primary care internist at Columbia University Health Services and a faculty member at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is on the Board of Directors of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program and is the chair of its media committee. Leonard Rodberg, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, where he teaches health policy and other urban issues. He was one of the founders of Physicians for a National Health Program and now serves as Research Director of the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP. Mark Rukavina is the Executive Director of the Access Project. which focuses on promoting health access at the local community level. He oversees all programs designed to assist communities in their efforts to address the health care access issue. He is responsible for developing strategies and community linkages with state and national health policy administrators. Jaime Torres, DPM, MS, is the founder and president of Latinos for National Health Insurance, a national coalition of Latino leaders advocating for national health insurance. He is also an Associate at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York and was on the Advisory Board of the National Hispanic Medical Association. Nathan Wilkes is an entrepreneur and devoted father, currently living with his wife and three children outside Denver, Colorado. When not working, he often lectures on patient advocacy and emergency preparedness. Wilkes is currently on the boards of Health Care for All Colorado and the National Business Coalition for Health Care Reform. James Winkler is the General Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society, the social justice and public policy advocacy agency of the eight-million-member United Methodist Church. The board is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC in the historic United Methodist Building and works to secure health care for all people. Cindy Zeldin is a health policy researcher with nearly a decade of public policy experience at the state and national levels. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Health Services Research and Health Policy at Emory University.
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