Contact Information

Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care
Website: http://phillyhealth.blogspot.com/

Media Contacts

Walter Tsou, M.D., MPH
(215) 242-6272
macman2@aol.com

Dr. Tsou is a nationally known consultant on public health and health care reform. Currently, he is on the visiting faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He was President of the American Public Health Association in 2005. He served as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia from April 2000 to February 2002. Prior to his appointment, he was the founding Deputy Director for Personal Health Services and Medical Director of the Montgomery County (PA) Health Department from 1991-2000. Before 1991, he was the Clinical Director in the Division of Ambulatory Health Services for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He has extensive experience in public health and has lectured widely on public health and health disparities.

He is a founding member of the National Board of Public Health Examiners and the national board of Physicians for a National Health Program. His medical degree is from the University of Pennsylvania; his MPH is from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and he has an honorary Doctorate in Medical Sciences from Drexel University.

Ana Malinow, M.D.
(713) 417-638
anamalinow@gmail.com

Ana Malinow was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and earned a BA from the University of California at Davis and a master’s degree in Creative Writing before completing her medical education at Case Western Reserve University. She completed residency in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland and practiced there as a pediatrician for 5 years, in an area where the patient to pediatrician ratio was 10,000:1.

Prior to moving to Pittsburgh, Dr. Malinow lived in Houston for 12 years. She was an associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Center at the Ben Taub General Hospital, where most of her patients were uninsured. She is co-founder of Health Care for all Texas, a grassroots organization that promotes single-payer national health insurance. She is also co-founder of Doctors for Change, an organization of health care professionals that organize for improved access to health care in Houston and Harris counties. She is immediate past president of PNHP.

Tim Lachman, M.D.
(610) 642-7110
tim.lachman@tuhs.temple.edu

Dr. Lachman graduated from Antioch College with a BA in Philosophy in 1963. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967, he interned at Pennsylvania Hospital. He was selected for the US Public Health Service, and was stationed for two years on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He was a neurology resident at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital from 1970 until 1973 and a fellow in clinical neurophysiology at the Mass General Hospital from 1973 until 1975.

In 1975, he joined a private practice in the Philadelphia area. He joined the neurology faculty at Hahnemann University from 1978 to 1982, when he returned to solo private practice at Lankenau Hospital. In December, 2006 he became a full-time faculty member in the Department of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine.

Scott Tyson, M.D.
(412) 5617541
styson@pediatricssouth.com

Dr. Scott Tyson, is the CEO of Pediatrics South. He received his training at Columbia University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Tyson completed his residency at Bellevue/Upstate and is board qualified.

William R. Davidson, Jr., M.D.
(717) 867-2492
billdavidsonjr@comcast.net

Dr. Davidson is a board certified Cardiologist who has been practicing in central Pennsylvania for nearly 30 years. After 8 years of undergraduate and medical training at the University of Virginia, he completed an Internship and Medical Residency in Baltimore. Prior to his Fellowship in Cardiology at the Hershey Medical Center, Dr. Davidson spent 3 years doing “whatever was needed” at a general hospital in rural Tanzania. The immediate past-president of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Dr. Davidson spends a lot of his spare time writing newspaper articles and giving lectures promoting Single-Payer healthcare reform.

Thomas R. Comerci, M.D.
732.221.5348
trcomerci@verizon.net

State Organizations Endorsing HR676

• Allegheny County Council, PA
• Erie, PA
• Wilkinsburg, PA
• Chester County Pennsylvania Democratic Committee

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

• AFGE Local 2028, Pittsburgh, PA
• United Electrical Workers Local 506, Erie, PA
• Independent State Store Union, Harrisburg, PA
• United Electrical Workers (UE)
• National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 84, Pittsburgh, PA
• Allegheny County Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Pittsburgh, PA
• Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR), Chapter 20-20, Aliquippa, PA
• Beaver-Lawrence Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Beaver, PA
• Pittsburgh Airman Lodge 1044, International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM), Pittsburgh, PA
• Greater Westmoreland County Labor Council, Greensburg, PA
• Butler County United Labor Council, Butler, PA
• Pittsburgh Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Pittsburgh, PA
• Philadelphia Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Philadelphia, PA
• Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, State Convention, April 6, 2006.
• District 1199P, SEIU, Harrisburg, PA
• Local 544, United Auto Workers (UAW), Fisher Body, West Mifflin, PA
• Local 668, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Harrisburg, PA
• Local 3, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Pittsburgh, PA
• Harrisburg Region Central Labor Council
• United Labor Council of Reading & Berks County
• Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP)

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