PNHP Officers:

Dr. Claudia Fegan is national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program. In her current and past leadership roles in PNHP she has appeared on national television and radio programs on behalf of the organization, and has testified before congressional committees on a wide range of health care issues. She has lectured extensively to both medical and community audiences on health care reform in the U.S. and Canada, and is a co-author of the book “Universal Healthcare: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience” and a contributor to “10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care.”

Dr. Fegan is chief medical officer for the Cook County Health and Hospital System and John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. She is also a past president and board member of the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. In 2016, Modern Healthcare named Dr. Fegan one of “10 Minority Executives to Watch,” noting her achievements in the medical profession and her single-payer activism. She is the 2017 recipient of the Paul Cornely award from the Physicians Forum.

Dr. Fegan received her undergraduate degree from Fisk University and her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, certified in health care quality and management, and a diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians.

Dr. Adam Gaffney is the immediate past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, chair of the Massachusetts chapter of PNHP, and a co-chair of the Working Group on Single-Payer Program Design, which developed the “Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform,” recently published at the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Gaffney is a prolific writer and blogger on health policy and also frequently appears on radio.

Dr. Gaffney is a pulmonary specialist at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Columbia University Medical Center. He recently completed a clinical and research fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Directors:
Nahiris M. Bahamón Fernández, MD, FAAP
Chris Cai, MD 2021
Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH
Stephen K. Chao, MD
Joshua J. Faucher, MD, JD
Stephen A. Gurley, MD 2022
Stephen B. Kemble, MD
Ashley Lewis, MD/PhD 2024
Rachel Madley, PhD 2021
Danny McCormick, MD, MPH
Mary E. O’Brien, MD
Janine Petito, MD
Susan Rogers, MD*
Jessica Schorr Saxe, MD
Ann M. Settgast, MD, DTM&H
Eve C. Shapiro, MD, MPH
Alankrita Siddula, MD 2021
Paul Y. Song, MD
Rex Tai, MD 2021
Philip Verhoef, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACP*

Past Presidents:
Garrett Adams, MD, MPH, FAAP
Carolyn Clancy, MD, MACP (temporarily resigned)
Andrew D. Coates, MD, FACP
Claudia Fegan, MD, FACP*
Oliver Fein, MD*
Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH*
John Geyman, MD
Robert LeBow, MD (deceased)
Ana Malinow, MD, MS, FAAP
Don McCanne, MD
Carol Paris, MD
Glenn Pearson, MD
Deb Richter, MD
Cecile Rose, MD, MPH
Jonathon Ross, MD, MPH
Jeffrey Scavron, MD
Gordon Schiff, MD
Susan Steigerwalt, MD, FACP
Isaac Taylor, MD (deceased)
Quentin Young, MD, MACP (deceased)
Robert L. Zarr, MD, MPH, FAAP

Board Advisers:
Henry L. Abrons, MD, MPH
John D. Bower, MD
Richard Bruno, MD, MPH
Harvey Fernbach, MD, MPH
Margaret Flowers, MD
Andrew Hyatt, MD
David McLanahan, MD
Karen Palmer, MPH, MS
Roona Ray, MD, MPH
Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH*
Robert C. Stone, MD
Arthur J. Sutherland III, MD
Kay Tillow
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH

* indicates executive committee member

National Office Staff:

Matthew Petty – Executive Director
Clare Fauke – Communications Specialist
Dixon Galvez-Searle – Communications Specialist
Kaytlin Gilbert – Organizer

Chapter Leaders:

For a list of chapters with contact information, please refer to our state page.