Support student activists in Florida!
Medical and health professional students represent the future of our movement! PNHP Florida has launched a student fund to support local members of Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP).
We will underwrite Fla. student participation in PNHPās Northern New England Summer Internship program; help fund scholarships for the PNHP Annual Meeting and SNaHP Summit; and generally support new and established SNaHP chapters throughout the state.
Donate to the PNHP Florida Student Fund HERE!
Chapter Contacts
Leonardo Alonso, D.O.
(904) 994-0857
rlalonso@comcast.net
I completed my medical school in 1989 at NOVA Southeastern and did a one-year osteopathic internship in Chicago upon graduation. I moved to Bakersfield, CA to complete my residency in Emergency Medicine at Kern Medical Center, then returned to Jacksonville, FL, my home state, with my new family, Alejandro and Gwendolyn. I was drawn to Emergency Medicine, partly for the immediacy of rapid results that impact people’s health but also by the legislated open door policy that we must treat everyone who enters our department regardless of their financial status. I began exploring health systems, became aware of PNHP, and have been a member for over 20 years. I was the director of the Emergency Department at Orange Park Medical Center and learnt much about how the for-profit hospital and physician contract groups operate.
My wife, Reagan, and I met in the Peace Corps in the early 1980’s (after college) where we served in Honduras. I am of Cuban descent and fluent in Spanish, which helps me better serve the Hispanic community locally. She is an RN and we both have volunteered for many years in medical missions on an annual basis to Honduras, plus at a local free clinic for the working uninsured called Volunteers in Medicine (Primary Care Clinic), where I was Chairman of the Board for several years. I am currently working with a team of Emergency Medicine physicians from UCLA trying to start our specialty in Honduras, where it is nonexistent. We are collaborating with the dean of the medical school in Tegucigalpa. I have also worked as a locums tenem physician in Vermont, West Virginia, Georgia, and Oregon, which has given me a better understanding of health care on a rural and national level.
I am excited about the formation of the Florida Chapter of PNHP and hope to be an active member.
Greg Silver, M.D.
(727) 712-3280
drsilver@drsilver.net
Dr. Silver is a solo, practicing family physician in Clearwater, Florida. He has been an active lecturer and consultant in the areas of healthcare reform, electronic medical records and the adoption of new medical technologies.
Howard A. Green, M.D., FACP, FAAD | 561-659-1510 | hag2@comcast.net
Dr Green received his education at George Washington University and The Boston University of Medicine. He did his post doctoral work at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and at Harvard Medical School.
Local Unions Endorsing Single Payer
- United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 630, West Palm Beach, FL
- North Central Florida Central Labor Council, Gainesville, FL
- Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 9-36 F 5, Cape Coral, FL
- North Florida Central Labor Council, Jacksonville, FL
- District Lodge 112, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers(IAM), Jacksonville, FL
- Florida State Alliance for Retired Americans
- Lodge 721, IAM, Jacksonville, FL
- Local Union 295, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (UA), Daytona Beach, FL
- Florida AFL-CIO
- West Central Florida Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Tampa, FL
- Local 2779, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
- Palm Beach-Treasure Coast AFL-CIO