Contact Information
Email: pnhpgeorgia@gmail.com
Twitter: @PNHPGeorgia
Facebook: PNHP Georgia
Steering Committee
- Chair: Stephen Gurley, M.D.
- Vice Chair: Marshall Fleurant, M.D., M.P.H.
- Communications Officer: Liz McCord, M.D.
- Operations Officer: Mindy Guo, M.D., M.P.H.
- Membership Working Group: Toby Terwilliger, M.D.
- Communications / Media Working Group: Jack Bernard and Jay Bowman-Kirigin, M.D., Ph.D.
- Legislative Working Group: Colleen Tope, D.M.Sc., P.A.C. and Alyssa Greenhouse, M.D., M.P.H.
- Outreach Working Group: Brendan Pulsifer, M.D. Candidate and Mark Craig
- Founding Member: Henry Kahn, M.D.
The Steering Committee of the Georgia Chapter of PNHP includes physicians and other health care advocates. Each has their own story of how their social justice advocacy efforts led them to see that expanded and improved Medicare for All is the most cost effective and just pathway to universal health insurance coverage in the U.S.
Jack Bernard
Jack Bernard was the first Director of Health Planning for the State of Georgia. He then entered the private sector and served as a senior level executive with national health care firms including Humana, NME (now Tenet), Premier, and MedAssets. Jack has also been a local activist, serving on the Jasper (GA) County Board of Commissioners from 2005 through 2012. He has been on numerous other committees and boards, including the Jasper County Board of Health and the Fayette County Board of Health, where he is now Chair. He is also on various state and national health boards. He has been a mentor/counselor with SCORE (an SBA affiliate) since 2008, concentrating on the SCORE region for the Atlanta multi-county area south of I-20. He is an editorial writer having written over 1,250 columns specializing in health care, social, and political issues.
Jay Bowman-Kirigin, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Jay Bowman-Kirigin is a cardiology fellow with Emory University. Hailing from Salt Lake City, he completed MD/PhD training in St. Louis and, while there, helped found his medical school’s local SNaHP chapter. He later served on the Missouri PNHP Board. During his medical training, Dr. Bowman-Kirigin witnessed countless health care tragedies, and waste, which resulted from our broken health care system. These experiences reaffirmed his conviction that we can’t afford not to guarantee all Americans access to quality affordable health care.
Alyssa Greenhouse, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Alyssa Greenhouse is an Assistant Professor with the Emory University School of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital. Originally from South Carolina, Dr. Greenhouse followed in the footsteps of her physician-alumni parents and moved to Atlanta to train at Emory School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, where she received her MD and MPH degrees respectively. She was an active member of Health Students Taking Action Together (H-STAT) where she worked with and learned from many leaders in PNHP. She completed residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She returned to Atlanta and Grady in 2025 to combine her passions for adult general medicine, physician advocacy, and healthcare system improvement.
Mindy Guo, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Mindy Guo is a family medicine physician with Emory University and has lived in New Mexico, California, Missouri, and now Georgia. She completed residency training in 2021 as well as her Masters in Public Health in 2022. She is a fierce advocate for patients and for public health, and believes that access to health care is a right that must be established for all Americans.
Stephen Gurley, M.D.
Dr. Stephen Gurley is an Assistant Professor of Hospital Medicine at Emory University, where he cares for Atlanta’s underserved patients at Grady Memorial Hospital. Originally from Reston, VA, he moved to Atlanta to attend Emory for medical school and to obtain an MPH. While a student, he served on the national executive board of SNaHP, as well as president of the statewide advocacy nonprofit Health Students Taking Action Together (H-STAT) which advocates for statewide solutions to our broken health system, like Medicaid expansion. He stuck around at Emory for internal medicine residency, before joining faculty at Emory.
Henry Kahn, M.D.
Dr. Henry Kahn, an early chapter leader, is now a retired internal medicine physician, an Emeritus Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health. He moved to Atlanta to join the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (1972-1974), later returning to CDC as a full-time epidemiologist of chronic diseases (2001-2018). As a volunteer physician in 1973, he was Emory’s first faculty member appointed in primary care. He played a major role in developing the neighborhood health centers associated with Grady Hospital. He has been involved in social justice advocacy efforts since high school and was one of the founding members of PNHP national.
Chris Masi, M.D. Ph.D.
Dr. Christopher Masi is a general internist who practices at Emory University, where he is a Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair of Quality and Clinical Effectiveness in the Department of Medicine. He has conducted research on social determinants of health and strategies to improve quality of care. He is eager to improve access to care for all populations and views a national health plan as the best way to achieve this goal.
Belinda McIntosh, M.D.
Dr. Belinda McIntosh is originally from Jamaica and immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She has lived in New York, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Georgia. She completed residency training in psychiatry in 2003 and has worked in a variety of clinical settings including private practice, the Veterans Administration, and Student Health Services at Georgia Tech and Emory University, where she held an appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is a staunch supporter of single-payer health care.
Elizabeth McCord, M.D.
Dr. Elizabeth McCord is originally from New Orleans, but has found her permanent home in Atlanta. She completed both her internal medicine / psychiatry residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Emory University. She is a proud advocate of U.S. health care reform through a single-payer system and supports other local advocacy groups that fight for human rights.
Toby Terwilliger, M.D.
Dr. Toby Terwilliger is an Assistant Professor in Emory University School of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital. Originally from upstate New York, Dr. Terwilliger completed his medical school coursework in New York City before moving to Newark, N.J. for residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. After residency, he and his wife moved to Atlanta for her sports medicine fellowship and fell in love with the city. Dr. Terwilliger first became involved in PNHP while caring for underserved patients at our nation’s oldest public hospital, Bellevue, in NYC, and has since worked in safety net hospitals, where the patients he treats have been victimized by the U.S. healthcare non-system for most of their lives. Dr. Terwilliger is currently in the Society of General Internal Medicine Leadership in Health Policy (LEAHP) scholars program, where he hopes to gain the knowledge and skills to advocate more effectively for an equitable, universal health care system.
Rita Valenti, R.N.
Rita Valenti is a Registered Nurse, now retired from Grady Health Systems after 28 years of service. She worked in Trauma, Surgical Intensive Care, and the Grady Infectious Diseases Clinic. Rita was elected to the Georgia State Legislature in 1990 after door-to-door campaigning with nurses and community activists. As part of Georgians for a Common Sense Health Plan, she introduced legislation for a single-payer system in Georgia in 1992. She is a founder and member of Project South and on the Board of Healthcare-NOW. She is active with National Nurses United and the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, and is a current advisor to Health Students Taking Action Together. She is a passionate fighter for health justice and Medicare for All.