Dr. Pam Gronemeyer is a PNHP member, co-president of PNHP-IL (southern division), board member of Missourians for Single-Payer, and vice president of the Illinois Single Payer Coalition board. She is a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist. She received a biology degree from Washington University in St. Louis; attended Tufts University School of Medicine; and completed her pathology residencies at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Barnes-Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and St. Louis University Hospitals.

Dr. Gronemeyer is the director and a woman small business owner of SEMC Pathology, LLC in Highland, IL, a pathology business that provides services to six critical access hospitals in southwestern Illinois – St. Joseph’s Hospital (Highland, IL), Red Bud Regional Hospital (Red Bud, IL), Washington County Hospital (Nashville, IL), Pinckneyville Community Hospital (Pinckneyville, IL), Marshall Browning Hospital (DuQuoin, IL) and Community Memorial Hospital (Staunton, IL). The service also runs a CAP accredited cytology laboratory with testing for sexually-transmitted diseases and gynecologic and nongynecologic cytologies.

She is actively involved in directing the infection control committees in the hospitals as well as working on quality assurance activities and advocating for patient safety. She believes “healthcare is a human right” and provides healthcare insurance to her employees and their dependents. She is an activist in her community and in the healthcare arena. As the child of a late union laborer, she knows that our safety net is vital to the preservation of our democracy.

Dr. Woodhouse serves as associate director of the Idaho State University Family Medicine Residency Program in Pocatello. Prior to moving to Idaho in 1994 he practiced family medicine in Sheridan, WY. His areas of expertise and interest include evidence-based medicine, professional leadership, health care policy and writing. He is a past president of the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians and is a delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates. He is a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Health Care and Access and the Idaho Medical Association Committee for the Uninsured. He is also a member of Physicians for a National Health Program and completed their Leadership Training Institute in 2004.

Dr. Gise is a Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, She is the contact person for the PNHP Hawaii State Chapter.

Dr. Blumenthal is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Charity Hospital of New Orleans (Tulane Division) and received his master of public health degree from Emory University. He is board-certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine.

He has served as a VISTA Volunteer physician in Lee County, Arkansas; as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta; as a faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine; and as a medical epidemiologist with the World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Program in India and Somalia. Since 1985, he has chaired the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Dr. Kahn has practiced general internal medicine in Atlanta since 1973. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he was a resident (internal medicine) at Boston City Hospital followed by a year at Lincoln Hospital (pediatrics) in the Bronx, New York City. He came to Atlanta to serve 2 years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and has stayed there as a faculty member in the Emory University School of Medicine.

Beyond his teaching and research in chronic-disease prevention, he worked to establish the neighborhood health centers associated with Grady Memorial Hospital. He is now Professor Emeritus in Emory’s Department of Family & Preventive Medicine and on the adjunct faculty of Morehouse School of Medicine. His current day job includes research as a chronic-disease epidemiologist.

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.

John Battista, M.D. is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who practices in New Milford, Connecticut. In addition, he provides psychiatric services to the Staywell Clinic in Waterbury, Connecticut and the Wellspring Foundation in Bethlehem, Connecticut.

Dr. Battista has coordinated the Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care since 1999. This coalition advocates for a publicly funded, not-for-profit trust, to administer comprehensive health insurance for all Connecticut residents. Dr. Battista is also the primary author of the Connecticut Health Care Security Act, which would put this universal health care insurance program into effect.

Dr. Tom Gottlieb has 48 years experience in health care and was trained as a biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder and as a physician at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) in Denver. He worked in the Public Health Service (Indian Health Service), University of Colorado Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Denver Neighborhood Health Center (medical director), and private practice (Internal Medicine) in West Denver. His experiences include directorship of the Lutheran Medical Center Joint Venture (an Accountable Care Organization), a founder and medical director of a primary care group, New West Physicians, and founder and president of Denver Oncology Consortium. He practiced evidence-based practice principles with an emphasis on patient values and patient centered decision making. He is now retired and is devoting his time to introduce and implement universal health care financed by a public single-payer system. He has served as a board member for Health Care for All Colorado Foundation since November 2011 and was newly elected president in 2013.

Dr. Pauk received his medical degree was from the University of Iowa, and postdoctoral training was at Gorgas Hospital in Panama, U. of Iowa, and Harvard Medical School. He resides in Phoenix. His experience includes research and practice of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and teaching medical students and nurse practitioners. He has served in positions on the staff of the University of Maine, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Texas.