Dr. Kurczynski is a professor of pediatrics at West Virginia University, Charleston She is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin.
Sara Weinberg
Dr. Weinberg is a Retired pediatrician, Mercer Island, and an expert on Washington state’s history of failed health reforms, going back to the 1989 Braddock initiative. Dr. Weinberg graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1977 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Washington’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital.
Hugh Foy
Dr. Foy is a professor of Surgery, UW School of Medicine, and Director of the Surgical Specialties Clinic, Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Foy has extensive experience in emergency care and trauma surgery. He trained at UW, and completed a fellowship in Burn Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Harborview. Dr. Foy is the co-founder of the Washington Chapter of PNHP.
Don Mitchell, MD
Dr. Mitchell was trained at Harvard and is a retired internist and Chair, Western Washington chapter of PNHP.
Susan Miller, MD
Family Physician - Contact for speaker’s bureau.
Charles Robideau
Contact for union groups
Ferguson Reid, MD
Retired Surgeon - Ex member House of Delegates and contact for Central VA
Joe Mason MD
Psychiatrist - Contact for Charlottesville area
Jan Gable MD
Internist - Northern VA and liaison to VA Coalition for Guaranteed Healthcare
Marvin Malek, MD
Dr. Malek received his medical training at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY, residency training at Cook County Hospital, and has spent most of his career in community medicine, providing care to underserved populations. He is the recipient of a Kellogg Foundation grant which he used to pursue advanced training in the field of health policy at Harvard School of Public Health.
He currently practices internal medicine at Central Vermont Hospital, where he provides medical consultation and intensive care to hospitalized patients.
Frustrated by the timidity of the legislation that was enacted in Vermont in 2006, he ran for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont that year and for State Rep this year, hoping to work on the health care issue.
Marvin remains active on the issue of health reform. He has testified before the legislature and given talks around the state advocating for a more humane and affordable health care system.
Jason Kelley, MD
Dr. Jason Kelley is an internist at the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Vermont where he serves as chief of the hospital medicine division. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and did residencies at the Harlem Hospital Center/Columbia University and at the University of Vermont. He is a professor emeritus from the University of Vermont and is currently a visiting professor at Dartmouth Medical School. From 2001 through 2010 he served as vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Louisville and chief of medicine at the Louisville VA Medical Center. He joined PNHP in 1992 and served as the Vermont chapter president from 1994-1997.
Peggy Carey, MD
Dr. Carey attended the University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Vermont. Upon completing her residency, she joined the Family Medicine Department at UVM and for fifteen years created and directed the Community Medicine and Prevention Programs of the department’s residency. She has done research on views of Residents on single-payer healthcare as well as collaborative research on Adolescent Substance Abuse as well as the development of a Patient Decision Making Aid for Prediabetes. She is a former chair of the Vermont Physicians for a National Program chapter while practicing family medicine in a rural practice in the Champlain Islands near Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Carey has been a member of PNHP since 1990.
