Elmore F. Rigamer, MD, MPA, is currently Medical Director for Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans where he currently directs several disaster relief programs for victims of the Katrina hurricane disaster. Rigamer received his training in psychiatry at The New York Hospital- Cornell University an Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He received his MPA from Harvard University.

Prior to joining Catholic Charities, Dr. Rigamer served the US Department of State as Medical Director advising the Secretary of State on international health issues while overseeing the health care of Foreign Service diplomats and their families. He also served the US Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Medical Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mental Health, Director of Mental Health Services, and Regional Psychiatrist for Europe, the Soviet Union, and South Asia. Dr. Rigamer has also held positions with Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization and the Ochsner Clinic as well as served as a Peace Corps Volunteer Physician in Monrovia, Liberia.

Dr. Fiedorowicz is a board-certified psychiatrist and clinical investigator.

He is a graduate of Marquette University and obtained and M.D.with Honors in Research from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He then completed a transitional year internship at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI followed by a psychiatry residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as a chief resident. He concluded a fellowship in the clinical neurobiology at the University of Iowa, where he has also received a master’s degree in clinical investigation. His work focuses on excess mortality in mental illness with a focus on suicide and vascular disease.

Dr. Walker attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati and did his residency at Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA and Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, OH. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at Ohio State University.

He is active in clinical practice in the above two specialties; also a clinical professor at a local medical school, and active with local free clinic projects using telemedicine to identify patients with diabetic retinopathy before severe damage develops. Dr. Walker is also involved with projects in developing countries including Nicaragua, Honduras, and Fiji.

Dr. Carroll is currently an assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Children’s Health Services Research Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998, and then he completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He stayed at the University of Washington to complete a health services research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. During that time he received his masters degree in Health Services and a certificate in Public Health Informatics. Dr. Carroll’s current research interests include the use of technology in health care, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis, and health policy and professionalism.

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.