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Nahiris M. Bahamón, MD

Nahiris M. Bahamón, MD

Pediatrics

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Dr. Nahiris M. Bahamón is a community pediatrician at Lowell Community Health Center in Lowell, MA. She is an experienced advocate for increased access to high quality health care, especially for immigrant and other marginalized communities. Dr. Bahamón has also worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics to increase awareness about the needs of immigrant families, and to increase access to culturally sensitive, high quality care. Originally from Colombia, she moved to the U.S. as a refugee with her family.

Dr. Bahamón has been active in the movement for Medicare for All since medical school. She was a co-founder of Residents for a National Health Program and served on the PNHP Board of Directors. Dr. Bahamón earned her medical degree from Boston University and completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago. She is available to speak in English and Spanish.

Wayne Strouse, MD, FAAFP

Wayne Strouse, MD, FAAFP

Family Medicine

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Dr. Wayne Strouse is a rural family medicine physician who has practiced for 25 years in the Finger Lakes region of New York state, where he was recognized as New York State Family Doctor of the Year in 2020.

He has served as a director of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians, the Medical Staff President of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital, and a member of the Board of Finger Lakes Health System.

Dr. Strouse earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia, followed by an internship at the Naval Hospital Charleston, and residency at the Kingsport Family Practice Residency in Tennessee.

Dr. Strouse’s passion for Medicare for All was inspired by his diverse experiences both in and out of the U.S. From 1987 to 1992, he served as a medical officer for the U.S. Navy, where personnel receive comprehensive and affordable health care within the military system. Dr. Strouse also practiced in New Zealand in 2004-05, where he worked at a Maori tribe-owned clinic and saw firsthand the benefits of a national health system. A fierce advocate for health justice, Dr. Strouse is a founding member of the Central and Western NY Chapter of PNHP.

Sanjeev K. Sriram, MD, MPH

Sanjeev K. Sriram, MD, MPH

Pediatric Medicine

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Dr. Sanjeev Sriram practices general pediatrics in Maryland at a federally qualified health center. He is a nationally known advocate for health care justice and racial equity, serving on the board of Physicians for National Health Program, as a Senior Advisor for Social Security Works, and as the leader of the “All Means All” campaign to make racial equity a cornerstone of a future national health program. Dr. Sriram has been a contributor to The Huffington Post, The Hill, Common Dreams, Rewire, We Act Radio, and ACT-TV. 

Dr. Sriram completed his medical degree and residency at UCLA, where he served as chief resident at the Department of Pediatrics. He earned his masters in public health after completing the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Scott Goldberg, MD

Scott Goldberg, MD

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Scott Goldberg is a Rheumatology fellow at NYU Langone Medical Center. He previously served as an attending physician and assistant professor of General Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and was core faculty in the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Residency program. Dr. Goldberg earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed residency in internal medicine-primary care at UC-San Francisco. 

Dr. Goldberg is a longtime advocate for Medicare for All: As a medical student, he co-founded a chapter of Students for a National Health Program, and as a working physician he serves on the national board of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Judith Albert, MD

Judith Albert, MD

OB/GYN and Reproductive Endocrinology

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Dr. Judy Albert is a reproductive endocrinologist. She served as a full-time faculty member of the Departments of OB-GYN at both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh. For 30 years, Dr. Albert was a physician-owner of a women-owned and operated practice devoted to reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and IVF services in Pittsburgh. She retired in 2019, and currently devotes much of her time to health care justice advocacy. In 2016, Dr. Albert co-founded a local chapter of PNHP in Western Pennsylvania and is a member of the Western PA Coalition for Single Payer, the national board of PNHP, and the steering committee of National Single Payer. 

Dr. Albert received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Magee-Women’s Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, and completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Pennsylvania.

Peter Steinglass, MD, DLFAPA, FAAAP

Peter Steinglass, MD, DLFAPA, FAAAP

Psychiatry

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Dr. Peter Steinglass is president emeritus and director of the Ackerman Center for Substance Abuse and the Family. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is also a member of the Physicians for a National Health Program New York Metro chapter’s board of directors.

Dr. Steinglass has received many honors for his work in academic psychiatry as well as for his clinical and research collaborations with medical and mental health institutions, including the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s Cumulative Contribution to Family Therapy Research Award, and the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Research Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. He is also a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American Academy for Addiction Psychiatry.

Most recently, Dr. Steinglass was the recipient of the 2009 Mona Mansell Award from New York’s Freedom Institute, signifying his contributions to the substance abuse treatment field. His research on alcoholism and on chronic medical illness as they affect family life has provided vital information for the clinical community. Dr. Steinglass has written more than 90 articles, book chapters, and books on these subjects.

Gordon Schiff, MD

Gordon Schiff, MD

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Gordon (Gordy) Schiff is a practicing general internist; associate director of Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice (Quality); safety director for the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Primary Care; and associate professor of Medicine at HMS. He also serves as the course director of the HMS Masters Program in Quality and Safety Special Topics course.

Dr. Schiff worked for more than three decades at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where he directed the General Medicine Clinic, led the Department of Medicine Quality program, and chaired the institution’s P&T (Formulary) Committee, in addition to serving as professor of medicine at Rush Medical College.

Dr. Schiff has published widely in the areas of medication and diagnosis safety, having authored 250 papers and chapters, including several papers detailing conservative prescribing and diagnosis practices as ways to transform current unsafe and costly use of drugs and diagnostic testing. He chairs the editorial board of Medical Care and serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Public Health Policy and BMJ Quality and Safety in Healthcare.

A longtime advocate for Medicare for All, Dr. Schiff is a founding member and past president of PNHP.

Elizabeth R. Rosenthal, MD

Elizabeth R. Rosenthal, MD

Dermatology

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Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal is a retired dermatologist residing in Westchester County, NY, where she practiced for 31 years. For several years, she served on the volunteer faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she supervised residents and students in the pediatric dermatology clinic. Dr. Rosenthal earned her medical degree from New York University Medical School, and completed her postgraduate training in Syracuse, Detroit, and Boston. Dr. Rosenthal is a member of the executive committee of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Mary E. O'Brien, MD

Mary E. O’Brien, MD

Primary Care

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Dr. Mary O’Brien has been a practicing primary care physician in New York City for the past 35 years – first as associate director of an urban emergency department for 10 years and now as a primary care physician at Columbia. She is double-boarded in internal medicine and emergency medicine. For several summers she has volunteered at a rural clinic in the Mississippi while the medical director takes vacation time. She currently precepts fourth-year medical students at Columbia in their primary care rotation. A member of the board of directors of Physicians for a National Health Program, Dr. O’Brien is also a member of the New York Metro chapter’s executive committee.

Donald E. Moore, MD, MPH

Donald E. Moore, MD, MPH

General Medicine

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Dr. Donald Moore runs a full-time general medicine practice in Brooklyn and has distinguished himself through service to his community and his profession. He is also an attending physician at New York Methodist Hospital and teaches medicine students at Weill Cornell Medical College and nurse practitioner students at NYU and Hunter College. He is a board member of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Dr. Moore has served as president of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine (AYAM) and president of the Medical Society of the County of Kings. He had received numerous awards including the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from AYAM and awards for teaching excellence from Weill Cornell. He has been recognized for his humanitarian efforts in health care delivery by the New York State Senate and U.S. Congress.

Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH

Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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Dr. Adam Gaffney. is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a health policy researcher, and a writer and commentator on issues of medicine and policy.

His research focuses on national health care reform, health care equity, and disparities in lung health. Dr. Gaffney has authored or co-authored more than 60 journal articles, with first-author publications in such journals as the Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, the American Journal of Public Health, and elsewhere. He is also the author of the book “To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History,” published in 2017 by Routledge.

A past-president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), Dr. Gaffney is also a frequent writer on matters of health care and policy, and has published articles in outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, New Republic, USA Today, and the Boston Globe. He is also a frequent media guest, and has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, Fox Business News, the BBC, and elsewhere.

Dr. Gaffney received his medical degree from New York University and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency at the Columbia University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Sherif Emil, MD, CM, FRCSC, FACS, FAAP

Sherif Emil, MD, CM, FRCSC, FACS, FAAP

Pediatric Surgery

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Dr. Sherif Emil is the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation Chair in Pediatric Surgical Education and Patient and Family-Centered Care in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where he also serves as associate chair for education in the Department of Pediatric Surgery. Since 2008, Dr. Emil has served as the director of the Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery at The Montreal Children’s Hospital. He is the founding director of Canada’s first multidisciplinary Chest Wall Anomalies Center at the Shriners Hospital for Children, Canada, and is the pediatric surgery specialty consultant for Mercy Ships International. Dr. Emil served as the founding chair of the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS) from 2018 to 2023. 

Dr. Emil was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in several developing countries, where his parents practiced as physicians. He earned his medical degree from McGill University, and his surgical residency at Loma Linda University in California. After completing his pediatric surgery fellowship at McGill, he returned to California in 2001 to join the surgical faculty at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he led the Division of Pediatric Surgery from 2005 to 2008. 

Dr. Emil has published more than 150 articles and chapters on pediatric surgery. In 2020, he published Clinical Pediatric Surgery: A Case-Based Interactive Approach. In 2012, Dr. Emil was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Governor General of Canada for his service to children around the world and his academic accomplishments in pediatric surgery. In 2023, he was awarded the Montreal Children’s Hospital Award of Excellence in Leadership, an award presented approximately once every decade to an exceptional leader.