Dr. Don McCanne is a retired family physician in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and serves as senior health policy fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program. He is also a past president of PNHP.

For decades, Dr. McCanne allotted half of his practice hours to indigent patients, and he was cited by the San Clement City Council as being “outspoken, especially when it involves the elderly and underprivileged, because he believes that the ability to pay should not be the major criterion for receiving healthcare.” Dr. McCanne is a tireless supporter of single-payer and has spoken and written extensively on the uninsured, health care costs, and health care policy. He authors a popular health policy “Quote of the Day.”

Dr. Kevin Grumbach is professor and chair of the department of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He is co-director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care and co-director of the Community Engagement and Health Policy Program for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He practices family medicine at the Family Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital.

Dr. Grumbach is the co-author, with Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer, of “Understanding Health Policy – A Clinical Approach,” now in its sixth edition, and “Improving Primary Care: Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice.” He has written or contributed to over 100 articles in the medical literature. He has served as an advisor to congressional committees and government agencies on primary care and health reform. Dr. Grumbach was a co-founder of the California Physicians’ Alliance, which merged with Physicians for a National Health Program in 1993 to become the California chapter of PNHP.

Dr. John Geyman is professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he served as chairman of the department of family medicine from 1976 to 1990. A family physician with over 25 years in academic medicine, he has also practiced in rural communities for 13 years.

He was the founding editor of the Journal of Family Practice from 1973 to 1990 and the editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice from 1990 to 2003. His most recent books include “Breaking Point: How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans” and “Hijacked: the Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform.”

Dr. Geyman is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Dr. Josh Freeman is the Alice M. Patterson, MD, and Harold L. Patterson, MD Professor and Chair of the department of family medicine and chief of family medicine at the University of Kansas Hospital. He serves nationally as a member of the board of trustees of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is assistant editor of the journal Family Medicine and is on the board of Southwest Boulevard Family Care.

Dr. Freeman is a co-faculty advisor for the JayDoc Student-run Free Clinic, and for the Community Leadership track longitudinal elective. He served as chair of the Steering Committee for Curricular Change (2003-05), and is an elected member of the executive committee of the Faculty Council. He was a Fulbright Scholar in São Paulo, Brazil in 2003, and consults there frequently on the establishment of family medicine in that country.

In 2007-08, Dr. Freeman completed the joint American Council on Education fellowship to train leaders in higher education and the STFM Foundation Bishop Fellowship. His host institution was the University of New Mexico, where his mentor was Paul Roth, MD, dean of the medical school and Executive Vice President for Health Sciences. He received STFM’s highest honor, the Recognition Award, in 2006. He served nationally as secretary/treasurer for STFM in 2012.