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Liz McCord, MD

Liz McCord, MD

Addiction Psychiatry

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Dr. Liz McCord is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member for the University of California-Irvine Train New Trainers Fellowship, helping health care professionals improve the delivery of addiction care in their practices. Dr. McCord’s primary clinical and scholarly focus is the treatment of addiction through an integrative approach, developed from her background in both internal medicine and psychiatry. Her articles have been published in a number of leading journals, including the Journal of ECT, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and Journal of Surgery.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Dr. McCord earned her medical degree at LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, then moved to Emory University in Atlanta where she completed her residency in internal medicine and psychiatry, served as the ambulatory chief resident for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry.

She is a proud advocate for Medicare for All and human rights.

Monica Maalouf, MD

Monica Maalouf, MD

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Monica Maalouf is a physician and associate professor of medicine at the Stritch School of Medicine and associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Loyola University Chicago. She practices primary care with a specific focus on marginalized communities and women’s health. Dr. Maalouf teaches medical students and residents about health inequities, social determinants of health, and health advocacy. She has spoken at multiple conferences and published essays regionally and nationally about health care policy.

Dr. Maalouf earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago; she completed medical school at the University of Minnesota and her residency training in internal medicine at New York University (NYU) and Bellevue Hospital. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Arabic.

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.

Samuel Dickman, MD

Samuel Dickman, MD

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Samuel Dickman is a practicing internist, abortion provider, and health policy researcher. He currently serves as the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of Montana and a research scientist for the City University of New York Research Foundation. Dr. Dickman previously worked as medical director for Primary Care at Planned Parenthood South Texas. 

Dr. Dickman conducts research on inequality in the health care system, reproductive health, and substance use, and has published findings in JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and The Lancet. Since 2017, he has served as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on U.S. Public Policy and Health. Dr. Dickman has also served as an expert witness and consultant in legal cases involving immigration, asylum, and reproductive care. His opinion pieces have been published in major news outlets such as The New York Times and The Guardian.

Dr. Dickman earned his medical degree from Harvard, and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (SF General Hospital).

Stephen B. Kemble, MD

Stephen B. Kemble, MD

Internal Medicine/Psychiatry

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Dr. Steve Kemble is recently retired from the private practice of psychiatry and continues to work as a psychiatrist embedded in a hospital-based primary care clinic serving a mostly Medicaid and uninsured population. He also teaches psychiatric aspects of general medical care to internal medicine residents as an assistant clinical professor of both Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.

Dr. Kemble is a past president of both the Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association and the Hawaii Medical Association. He has a longstanding interest in health care reform, and he was appointed to the Hawaii Health Authority in 2011, charged with overall health planning for the State of Hawaii and with designing a universal health care system covering everyone in the state. Dr. Kemble serves on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program and chairs the PNHP Policy Committee.

Dr. Kemble attended medical school at the John A. Burns School of Medicine when it was a 2-year school, and completed medical school at Harvard. He trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry.

Paul Gorman, MD, FACP, FACMI

Paul Gorman, MD, FACP, FACMI

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Paul Gorman, recently retired, is professor emeritus in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He previously served as assistant dean for rural medical education at OHSU. A fellow of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, he is board-certified in internal medicine.

Dr. Gorman completed formal training at Rush Medical College in Chicago and learned about the realities of primary care while in private practice on the Oregon coast. Over three decades at OHSU, he divided his efforts between clinical teaching, medical informatics research, and medical school curriculum. Dr. Gorman has been active in the Medicare-for-All movement, PNHP, and the Measure 23 Campaign in Oregon. He is a proud honorary member of the “Mad As Hell Doctors” group that campaigned for single-payer health care in 2009 during the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo is a professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and the associate dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, Dr. Carrasquillo earned his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Carrasquillo served as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Miami for 13 years, where he led a clinical, teaching, and research enterprise of 51 full-time faculty. He now serves as co-director of the University’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, which drives research translation into evidence-based clinical and community practices to improve the health of South Florida’s diverse population.

With more than 20 years of experience leading large NIH grants and randomized trials, Dr. Carrasquillo’s work includes research in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, HIV, cancer, and precision medicine. Dr. Carrasquillo serves as principal investigator at the Southeast Enrollment Center for the NIH’s All of Us Program, as well as the Florida Community-Engaged Research Alliance Against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities (FL-CEAL).

Dr. Carrasquillo is currently chair of the Editorial Board for the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and a board member of the Miami-Dade Area Health Education Center and the South Florida Health Council. He is a national expert in minority health, health disparities, community-based participatory research, and community health worker interventions, and is a frequent contributor to major news outlets, including Latino television networks.

Johnathon Ross, MD, MPH

Johnathon Ross, MD, MPH

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Johnathon Ross is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences and practices and teaches general internal medicine. He is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program. 

A graduate of Cornell University, Dr. Ross received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo and his master’s degree in health policy and administration from the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan.

Dr. Ross has served as a family physician in a small rural community in upstate New York as a member of the National Health Service Corps. He has been a member of the executive committee of medical staff at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, a board member of its PHO, and chairman of several committees of the hospital focused on quality improvement. 

Dr. Ross served as a member of the Ohio State Medical Board and helped establish the educational requirements and scope of practice for licensed physician assistants in Ohio. He also served as associate program director for the internal medicine residency, as medical director of the outpatient adult medicine teaching clinic, and as medical director of an HMO affiliated with Mercy Health Partners. His experience inside the health insurance industry convinced him of the need for a national health insurance program.

Peter Orris, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM

Peter Orris, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM

Internal and Occupational Medicine

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Dr. Peter Orris, a founding member of PNHP, is a professor and senior physician (former chief) of occupational and environmental medicine for the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System. He has been an attending physician in the Division of Occupational Medicine at the Stroger Hospital of Cook County for over three decades, where he practiced and taught internal and occupational medicine. Dr. Orris maintains an active clinical and teaching practice and holds professorships in internal and preventive medicine at Rush University Medical College and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His research and teaching have focused on international health care systems, occupational and community effects of toxic chemicals, and sustainable health care and climate change.

Dr. Orris has served as an adviser to many organizations, including the World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, World Medical Association, World Federation of Public Health Associations, and Health Care Without Harm.

Dr. Orris earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, his masters in public health at Yale, and his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University. He is a Fellow of the ACP and ACOEM as well as a member of AOA, and an active member of the American Public Health Association, while also serving on the Council of the Chicago Medical Society and as a delegate to the Illinois State Medical Society.

David Ansell, MD, MPH, FACP

David Ansell, MD, MPH, FACP

Internal Medicine

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Dr. David Ansell is the Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

He is an internal medicine physician, trained at Cook County Hospital in the late 1970s, where he spent 17 years holding a number of positions including chief of general medicine/primary care. After leaving County, he spent 10 years as chair of the department of internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, located in one of the highest hardship communities in Chicago. He has been particularly involved in health equity work, bringing attention to higher rates of breast cancer mortality for African-American women in Chicago. In 2007 he co-founded the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, a not-for-profit that focuses on eliminating the racial disparities in breast cancer mortality.

He is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on health disparities. In 2011 he published an acclaimed memoir based on his experiences as a doctor in Chicago, County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital. His most recent book, The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, was released by the University of Chicago Press in 2017.

Dr. Ansell is a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical University and received his Masters of Public Health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health.

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.

Andrew D. Coates, MD, FACP

Andrew D. Coates, MD, FACP

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Andy Coates is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, chief of hospital medicine at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, New York, and an assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Albany Medical College. Board certified in internal medicine as well as hospice and palliative care medicine, Dr. Coates graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Coates is a co-founder of the Capital District chapter of PNHP and founder of Single Payer New York. He previously served on the statewide executive board of the Public Employees Federation, AFL-CIO. He provides commentary on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.