PNHP

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.

Claudia M. Fegan, MD, CHCQM, FACP

Claudia M. Fegan, MD, CHCQM, FACP

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Claudia Fegan is chief medical officer of Cook County Health, where she provides executive oversight for the health system’s medical practices and health policy initiatives. Dr. Fegan also serves as national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, where she has appeared on national television and radio programs on behalf of the organization, and has testified before congressional committees on a wide range of health care issues. She has lectured extensively to both medical and community audiences on health care reform in the U.S. and Canada, and is a co-author of the book “Universal Healthcare: What the United States can Learn From the Canadian Experience” and a contributor to “10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care.”

Dr. Fegan is a past president and board member of the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. In 2017, she received the Paul Cornely Award from the American Public Health Association, and in 2023 Becker’s Health Care named her one of 149 Black Health Leaders to Know. 

Dr. Fegan received her undergraduate degree from Fisk University and her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She is a diplomate of both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians.

Susan Rogers, MD, FACP

Susan Rogers, MD, FACP

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Susan Rogers, immediate past president of PNHP, is recently retired from Stroger Hospital of Cook County, where she now serves as a volunteer attending hospitalist and internist. While at Stroger Hospital, she was co-director of medical student programs for the Department of Medicine and received numerous teaching awards. She is an assistant professor of medicine at Rush University, where she serves on the Committee of Admissions. 

Dr. Rogers received her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed her residency at Cook County Hospital, where she served an additional year as Chief Resident. She previously was medical director of the Near North Health Service Corp, a FQHC in Chicago. Dr. Rogers is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the National Medical Association. A longtime advocate of health care justice and racial equity, Dr. Rogers has testified before Congress and spoken to both medical and community audiences around the country.

Oliver T. Fein, MD, FACP

Oliver T. Fein, MD, FACP

Internal Medicine

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Dr. Oliver Fein is a professor of clinical medicine-emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical College,
where he is co-director of the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium. He recently retired from
clinical practice and as associate dean responsible for the Office of Affiliations and the Office of
Global Health Education.

Dr. Fein is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and board chair of PNHP’s New York Metro Chapter. He is a past vice president of the American Public Health Association, where he served for four years on the executive board.

Much of Dr. Fein’s work has focused on health system delivery reform and access to care for
vulnerable populations. His writings include a chapter in the book “10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care”; an article on ethical issues and global health in Academic Medicine; an editorial in Medical Care; and an article on U.S. health care reform and the presidential candidates in the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.

Dr. Fein received his medical degree from Western Reserve University, and completed
his internship at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and his residency at Lincoln Hospital
in the Bronx. He then became director of general medicine outpatient services at the
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and subsequently acting-director of the division of
general medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Fein was a Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellow in 1993-1994, where he worked as a legislative assistant for the Senate Democratic Majority Leader.

Dr. Fein received the Haven Emerson Award from the Public Health Association of New York
City in 2001; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy
Fellowship Program in 2008; the David Calkins Award for Health Policy Advocacy from the
Society of General Internal Medicine; and the Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished
Service from the American Public Health Association in 2021.

Walter H. Tsou, MD, MPH

Walter H. Tsou, MD, MPH

Internal Medicine, Public Health

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Dr. Walter Tsou is a past president of the American Public Health Association and former health commissioner of Philadelphia. He is a founding member of the National Board of Public Health Examiners and a board adviser to Physicians for a National Health Program. An expert on health reform and health care financing, he frequently briefs members of Congress on health care issues.

Dr. Tsou is a contributing editor of Physician’s News Digest and Pennsylvania Medicine. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Public Health Recognition Award from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Leadership Award from the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council, and the Broad Street Pump Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility. He was named Practitioner of the Year by the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 2001.

Dr. Tsou received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He holds an honorary doctorate in medical sciences from Drexel University.