Special Guests

Featured speakers at the National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice include:

David Satcher

David Satcher, MD, PhD, FAAFP, FACPM, FACP—16th Surgeon General of the United States; Current Director, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. Satcher served simultaneously in the positions of Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health from February 1998 through January 2001 at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In June 2006, Dr. Satcher established the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) of Morehouse School of Medicine as a natural extension of his experience in improving public health policy for all Americans and his commitment to eliminating health disparities for minorities, the poor and other disadvantaged groups.
C. Everett Koop, MD: 13th Surgeon General of the U.S

As Surgeon General, Dr. Koop proved to be an outspoken advocate on public health issues. Dr. Koop vigorously attacked the issue of tobacco use, calling for “A Smoke-Free Society by the Year 2000.” In addition, as the Nation began to recognize AIDS as a new and deadly disease, Koop eventually became the chief Federal spokesperson on AIDS. He resigned as Surgeon General on
October 1, 1989, but continues to educate the public about health issues through his writing and the electronic media. Dr. Koop also serves as Senior Scholar of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth University and is chair or a member of various boards of health-related groups.

 Dr. Koop
John Rich

John Rich, MD—Professor; Chair, Department of Health Management and Policy, Drexel University

John Rich is a physician, scholar, and a leader in addressing the health care needs of one of the nation’s most ignored and underserved populations—African-American men in urban settings. By linking economic health, mental health, and educational and employment opportunities to physical well-being, Rich’s work on black men’s health is influencing policy discussions and health practice throughout the United States. Dr. Rich is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS—17th Surgeon General of the United States; Vice Chairman,Canyon Ranch; President, Canyon Ranch Institute; Distinguished Professor, Zuckerman College of PublicHealth, University of Arizona

Dr. Carmona served as the 17th Surgeon General of the United States between 2002 and 2006. An outspoken critic of second-hand smoke, Dr. Carmona testified before Congress that all tobacco products should be banned. He is now the vice chairman of the Canyon Ranch resort and spa company, president of the non-profit Canyon Ranch Institute, and a professor at the Mel and
Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. In addition, he serves as the health and wellness chairman for the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance Steering Committee. Dr. Carmona has published extensively and received numerous awards and decorations, as well as local and national recognition for his achievements.

 Richard Carmona
Kitty Ernst

Kitty Ernst, CNM, MPH—Certified Nurse-Midwife and Current President of the American College of Nurse Midwifery

For over 40 years Kitty Ernst has pioneered the field of midwifery. Ms. Ernst was one of the first presidents of the American College of Nurse Midwives, a role which she has recently taken on again. As a practitioner, she served families in capacities including public health nurse-midwife and director of the nurse-midwifery service and education program at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. In addition to creating opportunities that improve options and access to health care, and
increasing access to midwifery education, Kitty has been a tremendous role model to thousands of students.

H. Jack Geiger, M.D., M. Sci. Hyg., Sc.D. (hon.)—Arthur C. Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at the City University of New York Medical School

Most of Dr. Geiger’s career has been devoted to health disparities, poverty and human rights. He initiated the community health center model in the U.S., combining community-oriented primary care, public health interventions, civil rights and community development initiatives, and was a leader in the development of the national health center network of more than 900 urban, rural and migrant centers currently serving some 14 million low-income patients. Dr. Geiger is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, and is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Human Rights, which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.

 Jack Geiger

Dr. Warne

Donald Warne, MD, MPH—Clinical Professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor
College of Law
Dr. Warne teaches American Indian Health Policy and is assisting in the development of the American Indian Policy and Leadership Development Center at Arizona State University. He is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men. He received his MD from Stanford University in 1995 and his Master of Public Health from Harvard University with a concentration in health policy in 2002. Dr. Warne is a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), and he is a Diplomate of both the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Medical Acupuncture.

Gloria Wilder, MD, MPH—President and CEO, CORE Health, Washington, DC

Gloria WilderBrathwaite is the President and CEO, CORE Health, Washington, DC. Raised by a single mother in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood, Dr. Gloria Wilder grew up much like the children she treats today. These memories fueled her motivation to become a doctor. Initially thought to be autistic, Wilder was, in fact, a gifted student. After graduating from the New York City public school system, she received a scholarship to Howard University. She then earned her master’s degree in public health from George Washington University and her doctor of medicine degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Dr Wilder

Lawrence Brown, PhD—Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Mailman School of Public
Health at Columbia University
Dr. Brown is the author of Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (Brookings Institution, 1983) and of many articles on the political dimensions of community cost containment, expansion of coverage for the uninsured, national health reform, the role of analysis in the formation of health policy, and cross-national health policy. Dr. Brown edited the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law for five years and received a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in 2004.

 

 

 

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