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Hank Abrons, MD MPH – Berkeley, CA
Dr. Abrons is the Board President of PNHP California and a member of the PNHP national Board. He is a retired pulmonary and critical care specialist who has worked in New York City, Chicago, West Virginia, and Oakland. His interests include critical care, chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis, medical ethics, and the reform of health care.

Richard Quint, MD MPH – Berkeley, CA
Dr. Quint is an Emeritus Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Francisco Medical School. He is the former director of the UCSF Pediatrics Rehabilitation and Meningomyelocele Programs and he practiced primary care pediatrics in Oakland prior to joining the UCSF faculty in 1987. Dr. Quint is on the Board of Directors of PNHP California.

Marc Sapir, MD MPH – Berkeley, CA
Dr. Sapir is a semi-retired primary care doc and long time member of PNHP. Marc has a background in team-based care for community dwelling disabled elders, as well as public and non-profit sector clinical medicine. Marc particularly focuses his talks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assertion of health care as a human and civil right.

Li-Hsia Wang, MD – Berkeley, CA
Dr. Wang is a retired general pediatrician with experience in both urban and rural settings and with public and private care. She is also active with the League of Women Voters.

Aaron Roland, MD – Burlingame, CA
Dr. Aaron Roland is a family practitioner in private practice in Burlingame, California. His experience with the bureaucracy of the private health insurance system has driven him to activism on behalf of real change.

Claudia Chaufan, MD PhD – San Francisco, CA – Spanish Speaker
Dr. Chaufan is an Argentine physician and sociologist, currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging/Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Nursing at the University of California in San Francisco. She teaches sociology of health and medicine, comparative/international health care systems, sociology of power and sociological theory. She is also the vice-president of the PNHP California.

Jim G. Kahn, MD MPH – San Francisco, Ca
Dr. Kahn is a Professor at UCSF in the Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the immediate president of Physicians for a National Health Program California. He is an expert in policy modeling in health care, cost-effectiveness analysis, and evidence-based medicine. His work focuses on the use of cost-effectiveness analysis to inform decision-making in public health and medicine.

Barrie Massie, MD – San Francisco, CA
Dr. Massie is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco and Chief of the Cardiology Division at the San Francisco VAMC. He is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and clinician in the fields of heart failure and hypertension. His Curriculum Vitae includes more than 285 peer-reviewed original publications. He is the Clinical Director of the VA Heart Failure Quality Enhancement Research Initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs. He also is a long time supporter of single-payer health insurance and reforming the current dysfunctional system.

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