ADVISORY BOARD
Marcia Angell, MD
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
Representative Jennifer Benson
Lead Sponsor, Healthcare Cost Control Bill
Patricia Downs Berger, MD
Former Co-Chair, Mass-Care
Jordan Berg-Powers
Mass Alliance
Elaine Bernard, PhD
Harvard University
Don Berwick, M.D.
President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Kathleen Bittetti
Artist Foundation
John Bonifaz
Western Massachusetts Activist
Jeff Crosby
Labor Leader for Single Payer
Linda DeBenedictis
Patients Rights Group
Carlos AF Da Silva
Immigrant Community Leader
Michael Dukakis
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Sandy Eaton, RN
Labor for Single Payer
Senator Jamie Eldridge
Lead Sponsor, Single Payer Bill
Professor Elmer Freeman
Northeastern University Community Healthcare Program
Professor Gerald Friedman
University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Economics
Representative Denise Garlick
Lead Sponsor, Single Payer bill
Peter Hiam
Former Commissioner of Insurance for Massachusetts
David Himmelstein, MD
Physicians for a National Health Care Program
Thea James, M.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
Mel King
Former President of Boston City Council
Peter Knowlton
Labor Leader for Single Payer
Susan Leslie
Unitarian Universalist Association
Bernard Lown, MD
Longtime Leader for Single Payer
Katie Murphy, RN
Mass Nurses Association
Brian O’Malley, MD
Cape Cod Single Payer Activist
Julie Pinkham, RN
Executive Director, Massachusetts Nurses Association
John Polk, MD
Associate Dean, Boston University School of Medicine
Barbara Roop, JD, PhD
Leader for Single Payer
Grace Ross
The Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending
Alan Sager, PhD
Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Debbie Socolar
Former Educator, Boston University School of Public Health
Jass Stewart
Single Payer Activist, Brockton, MA
Steven Tolman
President, AFL-CIO Massachusetts
Bill Walczak
Boston leader Single Payer
Jamie Willmuth
Labor Leader, SEIU
Rand Wilson
Labor Leader, SEIU
Daniel A. Wolf
Former State Senator
Jackie Wolf, PhD
Former Co-Chair Mass-Care
Steffie Woolhandler, MD
Physicians for a National Health Care Program
MASS-CARE OFFICERS
Co-Chairs
Benjamin Day (Eastern MA)
David Cohen (Western MA)
Secretary
Alice C. Swift
Treasurer
Judith Atkins
UHCEF OFFICERS
Chair
Ruth Smith, MD
Secretary
Sandy Eaton, R.N.
Treasurer
Patricia Downs Berger, MD