Healthcare Leaders for Democracy
Healthcare Leaders for Democracy is a volunteer-led initiative of healthcare professionals in support of Movement Voter PAC. When we elect the right leaders — and hold them accountable to pass robust social, economic, and healthcare policies — we will gain the health outcomes we need and deserve. Learn more • Donate
Public Co-Sponsors
Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
Kirk Adams, Executive Director, Healthcare Education Project
Stuart Altman, PhD, Chaikin Professor of National and State Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Alistair Bell, MD, MBA, President and CEO, Boston Medical Center Health System
Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and TH Chan School of Public Health, former Chief Medical Officer, Ariadne Labs; former SVP Baystate Health
Don Berwick, MD, Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Former President/CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Akriti Bhambi, EdM, Vice President, SKDK and Former Director of Health Equity, Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
Aliya Bhatia, MPP, Executive Director, Vot-ER, a nonpartisan organization focused on healthcare-based voter registration
Heather Booth, Partner and Consultant, Democracy Partners
Jeanette Clough, MS, MHA, RN, former CEO, Mount Auburn Hospital and Principal, Clough Consulting Group
Andrew Dreyfus, Former President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A Knox Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University
Norbert Goldfield, MD, Executive Director, Ask Nurses and Doctors
Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Clinical Associate Professor, Co-executive Director, National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, Former President & CEO of Partners (Mass General Brigham) HealthCare and Former CEO of Partners in Health
Charles Homer, MD, Founder, National Institute of Children’s Health Quality and Obama Appointee, Department of Health and Human Services
Lucian Leape, MD, Patient Safety Champion and a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Care in America Committee which published “To Err is Human” (1999) and “Crossing the Quality Chasm” (2001).
Stanley Lewis, MD, Former Chief Strategy Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health
David Longworth, MD, Former President, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and Chair, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care
Alister Martin, MD, MPP, Founder, Vot-ER
Thomas Newman, MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Pediatrics
Laura Packard, founder of Health Care Voices and Voices of Health Care Action
Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, Deputy Chair, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor, Harvard Medical School
Sandhya Rao, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Christine Schuster, RN, MBA, President & CEO, Emerson Health System
Derri Shtasel, MD, MPH, Former Associate Chief and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Public and Community Psychiatry
Peter Slavin, MD, Former President, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kevin Tabb, MD, President & CEO, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Rachel Wilson, MHA, President, CIC Health
Louis J. Woolf, MBA, President & CEO, Hebrew SeniorLife
Chris Adams, MD
Mona Al-Amin, PhD, MPH, Chair and Associate Professor, Healthcare Administration and Director of the Healthcare Administration Program, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
Diane Anderson, RN, MS, Former CEO, Lawrence General Hospital
Katherine Atkinson, MD, FAAFP, Medical Director, Atkinson Family Practice
Kevin M. Ban, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Walgreens
Maureen Banks, RN, DNP, MBA, NEA-BC, FACHE, Former Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Lisa Bard Levine, MD, MBA, Strategic Advisor and Former CEO, The MAVEN Project; COO, Easy CV; Founder, LBL Innovations
Linda Battaglini, MS, Former Governance Development Advisor and Principal, Battaglini Consulting; Past President, NE Society for Healthcare Strategy
Joni R. Beshansky, RN, MPH, LP.D., Director, Master of Healthcare Administration and Associate Professor, Boston College
Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Winfield S. Brown, MHA , MSB, FACHE, President & CEO Heywood Healthcare
Stuart Burstin MD, PhD, FACP, FCPP, Interim National Director of Infectious Diseases, Aids Healthcare Foundation
Edward Butler, MD, Former CMO and Chief Academic Officer, Hallmark Health System
Jayson C. Carr, MD, Regional Medical Director, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Joe Castellana, Ph.D, MBA, Former Vice President, Medical Administration, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network/Mass General Brigham
John Christoforo, LFACHE, MBA, Principal, Christoforo Healthcare Consulting and Former President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare
Marta Corvelo, CEO, Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services
Mindy Crowley, PHD, Clinical Psychologist
Steve Defossez, MD, Vice President, Clinical Integration, Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association and Principal, DefoSays Consulting
Charles Donahue, MD, Vice President, Clinical Integration, Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association and Principal, DefoSays Consulting
Michael Durkin, Former President and CEO, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack
Valley
James Fallon, MBA, Former Senior Vice President, Hallmark Health and COO, Lawrence Memorial
Hospital
Robert R. Fanning, Former President & CEO of Northeast Health System
Christine Ferguson, Principal, Leverage
Richard Fernandez, President, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton
Maureen Flannery, MD, MPH, Family Physician (Retired)
Lachlan Forrow, Senior Fellow Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Laura Garelick, MD; Chief, Family Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham
Matthew C. Germak, MD, MPH, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary
Care
Elise Gettings, RN, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jay Gold, MD, JD, MPH, Retired
Sally Goodwin, MD
Richard H. Gregg, MA, MBA, Distinguished Instructor of Healthcare Administration, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
Susan Haas, M.D., M.Sc, Former Chief ObGyn, Atrius Health and MITRE Corporation
Brent L. Henry, Member, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
Ellen Israel, RN, CNM, MPF, Formerly with MassCare/Medicare for All for Massachusetts
Jamie Katz, JD, General Counsel, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Paul Lipke, Former Senior Advisor for Health Care without Harm
Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief Academic Officer,
Hebrew SeniorLife; Chief, Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pauline Lodge, MS, Former Senior Vice President Strategic Planning and Business Development,
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Saranya Loehrer, Founder, C3 Collaboratives and Co-Founder, Civic Health Alliance
Pam MacEwan, Former CEO Washington Health Benefit
Amy MacNulty, Former President, MacNulty Consulting, LLC and Senior Principal, Noblis Health
Innovation
Marsha Maurer, RN, Healthcare and Nursing Leader, Former Senior VP, Patient Care Services and
CNO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Paul Hart Miller, Administrative Director, Network Operations, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center
Melissa Monahan, Chief of Staff, President and CEO’s Office, Boston Medical Center Health
System
Karen Moore, RN, MS, FACHE, Principal, Karen Moore Consulting and Former Sr VP
Operations/CNO Lawrence General Hospital
Suzanne O’Connor, MSN, Advanced Practice Nurse, Founder and Principal, Healthcare Satisfaction Consulting, Former Clinical Nurse Specialist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Helen Osborne, M.Ed., OTR, President, Health Literacy Consulting
Richard Parker, MD, Hospice Physician, Care Dimensions and Former Chief Medical Officer, Arcadia Healthcare Solutions
Russell Phillips, MD, Director, Center for Primary Care and William Applebaum Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Evy Picker, MD, Internist and Former Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Ploof, Regional Director of Physician Relations, CareOne Management
Rachel Pohl, Strategy Advisor, Pohl Consulting
Ronald Pollack, Chair Emeritus of Families USA
Amit Powar, MD, President, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Medical Group
Tim Quigley, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, Senior Vice President, Special Projects, South Shore Hospital
Jim Recht, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program
Barbara Roberge, PhD, GNP, Former lead NP and Director of Quality, Massachusetts General Hospital, Senior Health Practice
Julie Rosen, Principal and Leader, Not for Profit Practice, WittKieffer
Robert Schreiber, MD, AGSF, Vice President and National Medical Director, myPlace Health
Roger Schutt, DO, Post Acute Medical Director, Beth Israel Lahey Health Performance Network and Medical Director, Extended Care Community Program, Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare
Janet Selcer, Coordinator, MVP Volunteer Eastern MA Hub
Lillian Shirley, Former Public Health Director State of Oregon and Past President of National Association of City and County Health Directors
Lisa Simpson, (Retiring) Executive Director of AcademyHealth
Christopher Stewart, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Fransico
Bill Walczak, Former CEO, Codman Square Health Center, South End Community Health; Carney Hospital
Joel Weissman, Professor of Surgery (Health Policy) Harvard Medical School, Former Senior Health Policy Advisor, Massachusetts Executive Office of Human Services
Geoffrey Wilkinson, Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Social Work
Ashley Yeats, MD, Vice President, Medical Operations, BCBSMA and Former CMO Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton
Jeff Zegas, CEO and Founder ZurickDavis, Inc.