Physicians for a Democratic Majority Leaders

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  Andy Calman

  Founder and National Chair  primary contact
  acalman@aol.com
  415-648-3600 (office)
  3201 Mission St   San Francisco, California  94110
  
  Dr. Andy Calman, the founder of Physicians for a Democratic Majority, is an ophthalmologist in San Francisco on the faculty at UCSF. Andy was one of the national leaders of Doctors for Dean, and campaigned for Gov. Dean in Iowa, New Hampshire and California, where he was the local Field Director. Andy also worked as a debate briefer for Ted Kennedy's presidential campaign while in college, served as healthcare policy advisor for Congressional candidate Ro Khanna, and is active in the Democratic Party Central Committee, as well as holding several leadership positions in organized medicine. He recently authored the resolution that successfully reversed the AMA's policy on Medicare drug price negotiation.
  

• Dr. Jeff Berman

  Advisory Board
  
  Dr. Jeff Berman is a longtime Democratic Party activist, staunch supporter of the DNC, DCCC, DSCC and Florida state and local Democratic politics. His expertise is in the areas of Medicare and Medicaid reform. He has served on the Florida Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee for 15 years, and was healthpolicy advisor to PA Gov.Ed Rendell. He was on the National Steering Committee of Doctors for Kerry, and Florida Outreach Coordinator for Doctors for Obama. He is healthpolicy coordinator for Physicians for Democratic Majority. Dr. Berman is a specialist in Pulmonary Medicine, and on the voluntary faculty of U of Miami School of Medicine
  

• Dr. Larry Brilliant

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  Dr. Larry Brilliant, physician and epidemiologist, one of the leaders of the World Health Organization's successful smallpox eradication program in South Asia, supervising a staff of over 100,000. He and his wife Girija later founded the Seva Foundation, whose projects in Asia have surigcally given back sight to over 2 million people who were blind from needless blindness. Dr. Brilliant was one of the physicians to the Grateful Dead, he delivered a baby on Alcatraz during the Native American occupation in the 1970's, and has founded many high-tech companies.
  

• Dr. Don Goldmacher

  Advisory Board
  
  Dr. Don Goldmacher serves as media consultant to Physicians for a Democratic Majority. A retired physician, Don works as a documentary filmmaker. His first film was "Do No Harm," an expose of the pharmaceutical industry. Don has also been active in the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
  
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  Dr. Kevin Grumbach

  Advisory Board
  
  Dr. Kevin Grumbach, one of the nation's foremost medical policy scholars and universal healthcare advocates, is Chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. A graduate of Harvard College and UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Grumbach writes extensively on healthcare policy and is Research Director for the Pew Commission.
  

• Gerald and Kathleen Hill

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  Jerry and Kathleen Hill are practically institutions in California Democratic politics, dating back to the 1960's when Kathleen served in the Kennedy White House and Jerry helped start Eugene McCarthy's campaign to unseat Lyndon Johnson. Jerry and Kathleen were co-directors of Gov. Howard Dean's Northern California grassroots campaign. They have authored many books and teach the politics of healthcare at Sonoma State University and the University of British Columbia.
  
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  Dr. Philip R. Lee

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  Dr. Philip Lee, former Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco and founder of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, is one of the nation's foremost health policy scholars. Dr. Lee was Assistant Secretary for Health in both the Johnson and Clinton Administrations, served as an official in the Agency for International Development, chaired the Task Force on Prescription Drugs and the Physicians Payment Review Commission, and established the National Center for Health Services Research. Dr. Lee teaches healthcare policy and human biology at UCSF and Stanford.
  

• Peter Van Vranken

  Policy Director
  
  Peter Van Vranken was Gov. Howard Dean's chief healthcare policy advisor, both in office and during his Presidential campaign, where he coordinated 200 volunteer health policy advisors. Peter also coordinated health policy for the Democratic Governors Association. He now consults for the Kerry campaign. When not on the road, he lives in Vermont.