Past Events
Wed., June 18, 2008 • 7:30 pm
PNHP Membership Meeting & Board Elections
VIDEO: Health, Money, and Fear
A video by Paul Hochfeld, M.D.
COMMITTEE UPDATES AND SPECIAL ON-THE-SPOT
OUTREACH PROJECT:
Updates from Chapter committees. Also, please
bring your address books for an on-the-spot outreach effort using the
PNHP “Open Letter to Candidates on Single Payer Health Reform.”
Board ELECTIONS for 2008-2009 Board of Directors of PNHP-NY Metro
Board Nominees' bios and statements
Only paid-up national PNHP members can vote
(you may join or renew at the door).
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Wed., May 28, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Annual Joanne Lukomnik Forum
Beyond Single Payer:
The Patient Centered Medical Home and Women’s Health Needs
Linda Prine, MD
Family Physician, member of PNHP since 1989
Lois Uttley, MPP
Director, The MergerWatch Project
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
THURS., May 1, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Health Care Reform in NYS: What Are the Options?
Richard Gottfried
Chair, Health Committee, NYS Assembly
Elisabeth Benjamin, M.S.P.H., J.D.
Director, Health Care Restructuring Initiative,
Community Service Society
commentator: Mary O’Brien, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University;
Chair, Media-Communications Committee, Physicians for a National Health
Program NY-Metro Chapter
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Mar. 26, 2008 • 7:30 pm
SiCKO in our Backyard: Managed Care Abuses in New York City
What leads a hospital CEO to bring a RICO suit against private health insurance companies: Thousands of small frauds, massive violations of public health law!
David Rosen, MPA
President and CEO of MediSys Health Network,
Inc. - Jamaica, Flushing and Brookdale University Hospital Centers
commentator: Oliver T. Fein, MD
Chair, PNHP, NY Metro Chapter
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Feb. 27, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Getting Loud for Single Payer during the Election:
The California Experience and PNHP Proposals
Don Bechler
Chair, California Universal Healthcare Organizing
Project
Dr. Claudia Fegan
Past President, Physicians for a National Health
Program and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Cook County Bureau of Health
Services
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Jan. 23, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Paying for Health Care Reform:
Single-Payer vs Democratic Candidates’ Plans
LEONARD RODBERG, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department
at Queens College/CUNY; Director, Infoshare Community Data Service; Treasurer
and Research Director, NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National
Health Program
THEODORE R. MARMOR, Ph.D
Yale University Professor of Public Policy,
School of Management and Department of Political Science (ret.); books
include The Politics of Medicare (1973, 2000)
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Nov. 28, 2007 • 7:30 pm
HIGH ANXIETY:
Why Having Private Health Insurance
Doesn't Mean You Are Really Covered
A presentation of the Consumer Reports May 2007 Survey “Are You Really Covered?” — which found that 4 in 10 Americans can’t depend on their health insurance
NANCY METCALF
Senior Project Editor, Consumer Reports
discussant:
SHOSHANNA SOFAER, PH.D.
Robert R. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors:AMSA-Region II, Avery Institute for Social Change, New Yorkers
for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for
All Campaign, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Oct. 24, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Medical Student Activist
Reforming Healthcare Through Student Action
C. Rory Goodwin
National President,
Student National Medical Association (SNMA); M.D./Ph.D. candidate, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Flavio Casoy
Third year medical student, Brown University Medical
School; AMSA Jack Rutledge Fellow for Universal Healthcare and Elimination
of Healthcare Disparities
David Marcus
Third year medical student, SUNY Downstate College
of Medicine Chief Clinical Officer, Brooklyn Free Clinic; Board Member
of Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
Joy Gibson
M.D./Ph.D candidate, Albert Einstein College
of Medicine
Project Director for Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO)
FORUM CO-CHAIRS: Dr. Oliver Fein, Chair, PNHP-NY Metro
Chapter,
and Ayana Jordan, Fourth year MD/PhD student Albert Einstein
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors:AMSA-Region II, Avery Institute for Social Change, New Yorkers
for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for
All Campaign, Public Health Association NYC, Queens College Urban Studies
Department, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Sept. 26, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Get Active for Single-Payer (H.R. 676)
PNHP National Campaign update and how to
influence the Presidential Election
Quentin Young, MD
National Coordinator, Physicians for a National
Health Program
Recently named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 most
powerful people in healthcare
Todd Main
National Campaign Director, Physicians for a
National Health Program
Eric Sawyer
Founding member of ACT UP NY
Special appearances by Joanne Landy and Jay Kallio for a mock “birddogging session”
* Special reception in honor of Dr. Young *
6:30 p.m. • Conference Room 1, 2nd Fl. • $15
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors:Avery Institute for Social Change, New Yorkers for National
Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign,
Queens College Urban Studies Department, We Be Illin’
Admission to Forum is Free
TAKE ACTION FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!
Come to a Town Hall Meeting on July 17th in
New York City
Learn the facts about national health care and how you can get involved.
Brief presentations by sponsoring organizations
followed by strategy discussion with all participants.
- Contact your Senators and Congressmen.
- Outreach to the community, friends, family and colleagues.
- Learn about how to "Birddog" political candidates to push them on their health care proposals.
- Work on a state and local level for national health care.
- Write letters to the editor.
Please come to this important meeting. You can make a difference!
Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: St. Bartholomew's Chapel (50th Street and Park
Ave. in Manhattan)
Sponsored by: Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition Sponsors: Physicians for a National Health Program — NY Metro Chapter; NYC Chapter, Healthcare-NOW!; New York State Nurses Association Co-sponsors: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP); American Medical Student Association (Region 2); Brecht Forum; Children Rise Foundation; New York City Region, Green Party of New York State; Housing Works; Long Island Coalition for a National Health Plan; Progressive Democrats of America; Student National Medical Association (Region IX); We be Illin’ (list in formation)
Tues., June 12, 2007 • 7:30 pm
PNHP Membership Meeting & Board Elections
A G E N D A H I G H L I G H T S
VIDEO: California OneCare
a terrific 21-minute video dramatizing the need for single payer health insurance
SPECIAL CANADA UPDATE from Martha Livingston, PhD and Carol Schneebaum, MD reporting on the May conference in Saskatchewan “S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward. Building on Tommy Douglas’ Vision of Medicare”
ELECTIONS for 2007-2008 Board of Directors of PNHP-NY Metro
All welcome. Only paid-up national PNHP members can vote (you may join or renew at the door).
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Wed., May 16, 2007 • 7:30 pm
The Role of Health Care Reform in the Elimination of Health Care Disparities
Dr. Satcher was unable to attend, due to weather
conditions which made flying into New York impossible. The program was
not canceled, however. There were impressive reports from students at
Cornell, Einstein and Downstate on ways in which the issues of disaparities
and health care reform were being addressed on their respective campuses.
Dr. Satcher has promised to come at a future date.
David Satcher, MD, PhD
Dr. David Satcher completed his four-year
term as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States in February 2002.
He also served as Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department
of Health and Human Services from February 1998 to January 2001. Dr.
Satcher is Director of the Center of Excellence on Health Disparities
at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia. He occupies
the Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health at MSM. From December
2004 to July 2006, Dr. Satcher served as the President of the Morehouse
School of Medicine.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
1300 York Avenue at 69th Street
Weill Auditorium, Second Floor
Manhattan
ADMISSION FREE · RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED
BUT TO ASSURE A PLACE LET US KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND
co-sponsors: Avery Institute for Social Change, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, American Medical Student Association-Region 2, Public Health Association of New York City, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department
Tues., May 1, 2007
6:30 pm registration & refreshments
7:30 pm presentations
Getting Our Professional Organizations
To Endorse
a Single-payer
Universal
Health Insurance Program
Lawrence Faltz, M.D., who has worked to get the NY State Chapter of the
American College of Physicians to endorse a single-payer system
Mary J. Finnin, M.S., R.N., who has worked with the New York and American
Nursing Associations to support a single-payer program
Ayana Jordan, an M.D./Ph.D. student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
who has worked to introduce the issue of single-payer into the Einstein
curriculum and with the Student National Medical Association
Peter Barland, M.D., who has worked with Ayana Jordan
on curriculum change at Einstein
Moderator: Carol Schneebaum, MD
Scarsdale Public Library
54 Olmsted Road in Scarsdale
Tues., Apr. 24, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Acting Up for Single Payer Universal Health Care
John Riley
AIDS activist and a member of ACT UP (ACT UP,
the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) since 1992; part of a collective that
hosts the radio show “Out-FM” on WBAI 99.5 FM
JOANNE LANDY, MPH
Executive Director, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter;
arrested for civil disobedience in ACT UP’s 3/29 Wall Street Health Care
Protest
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by
Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: Avery Institute for Social Change, Metro NY Health Care for
All Campaign, Student National Medical Assn (Reg. IX), American Medical
Student Assn (Reg. 2), NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, New Yorkers for National
Health Care, Queens College Urban Studies Dept.
Tues., Mar. 27, 2007 • 7:30 pm
The Medicare Middleman Multiplication Act:
What’s Next for Medicare?
Robert M. Hayes
President, Medicare Rights Center
Laura Boylan, MD
Board Member, PNHP NY Metro Chapter
Assistant Professor of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine
Neurologist, Bellevue Hospital Center
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Avery Institute for Social Change, Student National Medical Association (Region IX), Queens College Urban Studies Department, New Yorkers for National Health Care, American Medical Student Association (Region 2), NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, and Public Health Association of New York City
Feb. 27 , 2007 (Tues.) • 7:30 pm
Clearing the Fog:
Seeing Through the New
“Universal” Health Care Proposals
LEONARD RODBERG, PHD
Research Director, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter; Associate
Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department, Queens College-CUNY
MARK HANNAY
Director, Metro New York Health Care for All
Campaign
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Avery Institute for Social Change, Student National Medical Association (Region IX), American Medical Student Association (Region 2), NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department, New Yorkers for National Health Care, and Public Health Association of New York City
Jan. 30, 2007 (Tues.) • 7:30 pm
THE ROLE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
IN IMPROVING THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH:
The Need for Single Payer National Health Insurance
Lewis Goldfrank, MD
Chairman and Professor, Department of Emergency
Medicine, New York University
Director of Emergency Medicine, Bellevue Hospital
Medical Director, New York City Poison Center
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
co-sponsors: NY Metro Health Care for All Campaign; Avery Institute for Social Change; NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now; Public Health Association of New York City; Student National Medical Association (Region IX); American Medical Student Association (Region 2); Queens College Urban Studies Department, New Yorkers for National Health Care
Nov. 29 , 2006 (Wed.) • 7:30
pm
AFTER
THE ELECTIONS:
THE FUTURE OF MEDICARE
The Politics of Universal Health Care
U.S. Rep. John Conyers
(photo by Sarah Miller)
Hon. John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member, U.S. House
of Representatives Judiciary Committee
Rosanne
M. Leipzig, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice
Chair for Education, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics
and Adult Development;
Mount Sinai School of Medicine;
Deputy Editor, Geriatric Medicine (4th Edition)
Judson
Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
(accessible entrance:
243 Thompson Street)
take A, B, C, D, E, F, V trains to “West 4th St.”
R train to “8th St.” • 1 train to “Christopher St.”
RESERVATIONS
NOT REQUIRED,
BUT RSVP TO ASSURE A SPACE:
pnhpnyc@igc.org or 212-666-4001
Oct. 25, 2006 (Wed.) • 7:30
p.m.
SEVENTH ANNUAL FORUM ON MEDICAL
STUDENT ACTIVISM
• Challenges and Successes in Organizing Medical Students
Today
• How Do Free Clinics and Community Service Relate to the
Movement
for Universal Health Care?
Click here to see photos from this event.
CASSANDRA BARNETTE DONNELLY
Political Action
Liaison - Region IX, Student National Medical Association (SNMA) 3rd Year
Medical Student, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School
of Osteopathic Medicine
JAY BHATT
President, American Medical Student Association
(AMSA); Currently taking time off from his 4th year at the Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) to work with AMSA
LARA BISHAY
2nd-year
medical student at NYU working with NYU’s New York City Free Clinic as
volunteer, fundraiser, and recruiter of physician volunteers
DAVID MARCUS
Member, Board of Directors, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter;
Second Year Medical Student, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine;
Secretary, SUNY Downstate Medical Student Council Co-
Chairs: Ayana
Jordan, 4th year MD-PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine; Member, Board of Directors, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter
Oliver Fein, MD, Chair,
PNHP-NY Metro Chapter
Beth Israel
Medical Center Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East
Second
Floor Lecture Hall (between 14th and 15th Streets) Manhattan
Sept. 27, 2006 (Wed.)
• 7:30 p.m.
Politics, the Elections and
National Health Insurance
Theodore R. Marmor, PHD
Yale University Professor of Public Policy, School
of Management; Professor, Department of Political Science; Adjunct Professor
of Law; Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation post-doctoral program in
health policy. Books include The Politics of Medicare
STANLEY ARONOWITZ, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center; University
wide officer, Professional Staff Congress (AFT), the union of faculty
and staff at CUNY. Books include Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets),
Manhattan