Georgia

Contact Information

Georgians for a Common Sense Health Plan
Website: http://www.commonsensehealthplan.org/
E-mail: info@commonsensehealthplan.org

Media Contact

HENRY KAHN, MD
404-310-3958
hkahn@emory.edu

Dr. Kahn has practiced general internal medicine in Atlanta since 1973. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he was a resident (internal medicine) at Boston City Hospital followed by a year at Lincoln Hospital (pediatrics) in the Bronx, New York City. He came to Atlanta to serve 2 years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and has stayed there as a faculty member in the Emory University School of Medicine.

Beyond his teaching and research in chronic-disease prevention, he worked to establish the neighborhood health centers associated with Grady Memorial Hospital. He is now Professor Emeritus in Emory’s Department of Family & Preventive Medicine and on the adjunct faculty of Morehouse School of Medicine. His current day job includes research as a chronic-disease epidemiologist.

Daniel Blumenthal, MD
404.752.1624
dblumenthal@msm.edu

Dr. Blumenthal is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Charity Hospital of New Orleans (Tulane Division) and received his master of public health degree from Emory University. He is board-certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine.

He has served as a VISTA Volunteer physician in Lee County, Arkansas; as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta; as a faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine; and as a medical epidemiologist with the World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Program in India and Somalia. Since 1985, he has chaired the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Evan Weisman | 404.355.9815 | nweisman@mindspring.com
Dr. Weisman is a graduate of Yale and the Emory Medical School. He has practiced Cardiology in Atlanta from 1970 to 2007.

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

• Plumbers & Steamfitters HVAC, Local 188, United Association, Savannah, GA
• Savannah Regional Central Labor Council, Savannah, GA