PAST EVENTS

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
7:30 p.m.

THE ROLE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
IN IMPROVING THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH:
The Need for Single Payer National Health Insurance

WITH

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

at
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
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

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
6:00 pm Reception ($20, students $5)
7:30 pm Forum (free)

AFTER THE ELECTIONS:
THE FUTURE OF MEDICARE
The Politics of Universal Health Care

WITH

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)


U.S. Rep. John Conyers


Joy Kallio and Joel Sega


Oliver Fein, MD and Rosanne Leipzig, MD
(photos by Sarah Miller)

AT
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
(accessible entrance: 243 Thompson Street)
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

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Avery Institute for Social Change, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, New Yorkers for National Health Care, New York City Chapter of Health Care Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, American Medical Student Association-Region 2, Workmen’s Circle-Arbeter Ring

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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?

WITH

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

at
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: American Medical Student Association Region 2, Avery Institute for Social Change, Einstein Community Health Outreach (Echo) Free Clinic, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, New York City Free Clinic, New Yorkers for National Health Care, New York City Health Care Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, Weill Cornell Community Clinic

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
7:30 p.m.

Politics, the Elections and
National Health Insurance

WITH

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

at
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Avery Institute for Social Change, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, New Yorkers for National Health Care, New York City Health Care Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National Medical Association-Region IX

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
RECEPTION: 6 pm ($10 suggested donation)
FORUM: 7 pm (FREE)

“The Health Care Crisis
& What To Do About It”

WITH

PAUL KRUGMAN
Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University
Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times

THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW YORK
40 East 35th Street
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Action for Justice Committee of the Community Church of NY
The New York Review of Books

co-sponsors: Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
Student National Medical Association Region IX
American Medical Student Association, Region 2
Public Health Association of New York City
Rekindling Reform
New Yorkers for National Health Care

PNHP NY METRO SPRING PARTY
featuring a cabaret performance by Margaret Crane
with Paul Chamlin at the keyboard
plus
desserts and refreshments dancing and conversation

Saturday, May 13, 2006
7:30 - 11pm

In the beautiful brownstone home of
The Ackerman Institute for the Family
149 East 78th Street
near Lexington Avenue in Manhattan
(near the 77th Street Stop on the #6 train or the M79 crosstown bus)

Suggested donation $100, $250, $500

RSVP (tel) 212-666-4001
(fax) 212-866-5847
(email) pnhpnyc@igc.org

Margaret Willig Crane, a New York-based soprano, is an enthusiastic interpreter of popular and classical songs spanning several centuries, styles, and cultures. She made her New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1984 and subsequently offered recitals at the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Center for Inter-American Relations, and numerous other venues across the United States and Canada. Today, Ms. Crane writes about science and medicine for diverse publications.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
7:30 p.m.

SHUT-OUT:
Immigrants & the U.S. Health Care System

WITH

Marcia Bayne-Smith, DSW
Associate Professor, Urban Studies, Queens College,
CUNY Past Chair, Caribbean Women’s Health Association

Sang Hee Won
Program Associate, Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of NY State Board Member,
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD
Director, Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities
Practices General Medicine in the Latino Community of Washington Heights in Manhattan

at
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: METRO NY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN
LATINOS FOR NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
STUDENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION-REGION IX
AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION-REGION 2
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Thursday, April 20, 2006
5 p.m.

The Health Care Emergency in Our Communities:
Inequalities and the Insurance Crisis

WITH

BYLLYE Y. AVERY
Founder, Avery Institute Social Change
and Black Women's Health Imperative
(New name of the National Black Women's Health Project)

LINNEA CAPPS, MD, MPH
Residency Program Director in Internal Medicine Harlem Hospital

GIL NOBLE
Host and Producer, "Like It Is"

GERALD E. THOMSON, MD
Lambert and Sonneborn Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Senior Associate Dean Emeritus Columbia University

GERALD W. DEAS, MD, MPH
Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

CO-CHAIRs:
AYODELE GREEN, MD
Resident, Department of Psychiatry Harlem Hospital

AYANA JORDAN
MD-PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

at
HARLEM HOSPITAL
135th Street and Lenox Avenue (Malcolm X Boulevard), Manhattan
IRT 2 or 3 to 135th Street & Lenox Avenue Station

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
and
Action for Justice Committee of the Community Church of NY

Co-sponsors
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
Student National Medical Association Region IX
American Medical Student Association, Region 2
Public Health Association of New York City
Rekindling Reform

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
7:30 p.m.

Beyond Financing Reform in National Health Care:
Reshaping Primary Care for the 21st Century

WITH

Merle Cunningham, MD MPH
Network Medical Director & Senior VP for Medical Affairs
Sunset Park/Lutheran Family Health Centers

Oliver Fein, MD
Chair, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter
Practicing General Internist, Weill Cornell Medical Center

Camille Taylor-Mullings, MD
Clinical Director, Genesis Center Brownsville Multiservice Family Health Center

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign
Student National Medical Association-Region IX
American Medical Student Association-Region 2
Public Health Association of New York City,
Queens College Urban Studies Department

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
7:30 p.m.

Ted Kennedy, Pete Stark, and other members of Congress
have recently introduced legislation extending Medicare to more and more
Americans. In this forum, we’ll explore the question:

“EXPANDING MEDICARE:
IS THIS A ROUTE TO UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE?”

WITH

Diane Archer
Special counsel, past president and founder of the Medicare Rights Center

AND

Len Rodberg
Urban Studies Department, Queens College/CUNY and treasurer, NY Metro Chapter, PNHP

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign
Student National Medical Association-Region IX
American Medical Student Association-Region 2
Public Health Association of New York City,
Queens College Urban Studies Department

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
7:30 p.m.

FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS:
Health Care Issue for Vulnerable Populations
in the Gay and Lesbian Populations

WITH

Darrell Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Hunter School of Social Work;
Co-principal investigator of a research study of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men in NYC,
as part of a CDC HIV/AIDS study entitled Brothers y Hermanos

Joyce Hunter, D.S.W.
Co-Director Community Collaboration Core, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies;
NY State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University

DISCUSSANT:
Joy Kallio
Founding Member, Remember Stonewall; Member, Board of Directors, PNHP-NY Metro

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Remember Stonewall: A Policy Institute of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community
Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign
Public Health Association of New York City,
Queens College Urban Studies Department

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
7:30 p.m.

Funding Universal Coverage and Malpractice Reform:
THE PENNSYLVANIA STRATEGY

WITH

Steven B. Larchuk, JD
Health and business law attorney from Pittsburgh, Pa. Founder of the American HealthCare Party and its first candidate for Congress in 2004 Chair of the Pennsylvania HealthCare Solutions Coalition Principal author of the proposed “Pennsylvania Balanced and Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act”

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign
Public Health Association of New York City,
Student National Medical Association Region IX,
American Medical Student Association Region 2
Queens College Urban Studies Department

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
7:30 p.m.

Medical Student Activism:
Then and Now

WITH

CEDRIC DARK
National Committee Chair, Health Policy and Legislative Affairs, Student National Medical Association (SNMA) MD Candidate, New York University School of Medicine MPH Candidate, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

KAO-PING CHUA
Peter Steinglass, MD is a psychiatrist who is currently President and CEO of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in NYC, a post-graduate clinical training and research institute. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill/Cornell Medical College and a member of the Board of the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP

QUENTIN YOUNG, MD
Active in the 1940s in the Association of Interns and Medicals Students (AIMS) National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program Internist in private practice & Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at University of Illinois Medical Center

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign
Public Health Association of New York City,
Student National Medical Association Region IX,
American Medical Student Association Region 2
Queens College Urban Studies Department

Tuesday, September 20, 2005
7:30 p.m.

HOSPITAL CLOSINGS IN NEW YORK:
HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND?

WITH

JUDY WESSLER
Director, Commission on the Public’s Health System

ROBERT PADGUG
Health Policy, Financing, and Economics Consultant Co-Chair, Public Policy Committee, Public Health Association of New York City

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign Public Health Association of New York City Queens College Urban Studies Department

Tuesday, June 14, 2005
7 pm reception / 7:30 pm meeting

Membership Meeting & Board Elections

with special guest
Walter Tsou, MD
MPH Pres., American Public Health Assn and PNHP Nat’l Board Member

Paid-up National PNHP members only (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

We are seeking nominations for the Chapter’s 2005-06 Board of Directors, to be elected at the June membership meeting. Board responsibilities include attending at least half the Board meetings, plus participating in other Chapter activities. (Most Board meetings are 6 - 7:30 pm before the forums.)

NOMINEE INFORMATION NEEDED: Name, Degree(s), Occup., Title, Dep’t, Workplace, Address, E-mail, Tel, Fax, plus a statement of no more than 120 words total consisting of a 1-paragraph bio and 1 paragraph on why you would like to serve. Send to PNHP-NY Metro, 2753 Broadway, #198, NY, NY 10025, fax to (212) 866-5847 or e-mail to pnhpnyc@igc.org. E-mail is much preferred. Nominations close on Wed. May 18: the information requested above is due by that date.

The New York Metro Chapter of
Physicians for a National Health Program

invites you to join us on
Saturday, June 4, 2004

for a gala party featuring a cabaret performance of
“Damaged Care”
with Drs. Greg LaGana and Barry Levy

Community Church of New York
40 East 35 Street
(between Madison and Park Avenues, Manhattan)

Suggested donation $150 or whatever you can afford
(especially students)

RSVP (212) 666-4001 or pnhpnyc.org

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
7:30 p.m.

Bringing Sanity into Mental Health Care:
Can National Health Insurance Help?

WITH

Marianne Jackson, PhD
Marianne Jackson, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn. She is Co-Chair of Mental Health Care for All New Yorkers, former President of the New York State Psychological Association, and a member of the Board of the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP

Peter Steinglass, MD
Peter Steinglass, MD is a psychiatrist who is currently President and CEO of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in NYC, a post-graduate clinical training and research institute. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill/Cornell Medical College and a member of the Board of the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association of New York City, American Medical Student Association, Region 2

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
7:30 p.m.

National Health Care: A Women’s Health

WITH

BYLLYE AVERY
Founder, Avery Institute for Social Change and National Black Women’s Health Project; Past Member, Charter Advisory Committee for the Office of Research on Women’s Health of the National Institutes of Health

LINDA PRINE, MD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Co-founder of Reproductive Health Access Project; Abortion provider and trainer of other doctors in abortion care at Planned Parenthood of NYC

AND

MARTHA LIVINGSTON, PHD
Vice Chair, PNHP NY Metro Chapter; Associate Professor of Health and Society, SUNY Old Westbury; Certified childbirth educator and midwifery advocate who has written and spoken on women’s health issues in several countries

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association of New York City, American Medical Student Association, Region 2, Queens College Urban Studies Department

LEADERSHIP TRAINING/ SPEAKER TRAINING
Come One, Come All!

Saturday, April 30 • 10 am - 4 pm

Come one, come all to PNHP-New York Metro's spring speaker/leadership training workshop! If you are active in the movement for national health care, and would like to learn how to talk about our issue - whether as an invited speaker, or to your colleagues or classmates in the cafeteria, or on the supermarket checkout line - this is the event for you! You'll see and hear how our chapter's seasoned speakers take on the issue with medical, professional and grassroots groups, and have ample opportunity to practice among friends, in small groups, with individualized assistance. At the end of the day, you'll feel more comfortable presenting our message effectively. Depending on who signs up, we'll tailor the small groups to your particular needs, e.g., physicians, medical students, grassroots activists. Whether you're brand-new to our movement, or have been talking about national health care forever, this workshop will be an opportunity to learn from and share with colleagues - and have a good time in the process.

$12 including lunch and materials (students free). It's OK to pay at the door, but please let us know ahead of time if you plan to come so we can plan meals and materials accordingly.

The Training will be held at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue (at 69th Street) in Room A-126 (York is one block east of First Avenue, in Manhattan). To register call 212-666-4001, or fax the little form below to 212-866-584,7 or send an email to pnhpnyc@igc.org with the information requested on the form.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005
7:30 p.m.

MEDICAID UNDER ATTACK:
HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND?

WITH

CINDY MANN, JD
Research Professor, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University; Ms. Mann directed the Family and Children’s division of Medicaid and the State Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) at the federal level during the last 18 months of the Clinton Administration. She worked as a Senior Fellow with the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and continues to serve as an Associate Commissioner

AND

DENISE SOFFEL, PhD
Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of New York; Denise Soffel has served as the Senior Policy Analyst for health issues in the Department of Policy Research and Advocacy at the Community Service Society (CSS) since 1995. She shapes CSS’s health agenda, advocating for programs and policies that better meet the needs of low income New Yorkers. Her work focuses on issues of health care and poverty, with emphases on public health coverage programs; access to care and the maintenance of the health care safety net; and the primary care delivery system in underserved urban neighborhoods Rights

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
NY Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association of New York City, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National Medical Association, Region IX, American Medical Student Association, Region 2

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
7:30 p.m.

RACE-BASED MEDICINE:
SCIENCE OR MARKETING?

WITH
CHARLES K. FRANCIS, MD, FACP, FACC
Rudin Scholar in Urban Health; Director, Office of Health Disparities; New York Academy of Medicine; President, American College of Physicians

AND

H. JACK GEIGER, MD
Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, City University of New York Medical School; Author of major reviews and analyses of the peer-reviewed studies on racial/ethnic disparities in health care, for the Institute of Medicine and for Physicians for Human Rights

DISCUSSANT

ANDREW MORAN, MD, MPH
3rd year Resident; Columbia-Presbyterian Internal Medicine Program

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
NY Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association of New York City, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National Medical Association, Region IX, American Medical Student Association, Region 2

Tuesday, January 25, 2005
7:30 p.m.

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE:
ON YOUR OWN IN BUSH’S “OWNERSHIP SOCIETY”

WITH
DIANE ARCHER
Ms. Archer, an attorney, is special counsel to the Medicare Rights Center, and is past president and founder. She is a nationally-recognized authority on Medicare and respected consumer advocate who has spoken and published widely on Medicare issues. Archer is a past member of the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Panel on Medicare Education and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services National Medicare Education Partners.

LEONARD RODBERG, PHD
Dr. Rodberg teaches Urban Studies at Queens College and directs the Infoshare Community Data Service (www.infoshare.org). His health care reform activities began in 1974 when he led the development of the Dellums Health Service Act. He Finance Chair of the NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program and Co-Editor of its Forum Reports.

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER, METRO NY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN, PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY, QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT, JPAC FOR OLDER ADULTS, NEW YORK NETWORK FOR ACTION ON MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY, STUDENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, REGION IX AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION, REGION

Saturday, December 11, 2004
1 - 3:30 p.m.

HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT:
A CALL FOR ACTION

Town Meeting at Harlem Hospital
135th St and Lenox Ave, Manhattan

Moderator, Ian Smith, MD
Medical correspondent for NBC News, Channel 4

Welcoming Remarks, John M. Palmer, PhD
Executive Director, Harlem Hospital Center

Dialogue on Health Care Reform and Health Disparities
Why We Are Here
Byllye Avery, Founder Avery Institute for Social Change

Health Disparities and People of Color
Joycelyn Elders, MD
Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Former U.S. Surgeon General

Health Care as a Human Right
Robert Fullilove, PhD
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

“US National Health Insurance Act” HR 676
Representative from Physicians for National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter

Open Dialogue: Community Questions and Answers

A Call to Action, C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President

Convened by The Avery Institute for Social Charge,
Co-Sponsors: Friends of Harlem Hospital
Mailman School of Public Health
Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter
Campaign for a National Health Program NOW!
New York Drifters, Inc.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004
7:30 p.m.

HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE

WITH
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
Editors at large at Time magazine and authors of the book Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business—And Bad Medicine; Barlett and Steele’s Op Ed “The Health of Nations” appeared in the Sunday, Oct 24th issue of The New York Times

discussant: Oliver Fein, MD
Chair, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter Association

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING
6:30 - 7:30 pm in the Conference Room
behind the 2nd Floor Lecture Hall
Donation for Reception $10 – Students Free

Reservations not required, but to assure a seat and help with refreshment planning,
if possible please let us know if you plan to attend a) the book signing reception and b) the talk.

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, October 19, 2004
7:30 p.m.

Medical Student Activism: Then and Now

WITH
Lambert King, MD
Director of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center
Participant in the Student Health Organization and the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the 1960s and 70s

Jonel Daphnis
National Health Policy and Legislative Affairs Committee Co-Chair Student National Medical Association

Casey KirkHart, DO
American Medical Student Association
Jack Rutledge Fellow for Achieving Universal Health Care and Eliminating Health Disparities

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Student National Medical Association-Region IX
American Medical Student Association-Region II
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
7 p.m.

RACISM, A HEALTH CRISIS
CHALLENGES FOR THE MEDIA AND SOCIETY

WITH
Eddie Ellis
Host of “On the Count” radio program on WBAI, and Director of the Prison Ministry of New York's Riverside Church?

Dr. Frederick Newsome
Associate Attending Physician in Medicine, Harlem Hospital Assistant
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University

Tim Wise
Director, Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE)

Riverside Church, 120th & Claremont
(near Broadway), Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Student National Medical Association-Region IX
American Medical Student Association-Region II
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, April 27, 2004
7:30 p.m.

Racial Disparities and
The Need for Health Care Reform:
Beating Around the Bush

WITH
Robert Fullilove, PhD

H. Jack Geiger, MD

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, March 23, 2004
7:30 p.m.

THE ROLE OF HOUSE STAFF
IN HEALTH CARE REFORM

WITH
GERALD PACCIONE, MD
Director, Social Medicine Primary Care Programs and Medical Service 3, Montefiore Hospital Professor of Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

MARIA RAVEN, MD, MPH
Organizer, health policy component to Bellevue/NYU Emergency Medicine Conference Series for faculty and residents

STEPHEN CHA, MD
Chief Resident, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center; Activist on residency work hours and safety; Coordinator, Elective Course on “Research-Based Health Activism” at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, February 24, 2004
7:30 p.m.

CAN WE FINANCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON NEW DRUGS AND LOWER DRUG PRICES AT THE SAME TIME?
Changing the Business Model for Financing Pharmaceutical R&D At Home and Abroad

WITH
JAMES LOVE
Economist; Director, Consumer Project on Technology Co-Chair, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue on Intellectual Property

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

PNHP-NY Metro Participation in NYC Rally in Support of California Grocery Workers on Strike for Health Benefits

On February 5, 2004 PNHP NY Metro Chapter members joined a Wall Street rally in support of California grocery workers striking for their health benefits. Below is a photo of medical students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Metro NY PNHP Executive Director Joanne Landy (center) at the rally. From left to right: Ben Eckhardt, Gloria Fung, Gene Reinersman, Joanne Landy, Esther Knapp, Casey Barbaro, Frederick Nagel. Photo: Jon Bloom.


Seventy thousand supermarket workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) have been on strike for over 3 months in California over contract negotiations in which their employers, Safeway, Kroger, and Albertsons, are trying to force significant reductions in health care benefits. To help these supermarket chains hold the line against the striking workers, Wall Street firms are recommending investors buy stock in them, as part of an industry-wide effort to lower the standards of employer-based coverage, beyond these particular firms per se. The larger context of this strike is the entry of Walmart into the supermarket and drug store business in California — Walmart is a fiercely non-union employer which generally doesn't offer any health coverage to employees for at least 2 years, so what we are witnessing is a "race to the bottom."

Tuesday, January 27, 2004
7:30 p.m.

The Impact of the So-Called
“Medicare Prescription Drug Act”
on Single Payer Health Care Reform

WITH
Quentin Young, MD
National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program Dr. Young is an internist in private practice and Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He served as Chair of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and as President of PNHP and of the American Public Health Association

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

6:30 - 7:30 PM Reception for Dr. Young
in the Conference Room behind the 2nd Floor Lecture Hall

Reservations not required, but to assure a seat and help with refreshment planning, if possible please let us know if you plan to attend a) the reception and b) the talk. (212) 666-4001 or pnhpnyc@igc.org

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
REKINDLING REFORM
QUEENS COLLEGE URBAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
CAMPAIGN AD HOC COMMITTEE TO DEFEND HEALTH CARE

P N H P   i n   W e s t c h e s t e r

Friday, January 30, 2004
5:30 PM “Meet and Greet” with refreshments
6:00 -7:30 PM (program starts promptly)

Comparing U.S. And European Health Care Systems

WITH
Richard Saltman, PhD
Professor, Health Policy, Emory University

Scarsdale Congregational Church
Heathcote Road and Post Road, Scarsdale
Free parking available

SPONSOR: Westchester Health Action Coalition COSPONSORS: Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action at Manhattanville College; NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program; Westchester Progressive Forum; Mercy College, Div. of Health Professions/WESPAC Foundation; Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services; NY StateWide Senior Action Council; League of Women Voters of Westchester; Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University; Sarah Lawrence College, Health Advocacy

Diagnosis:
National Healthcare Crisis
Prescription:
National Health Coverage!

A Film Festival in Support of
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ALL

Sunday, December 7, 2003
3:00 - 8:00 PM
AT 1199 (SEIU) 310 WEST 43RD STREET
(BTW 8TH AND 9TH AVE)

3:00 "John Q" Major Hollywood film about an ordinary American factory worker (Denzel Washington) who assumes his family is covered by health care - until his son has a life-threatening medical emergency.
5:00

CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS (D-MI), the author of the United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) in Congress, and Dr. Oliver Fein of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM explain how we can win a universal national health care system for all.

Moderated by MARILYN CLEMENT
Founder of Campaign for A National Health Program NOW

**Popcorn and juice will be served**

6:00 "Damaged Care" A true story from Showtime about one ex-doctor's (Laura Dern) war against the Managed Care Insurance Companies and their negligence towards the people whose health care costs they are responsible for covering

Co-Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program
NY Metro Chapter
& Campaign for a National Health Program NOW

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
339 Lafayette Ave New York, NY 10003
www.wilpfnymetro.org 212-533-2125 wilpf@wilpfnymetro.org

Open, Free Flow Admission. Contributions Are Encouraged!

Tuesday, November 11, 2003
7:30 PM

HEALTH CARE FOR ALL?
Immigrant Health and the Movement for Universal Health Care

With

Jyotsna Changrani, MD, MPH
Assistant Director Center for Immigrant Health, Division of Primary Care, New York University School of Medicine
Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy & Management at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities

May Chen
Vice President of UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees)

Phillips Ambulatory Care Ctr
2nd Fl Lecture Hall, 10 Union Sq East, Manhattan

Co-sponsors: PNHP-NY Metro Chapter, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, PHANYC

Tuesday, October 21, 2003
7:30 PM

Medical Student Activist:
Where Do We Go From Here?

With

Spencer Nabors, MA, MPH
National Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Student National Medical Association, MD Candidate, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY

Anjali Taneja, MPH
Jack Rutledge Fellow, American Medical Student Association, MD Candidate, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

Oliver Fein, MD
Prof. of Clinical Medicine & Public Health, Cornell Weill Medical College Founding Member, Student Health Organization (1965-1969) Chair, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter

Moderator: Chris Oleskey
Medical Student, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Member, Board of Directors, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter

Phillips Ambulatory Care Ctr
2nd Fl Lecture Hall, 10 Union Sq East, Manhattan

Co-sponsors: PNHP-NY Metro Chapter, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Region IX, Student National Medical Association Region II, American Medical Student Association, Queens College Urban Studies Program, PHANYC

Tuesday, September 30, 2003
7:30 PM

Achieving National Health Insurance: How to Change Public
Thinking About What’s Possible

With
Robert Kuttner
Co-editor of The American Prospect, syndicated columnist,
author of seven books including Everything for Sale,
and former national policy correspondent of The New England Journal of Medicine

Phillips Ambulatory Care Ctr
2nd Fl Lecture Hall, 10 Union Sq East, Manhattan

Co-sponsors: PNHP-NY Metro Chapter, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, PHANYC

Tuesday, June 24, 2003
7:30 PM

Metro NY Chapter Membership Meeting and Board Elections

Paid-up members of national PNHP only
(you may join or renew before the meeting, or at the door)

GRILL THE GURUS
Health reform questions you’ve been saving up?
Nagging questions or pesky details just beyond your grasp?
Here’s your opportunity to ask all these and more of
Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH
Oli Fein, MD
Mark Hannay
Joanne Landy, MPH, MA
Susan Moscou, MPH, PNP
Alec Pruchnicki, MD
Len Rodberg, PhD
Timothy B. Sullivan, MD
A special prize will be awarded to the hardest
legitimate question that stumps the panel!

AGENDA
• Welcome and Sharing of Where People Have Spoken
• Description of Chapter Organization
• Summary of Past Year’s Activities
• Treasurer’s Report and Finance Committee Report
• Membership Committee Report
• Speakers Bureau Report
• Report on Nominations
• Elections for Board of Directors
• Local Work for Medicare, Medicaid and Union Health Care Benefits
• Sign-Up for Activities and Projects
• Report on national PNHP
• Grill the Gurus

Refreshments at the end of the meeting

Phillips Ambulatory Care Ctr
2nd Fl Lecture Hall, 10 Union Sq East, Manhattan

Monday, June 9, 2003
7 to 9 PM

Chapter Fundraising Party

an evening of conversation and fun with
David Himmelstein, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Refreshments and food for thought with members and friends of PNHP

Suggested tax-deductible contribution $100 or more
(or whatever you feel comfortable giving). Students free.

RSVP (212) 666-4001 or email pnhpnyc@igc.org

Tuesday, May 20, 2003
7:30 PM

Medical Malpractice, Health Care Quality,
and Health Care Reform

With
Gordon Schiff, MD
Past President and current Board member, Physicians for a National Health Program (national), is a senior attending physician and Director of Clinical Quality Research in the Dept of Medicine at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital. He has chaired Cook County’s Assurance/Improvement Committee, and is Associate Professor of Medicine at Rush, Fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, and a founding steering committee member of the Chicago Patient Safety Forum. He is author of numerous articles on medical informatics, quality improvement, patient safety, and medication usage quality

Phillips Ambulatory Care Ctr
2nd Fl Lecture Hall, 10 Union Sq East, Manhattan

Co-sponsors: PNHP-NY Metro Chapter, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, PHANYC

Tuesday, May 13, 2003
7:00 PM

Why The U.S. Needs Single Payer
National Health Insurance

First meeting in Westchester County/Mid-Hudson Valley area
of the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP

Dr. Oliver Fein
Chair of PNHP-NY Metro Chapter

Scarsdale Public Library, 54 Olmsted Road

Refreshments 6:30 pm, meeting begins 7:00

Please tell your friends and colleagues from the Westchester, Northern Manhattan and the Bronx to Western Connecticut, Rockland, and Putnam counties—even as far as Ulster County.

Tuesday, April 29, 2003
7:30 PM

Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D.
Senior Resident Scholar for Health National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality

Marcia Bayne-Smith, MSW, DSW
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies Department, Queens College and Chair, Caribbean Women's Health Association

Health Care Disparities, Health Care Justice, and Health Care Reform: Race, Politics and Money

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program; Region IX: Student National Medical Association; Region II: American Medical Student Association; New York Urban League; Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association of New York City; Nurse Practitioners of New York: Rekindling Reform

2nd Annual Joanne Lukomnik Health Care Reform Forum

Wednesday, April 23
5:30 pm

The Rise and Fall of the Clinton Plan:
Lessons for Achieving Universal Health Care

With
Theda Skocpol, Ph.D.
author of Boomerang: Clinton’s Health Reform and the Turn Against Government, Prof. of Government and Sociology and Director of the Ctr for American Political Studies at Harvard.

Forum at Hunter Coll School of Social Work
129 E. 79 St. (at Lexington Ave), Manhattan

Sponsored by Rekindling Reform

PNHP-NY Metro Chapter
SPEAKER TRAINING

Come One, Come All!
Saturday, April 12 • 10 am - 4 pm

Haven’t spoken at all, ever?
Haven’t spoken in a while?
Want to swap tips with other speakers?

Training will be for physicians, medical students, and community speakers. We will offer workshops where participants will role-play and practice delivering the information in the PNHP slide show, answering difficult questions, handling audiences, etc. Even if you don’t think you want to speak, you are welcome.

The Ackerman Institute
149 E. 78th Street (near Lexington Ave), Manhattan
$12 including lunch and materials (students free)
To register call 212-666-4001 or send an email to pnhpnyc@igc.org

Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2003
7:30 PM

Roger Toussaint
PresidentTransport Workers Union Local 100

Judy Wessler
Director, Commission on the Public's Health System

Joanne Landy
Executive Director, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter

Responding to Health Care Cutbacks and Building the Movement for Universal Health Care: Can We Do Both?

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Queens College Urban Studies Program
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
Transport Workers Union Local 100 Commission on the Public's Health System
Public Health Association Of New York City

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003
7:30 PM

Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D.
Treasurer, PNHP-Metro NY Chapter
Chair, Urban Studies Department, Queens College, CUNY

Paying for Single Payer:
Where Will the Money Come From?

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The Metro New York Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Queens College Urban Studies Program
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
Public Health Association Of New York City

Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003
7:00 PM

Oliver Fein , MD
Chair, New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program

The Health Care Crisis: Reopening the Drive for National Health Insurance

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The Metro New York Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Queens College Urban Studies Program
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
Public Health Association Of New York City

Tuesday, November 19, 2002
7:30 PM

Benjamin Chu, MD, MPH
President, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

The Role of Public Hospitals in a National Health Program

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of Physicians for aNational Health Program
Queens College Urban Studies Program
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
Public Health Association Of New York City

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION

PARTY WITH DR. LINDA PEENO

Saturday Evening, October 19
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Suggested tax-deductible donation $20

The party will be at the apartment of
Len Rodberg in Manhattan
404 Riverside Drive at 113th St., Apt. 4D
(#1/9 subway to 110th St.)

RSVP to PNHP-NY, 2840 Broadway, #297, New York, NY 10025
Tel: (212) 666-4001, Fax: (212) 866-5847, Email: pnhpnyc@igc.org
(It’s not necessary to RSVP, but if you think you are coming
we would appreciate hearing from you so we can estimate amounts of food and drink)

Saturday, October 19
9 am to 12 noon

Manhattan location to be announced

Quality Mental Health Care for All

Featuring Linda Peeno MD, a physician, writer and speaker on health care reform and the abuses of managed care, based on her experiences working as a medical reviewer for HMOs. She is the real life whistle blower depicted in the movie “Damaged Care” — seen on Showtime this past Spring. also: Pat Dowds PhD, Sharon Carpinello RN, PhD, Kirkland Vaughns PhD and Marianne Jackson PhD

Presented by Rescue Health Care New York, NY Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, Social Issues Division of NYSPA, National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers (NCMHPC), Metro Health Care for All Campaign, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)

Tuesday, October 15, 2002
7:30 PM

Eric Hodgson, MD
President, American Medical Student Association

A National Officer Student
National Medical Association

Oliver Fein, MD
Chair, PNHP-NY Prof. of Clinical Medicine & Public Health, Cornell Weill Medical College; Former Medical Student Activist

Student Activism in the Medical Professions:
Then and Now

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of Physicians for aNational Health Program
Region IX, Student National Medical Association
Region II, American Medical Student Association
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
Public Health Association Of New York City

Tuesday, September 17, 2002
7:30 PM

Sharon Lerner
Reporter covering health care issues for the Village Voice Fellow at the University of Maryland, studying children and health

Doug Henwood
Editor, Left Business Observer

Health Care and the Elections

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of Physicians for aNational Health Program
Queens College Urban Studies Program
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
Public Health Association Of New York City

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION

Tuesday, May 21, 2002
7:30 PM

Gerald E. Thomson, MD
Lambert and Sonneborn Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Senior Associate Dean for Minority Affairs at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Racial Disparities in Access to Medical Care: Beyond Health Insurance

Discussants:
Don A. Dayson, MD
Attending physician at Harlem Hospital and in the Renaissance Health Care Network; practices medicine at Harlem Hospital and has a private internal medicine practice in Harlem. Member of the Manhattan Central Medical Association, local affiliate of the National Medical Association

Spencer Nabors
Director, Region IX, Student National Medical Association; MD Candidate, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of Physicians for aNational Health Program
Region IX, Student National Medical Association
Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign
Public Health Association Of New York City

Tuesday, April 30, 2002
7:30 PM

PNHP-NY presents the first annual Joanne Lukomnik Fund for Health Care Reform lecture

Bruce Vladeck, PhD

The Future of Medicare:
Medicare for All?

with commentary from Lani Sanjek, BSN, NY Network for Action on Medicare; Assoc. Dir., NY Statewide Senior Action Council and
Alec Pruchnicki, MD, member of PNHP-NY Executive Board.

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Thursday, April 18, 2002

Dr. Raisa Deber
University of Toronto

Canada’s Healthcare System

5 pm reception, 5:30 pm presentation

Hunter College School of Social Work
79 & Lexington
(Rekindling Reform Lecture Series on national health care systems in other countries and their implications for comprehensive U.S. health reform. PNHP-NY is one of the RR sponsors.)

Tuesday, March 26, 2002
7:30 PM

PNHP-NY Chapter Membership Meeting

Paid-up members of national PNHP only
(you may join or renew before the meeting, or at the door)

SPECIAL GUEST :
Don McCanne, MD
President, Physicians for a National Health Program (national), moderator and driving force behind the "Quote of the Day" listserve

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY–NYC
DOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN

Tuesday, February 26, 2002
7:30 PM

Health Professionals,
War and Bioterrorism

SPEAKERS:
Victor Sidel, MD
Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Member of PNHP, PHANYC, PSR, DGH

Lynn Amowitz, MD
Fireman Health and Human Rights Fellow, Physicians for Human Rights-USA; Amowitz recently returned from Afghanistan, and has written PHR's report on women's health and human rights in that country

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY–NYC
DOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN

Report on Feb. 16, 2001 Leafletting of “John Q”
by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
and Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign

Saturday February 16 was a beautiful day for leafletting, and we had an excellent turnout of 30 people to pass out flyers to people coming out of the new film "John Q," an action-packed movie starring Denzel Washington that dramatizes the urgent need for national health insurance in this country. It's very encouraging to note that it was by far and away the #1 film this weekend! The leaflet we gave out is available by clicking here. Look below to see photos of medical student Chris Oleskey passing out flyers, Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo talking with a TV reporter, and PNHP's Helen Ruddy, NP and Mark Hannay, Executive Director of Metro NY Health Care for All; please feel free to copy, adapt and distribute the flyer at your neighborhood theater or anywhere else where there might be a receptive audience.

Some of you may have seen an earlier edition of the flyer. The section on Medicare has been strengthened in this final version.

The media showed up, and several PNHPers were interviewed: Olveen Carrasquillo MD, Helen Ruddy NP, and Chris Oleskey. Also interviewed were Terry Mizrahi, PhD, National President, National Association of Social Workers and Richard Gottfried, New York State Assembly Health Committee Chair, who had come down to join the leafletting. We were covered on local TV stations WPIX and UPN. According to one person who saw the coverage, WPIX was pretty disappointing, but UPN made it sound like ALL medical professionals support single-payer health care. (We wish! Well, we're working on it!)

An AP reporter was also present, as well as a camera person from Univision. If anyone sees coverage from these outlets, please contact us.

This film can be a big opportunity to offer the PNHP message to the public. Thanks to all of you who came on Saturday, and let us know if we can be of any help to you in taking advantage of this important opening at a movie theater, community group, or workplace near you!

(photos by Michael Rabinowitz)

Medical school student Chris Oleskey leaflets passer-by in front of movie theater
leafletters Jeff Gold and Lani Sanjek
Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo being interviewed by a TV reporter
PNHP's Helen Ruddy NP and Mark Hannay, Director of NY Metro Health Care for All
(l-r) Richard Gottfried, Chair of New York State Assembly Health Committee, Richard Brown MD (mostly his elbow is showing), PNHP-NY Executive Director Joanne Landy, John Glasel (black cap and leather jacket), Dr. John Jacoby, and Nick Unger (blue jacket)
(l-r) Robb Burlage, John Glasel, Richard Gottfried

Tuesday, January 22, 2002
7:30 PM

Global Trade Policy and Public Health:
CARE FOR ALL OR JUST FOR SOME?

SPEAKERS:
Patty Devinney, RN
President, Nurses United, Communications Workers of America, Local 1168, Buffalo, New York

Alan Berkman, MD
 Assistant Professory of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Founding member, Health Global Access Project

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
NEW YORK JOBS WITH JUSTICE
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY

REPORT ON PNHP-NY 12/8/01 PROTEST AGAINST DRUG COMPANY MANIPULATION OF DOCTORS' CHOICE OF DRUGS

While doctors inside the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan were taking in their free meals and $500 "advisor's fee, along with Forest Labs' "educational" tract on its antidepressant Celexa, 80-plus picketers marched in front of the hotel on Saturday, December 8 carrying placards with such messages as: "Patients Not Profits" and "Forest Labs Gouges Americans: Celexa Pills Cost $2.25 in the U.S., $1.00 in Canada," and chanting such mottos as "The people united Will never be so cheated!" "Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Sky-high drug prices got to go!" "Two-four-six-eight! Americans pay twice the rate!" and "Big PhRMA! Bad Karma" (they rhyme). Flyers were distributed to passers-by.

Participants included doctors, nurses, medical students, healthcare workers, the elderly, and the disabled (including two in their motorized chairs who joined in the picket line). The New York Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program initiated the event, with several organizations joining as cosponsors: Region II of the American Medical Student Association, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Brooklyn-wide Interagency Council of the Aging, Public Health Association of New York City, American Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Disabled In Action of Metropolitan New York, JPAC for Older Adults, NYC Citizens' Committee on Aging, NY StateWide Senior Action Council, and the Brooklyn Chapter of the Older Women's League.

This first demonstration clearly resonated with the public and should be repeated across the country so our legislators understand that the people speak more loudly than drug company donations to their campaigns.

Thanks to all picketers: without your participation it could never have happened. If you would like to join PNHP-NY in future protests against high drug prices and the marketing practices of the pharmaceutical companies, please contact us. Our contact information is given below.

Richard J. Brown, M.D. and Joanne Landy, M.P.H.
Physicians for a National Health Program
New York Chapter
2840 Broadway, #297
New York, NY 10025
Tel: (212) 666-4001
Fax (212) 866-5847
Email pnhpnyc@igc.org or rjb151@columbia.edu

Tuesday, November 27, 2001
7:30 PM

HEALTH CARE AND THE MEDIA

SPEAKERS:
Katherine Eban Finkelstein
Metro Reporter, The New York Times

Amy Goodman
Co-host of Pacifica Radio's newsmagazine Democracy Now!

Janine Jackson Program
Director, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, October 16, 2001
7:30 PM

FROM MAINE TO WASHINGTON, D.C.
Winning Universal Single Payer Health Care

SPEAKERS:
JAY HOUGHTON, RN
Houghton is Chair of the Health Care Coordinating Committee of the Maine People’s Alliance which gained a major victory in June ‘01 when Maine’s governor signed the Universal Single Payer Health Care bill after it passed both houses of the state legislature

JEFF HUEBNER, MD
As Jack Rutledge Fellow at the American Medical Student Association in Washington DC, Huebner concentrates on work related to universal health care on both the national and state levels

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan

Sponsored by
The New York Chapter of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
REGION II OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION (AMSA)
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEW YORK HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

Tuesday, September 25, 2001
7:30 PM

BIG DOCTORING:
Primary Care — Essential and Endangered

SPEAKER:
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, George Washington University; Contributing Editor, Health Affairs; Staff Physician, Upper Cardozo Health Center, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mullan is the author of White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician, Vital Signs: A Young Doctor’s Struggle with Cancer, and Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service. He was a founding member of the Student Health Organization and the Lincoln Pediatrics Collective. He has served as President of the Committee of Interns and Residents, and as Director of the National Health Service Corps and of the Bureau of Health Professions of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Am