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Doctors For America
Doctors for America is a 501(c)(3) national, multi-specialty activist organization of physicians and medical students in the United States with a stated goal of improving affordable health care access. The organization was created by the Obama campaign, in 2008 as "Doctors for Obama" and rapidly grew to 10,000 members within a few months. It was founded by Alice Chen, Vivek Murthy, and Mandy Cohen. The group stated that it had a membership of 15,000 and a presence in all 50 states in October 2009. Advocacy The "four policy pillars" of the organization are expanding health insurance to all Americans; ensuring high-quality 21st-century care; expanding access to care; and improving practice environments for physicians in order to help them focus on improving patient care. The organization partnered with the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Student Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, and other organiza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Chen
Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and assistant clinical professor position at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Chen was a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America. Early life and education Chen is from the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied biology at Yale University. When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano but she picked up several more extracurricular activities including Russian language, Russian and Chinese calligraphy during the course of her undergraduate studies. She lived in Morse College. Chen was a student at Yale when she first became involved with campaigning, taking part in a protest on New Haven Green to stand against land mines. She moved to the Weill Corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |