Workforce on Health Policy, Reform, and Advocacy*

Areas of responsibility will include developing responses to industry, other specialties and the government on issues that affect the practice of medicine/thoracic surgery, maintaining interaction with other organizations that will provide coalition support or information that will help the Society maintain its position of strength in the area of health policy, and related media interaction activities.

J. Robert Headrick, Chair — Chattanooga, TN
Keith D. Mortman, Vice Chair — Washington, DC
Anelechi Anyanwu** — New York, NY
Peyman Benharash — Los Angeles, CA
Edward Y. Chan — Washington, DC
George M. Comas — Birmingham, MI
Ankit Dhamija — Stony Brook, NY
Isidore Dinga Madou — Clackamas, OR
Carolyn A. Dubeau — San Antonio, TX
Afshin Ehsan — Georgetown, TX
Trevor Ashton Ellison — New Albany, OH
Rachael Essig — Millcreek, UT
Amy Fiedler — San Francisco, CA
Peter J. Gruber** — New Haven, CT
Jeremiah A. Hayanga — Morgantown, WV
Ahmad Hider — Aurora, CO
Taryne A. Imai — Honolulu, HI
Sean A. Jordan — Knoxville, TN
John M. Karamichalis — New York, NY
Seth Krantz — Evanston, IL
Tessa London — Lexington, KY
Rachel L. Medbery — Atlanta, GA
Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce — Burlington, MA
Edward T. Murphy — Grand Rapids, MI
Alykhan S. Nagji — Kansas City, KS
Fawwaz R. Shaw — Atlanta, GA
Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang** — Winchester, MA
Jane Zhao — Memphis, TN
 

*Joint STS/AATS activity
**AATS representative