Arthur J. Viseltear Prize Award Presentation for 2022
Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun

Evening with Adam Gaffney, M.D.

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Westin Boston Convention Center, Marina 1

425 Summer Street, Boston, MA

 

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

6:00 – 8:30 pm

 

Arthur J. Viseltear Prize Award Presentation for 2022
Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University for his book, All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health (UNC Press, 2022)

Remarks of Dr. Adam Gaffney
Dr. Adam Gaffney, M.D. M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance. His research focuses on national healthcare reform, healthcare equity, and disparities in lung health. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, and is the author of the 2017 book To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History. The immediate past-president of the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Physicians for a National Health Program, Dr. Gaffney is also a frequent writer and commentator on matters of health policy in the media. He recently testified at a Hearing of the Budget Committee of the US Senate on Medicare for All legislation. Dr. Gaffney received his MD from New York University and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency at the Columbia University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 

Program

6:0 0 – 7:00 pm        Reception: Hors d’oeuvres and Cash Bar

7:00 – 7:15 pm        Introduction and Welcome

                                     Oliver Fein, M.D.

                                     Weill Cornell Medicine

                                     Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Ph.D.

                                     Department of Clinical Pharmacology, UCSF

                                     Chair, Medical Care Section

                                                      

7:15 – 7:20 pm        Presentation of Viseltear Award for Public Health History

                                     Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D.

                                     Associate Professor

                                     Mailman School of Public Health

                                     Columbia University  

 

7:20 – 7:40 pm         Viseltear Awardee for Public Health History

                                     Merlin Chowkwanyun, Ph.D., M.P.H.

                                     Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences

Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University

Author of: “All Health Politics is Local” 

 

7:40 – 8:15 pm         Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.

                                     Pulmonary Specialist, Cambridge Health Allianee

                                     Harvard Medical School   

                                     Past President

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)