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Garrett Adams MD, to speak at Park DuValle CHC, 3015 Wilson Ave., Wed. March 1, 2017, 5:30 pm
March 1, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Public Program on Improved Medicare for All, single payer health care
Speaker: Garrett Adams, MD, MPH
Topic: The Physicians’ Proposal for a National Health Plan: How it Helps Everyone
Wed. March 1, 2017, 5:30 to 7:00 PM
Park DuValle Community Health Center, 2nd floor classroom
3015 Wilson Ave., Lou 40211
Dr. Adams is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Wake Forest School of Medicine. He has a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health by whom he was recently recognized with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2014 he was the Granger Lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine.
He is retired from the full-time faculty of the University of Louisville School of Medicine where he was Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Communicable Diseases at the Louisville Metro Health Department.
He was national President of Physicians for a National Health Program 2010-2012 (www.pnhp.org) and is a founding member of PNHP-Kentucky (www.kyhealthcare.org).
He is the founder (2010) and Medical Director of the Beersheba Springs Medical Clinic, Beersheba Springs, Tennessee, a not-for-profit, volunteer clinic in the Cumberland mountains of Tennessee (www.beershebaclinic.org). In 2011 he testified to the U.S. Senate on “Is Poverty a Death Sentence”, based on his experience in Appalachia.
The program is open and the public is invited.