Speakers (tentative):
- Martha Koester is a retired chemist and current full time activist on health care issues, among many other things. She is a board member of Health Care for All - Washington and a member of Physicians for a National Health Plan. Raised by partially disabled parents who couldn't get health insurance at any price, she has been active on the issue for most of her adult life. She has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in biochemistry. For the last 20 years she was an analytical chemist at Weyerhaeuser, where she worked on product development, environmental analysis and strategic biology, earning two patents.
- Don Mitchell, MD, retired after 30 years in the private practice of internal medicine. He joined the national organization
Physicians for a National Health Program
(PNHP) in 2006 and has been the chair of the Western Washington chapter of PNHP since 2007. He has been a member of the American College of Physicians for many years.
- Dorene Robinson RD CDN has been a registered dietitian and certified nutritionist since 1993. She's also an entrepreneur with a broad business background (including stock broker, travel agency owner, and HR Director). She's currently is co-owner of a marketing company in Bellevue, and owner of a new company she started this year to market her book on healthy eating and weight management. She's also a PCO for the 41st LD Democrats
- Sarah Weinberg, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program,
a resident of Mercer Island, is a retired pediatrician and an expert on Washington state’s history of failed health reforms, going back to the 1989 Braddock initiative. Dr. Weinberg graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1977 and completed her pediatric residency in the University of Washington’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital.
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