Doctors for America Board

  • PRESIDENT and CO-FOUNDER
  • Vivek Murthy, MD MBA email

  • VICE PRESIDENT
  • Alice T. Chen, MD email

  • EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
  • Mandy K. Cohen, MD MPH email

  • POLITICAL DIRECTOR and CO-FOUNDER
  • Milan de Vries, PhD email

  • STRATEGY DIRECTOR and CO-FOUNDER
  • Nikhil Wagle, MD email

  • NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR
  • Alex Blum, MD email

  • DEPUTY NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTORS
  • Zaneb Beams, MD &ndash Regions 3 and 7 and Special Projects email
  • Samreen Hasan, MPH – Regions 2, 6, and 8 email
  • Ali Khan – Regions 1, 4, 5, and 10 email
  • A. Rab Razzak, MD – Volunteer Recruitment email
  • Krishnan Subrahmanian – Strategy and Metrics and Region 9 email

  • COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
  • Megan Smith email

  • BOARD MEMBER at LARGE
  • Arun R. Patel, MD JD email

Field Team

Our national field team is made up of practicing physicians and medical students across the country who volunteer their time to organize physicians in regions, states, and communities. The field team is organized into 10 regions that are each lead by Regional Directors (location in parentheses).

Regional Directors

  • REGION 1: ME,VT,NH,CT,MA,RI
  • Nirali Bora, MD (Rhode Island) email
  • Zachary Ginsberg (Massachusetts, but focusing on Maine) email
  • Norris Kamo (Massachusetts) email

  • REGION 2: NY
  • Javeed Sukhera, MD (Upstate) email
  • Eli Sprecher (NYC) email
  • Robin Tang (NYC) email

  • REGION 3: PA,NJ,DE,MD,WV
  • Zaneb Beams, MD (Maryland) email
  • Sanjay Gupta, MD (New Jersey) email
  • Krishnan Narasimham, MD (Maryland) email

  • REGION 4: VA,DC,NC,SC,KY,TN
  • Ali Khan (Virginia, but currently in MA) email
  • Youssra Marjoua (Virginia) email
  • Rachna Vanjani (DC) email

  • REGION 5: IN,MI,OH
  • Steve Driver (Ohio) email
  • REGION 6: MN,ND,SD,IA,MO,WI,IL,NE,KS
  • Sangeeta Patel, MPH (Illinois) email
  • Elizabeth Salisbury, MD (Illinois) email

  • REGION 7: TX,OK,AR,LA,MS
  • Zahid Imran, MD (Louisiana) email
  • Winfred Parnell, MD (Texas) email
  • Katherine Scheirman, MD (Oklahoma) email

  • REGION 8: AK,HI,WA,OR,MT,WY,ID,NV,UT,CO,AZ,NM
  • Elaine Bradshaw, MD (New Mexico) email
  • Lila Rosenthal, MD (Colorado) email

  • REGION 9: CA
  • Connie Chen (Northern California) email
  • Niranjan Puranik, MD (Fresno) email

  • REGION 10: GA,AL,FL,PR
  • Mona Mangat, MD (Florida) email

State Directors

  • Alaska (email)
  • Paul Davis, MD
  • Natalie Hale
  • Alabama (email)
  • Tom Ellison, MD

  • Arizona (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • Arkansas (email)
  • Hershey Garner, MD JD

  • California (email)
  • Ben Seligman, MD (Northern)
  • Brad Rosen, MD (Southern)

  • Colorado (email)
  • Lisha Barre, MD

  • Connecticut (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • DC (email)
  • Rachna Vanjani

  • Delaware (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • Florida (email)
  • Sultan Rahaman, MD

  • Georgia (email)
  • Caroline Tse, MD

  • Hawaii (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • Iowa (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • Idaho (email)
  • Tim McHugh, MD

  • Illinois (email)
  • V. Ram Krishnamoorthi, MD

  • Indiana (email)
  • Andrew P. Loehrer, MD

  • Kansas (email)
  • Robyn Liu, MD

  • Louisiana (email)
  • Heidi Sinclair, MD

  • Maine (email)
  • Ivy Koufie

  • Maryland (email)
  • Alejandro Necochea, MD

  • Massachusetts (email)
  • Norris Kamo (acting)

  • Michigan (email)
  • Michael Oleyar, MD

  • Minnesota (email)
  • Nate Bahr, MD

  • Mississippi (email)
  • Persharon Dixon, MD

  • Missouri (email)
  • Hope Tinker, MD

  • Montana (email)
  • Meg Sarnecki, MD

  • Nebraska (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • Nevada (email)
  • Arezo Fathie, MD
  • Tanvir Hossain, MD

  • New Hampsire (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • New Jersey (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • New Mexico (email)
  • Erin Corriveau, MD
  • Rishi Menon, MD

  • New York (email)
  • (see regional directors above)

  • North Carolina (email)
  • Stephen Gamboa, MD
  • Eleanor Greene, MD

  • North Dakota (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

  • Ohio (email)
  • Arthur Lavin, MD (Cleveland)
  • Gary Leroy, MD (Dayton)
  • Don Nguyen, MD (Dayton)

  • Oklahoma (email)
  • Boyd Shook, MD

  • Oregon (email)
  • Nathan Boddie, MD

  • Pennsylvania (email)
  • Christopher Hughes, MD

  • Rhode Island (email)
  • Nirali Bora, MD (acting)

  • South Carolina (email)
  • Tracy Nelson, MD

  • South Dakota (email)
  • Nancy Babbitt, MD

  • Tennessee (email)
  • Carol Duh, MD

  • Texas (email)
  • Robert Luedecke, MD
  • Anna Tran, MD

  • Utah (email)
  • Scott Poppen, MD MPA

  • Virginia (email)
  • Lindsay Dow

  • Vermont (email)
  • Rebecca Jones, MD

  • Washington (email)
  • Lisa Plymate, MD

  • West Virginia (email)
  • Zarpash Babar, MD

  • Wisconsin (email)
  • Jan Sarnecki, MD

  • Wyoming (email)
  • No state director yet Apply

Click on the map to see our regional directors, state directors, and institutional point people.

  • STORIES EDITOR
  • Ina Roy-Faderman, MD MPH email

  • WEBMASTER
  • Conen Morgan email

Strategic Council

  • Jay Bhatt, DO MPH email
  • Asaf Bitton, MD email
  • Rishi Manchanda, MD email
  • Rahul Rajkumar, MD JD email

Senior Advisors

  • Whitney Addington, MD
  • President Emeritus, The American College of Physicians

  • Eli Adashi, MD
  • Professor of Medical Science,
  • Former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences,
  • Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

  • Victor Dzau, MD
  • Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University
  • President and CEO, Duke University Health System

  • John C. Lewin, MD
  • Chief Executive Officer, American College of Cardiology

  • Jacob Hacker, Ph.D.
  • Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University
  • Fellow, New America Foundation

  • Dan Morhaim, MD
  • Deputy Majority Leader, Maryland House of Delegates
  • Faculty, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

  • Michael A. Newman, M.D., F.A.C.P.
  • Clinical Professor of Medicine
  • George Washington University Medical Center

  • Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Professor of Internal Medicine,
  • Human Genetics and Public Health Director,
  • Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

  • Phillip Pizzo, MD
  • Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine

  • Harold Pollack, PhD
  • Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration,
  • Faculty Chair,
  • Center for Health Administration Studies
  • University of Chicago


  • Irwin Redlener, MD
  • Professor of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness
  • President, Children's Health Fund


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