Kweisi Mfume;
Statement on
Healthcare.

"In 2010 he completed 12 years of service as a member of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees and has been previously named “Marylander of the Year” by both the Baltimore Sun newspaper and Maryland Magazine. In 2010 and 2011, he served as Executive Director of the National Medical Association (NMA) founded in 1895 as the nation’s oldest African American Medical Association promoting the collective interests of physicians and patients throughout the United States. Following his role there in 2011 he functioned as a corporate business consultant to AT&T of North America. Later in 2011 he was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as a member on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health. He concluded his four year term of federal service to the NIH in 2014. From 2013 to 2018 Mfume lead an NIH funded team of researchers in developing ways to close the gaps between policy and science to reduce health disparities as the Managing Director and Principle Investigator for the Health Policy Research Consortium in Maryland. He also served concurrently as Chief Health Equity Officer and a member of the Board for CTIS (Capital Technologies Information Systems) in Rockville, MD... He remains a constant advocate for bi-partisan political cooperation on social, economic, educational and healthcare issues." (mfumeforcongress.com)