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Committed to affordable health care for all West Virginians... and doing something about it!

About Us

West Virginians for Affordable Health Care is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization under IRC 501(c)(4) organized in November, 2005 by a diverse group of individuals concerned about the rising cost of health care and health care insurance coverage.  We are funded by membership dues, public donations, and grants. No member is paid for serving on our Board of Directors.  Read our Guiding Principles.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dan Foster

Dan Foster, MD,  President

Retired surgeon and currently a physician administrator at CAMC and a member of the West Virginia State Senate

Sam Hickman

Sam Hickman, Vice President

Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers West Virginia Chapter  

David Forinash

David Forinash,
Secretary

Retired health care administrator and former Deputy Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

Sally Richardson

Sally K. Richardson, Treasurer

Exec. Dir. of the WVU Institute for Health Policy Research, former dir. of the Ctr. for Medicaid and State Operations for the Health Care Financing Administration

Perry Bryant

Perry Bryant, Executive Director

 

Beth Baldwin

Beth Baldwin

Nurse Practitioner and Chair of the West Virginia Nurses Association’s Advance Practice Nurses Congress

Rachel DashRachel Dash, ACSW*

Rachel represents the Temple Israel and is an Associated Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at WVU’s School of Medicine

Barbara Fleischauer

Barbara Fleischauer

Member from Monongahela County, West Virginia House of Delegates

Rev. Mr. Todd Garland

Rev. Mr. Todd Garland*

A deacon in the Catholic Church and Director of Justice and Life Office for the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

Dale Lee

Dale Lee*

President, West Virginia Education Association

John Lukens

John Lukens

Retired corporate attorney and current volunteer for Legal Aid Society of West Virginia

not picturedBrannon Merritt

Recent graduate of Tulane University with a Masters in Public Health.  Now working with Birth-to-Three program for W. Va Public Health.

Sherry McKinney

Sherri McKinney*

Political Director for SEIU District 1199 for West Virginia and Kentucky

Clif Moore

Clif Moore

West Virginia House of Delegates Member from McDowell County.

Rev. James Patterson

Rev. James Patterson

Executive Director, Partnership of African-American Churches

Kenny Perdue

Kenny Perdue

President of the West Virginia AFL-CIO

George Pickett

Dr. George Picket

Former Director of the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health

Margaret Chapman Pomponio

Margaret Chapman Pomponio

Community leader   

Renate Pore

Renate Pore

Staff member of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy and former Director of the Governor’s Cabinet on Children and Families

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Craig Robinson

CEO of Cabin Creek Clinic

Tom Sims

Tom Simms

Retired state health department official

Emily Spieler

Emily Spieler

Dean and Edwin Hadley Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts and former Commissioner of the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Fund

Gary Zuckett

Gary Zuckett*

West Virginia Citizens Action Group staff member

* Organizational Board Member