John Barrasso, MD, R-Wyo.

U.S. Senator

John Barrasso, MD, was sworn in to the United States Senate in 2007 having represented the people of Natrona County in the Wyoming State Senate from 2003-2007. He is the third-ranking member in the Senate Republican leadership as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.

Reilly Bealer

AMA GRAF

Reilly Bealer is currently serving as the AMA Government Relations and Advocacy Fellow for the 2020-2021 term with AMA Division of Legislative Counsel. She has worked on a multitude of advocacy issue areas including public health infrastructure, immigration, Medicare, native health, maternal mortality, telemedicine, health equity and accessibility to care.

Lindsey Brill, JD

AMA Congressional Affairs

Lindsey Brill has been a lobbyist with AMA since January 2007. She has focused on public health in areas of maternal mortality and diabetes prevention, telehealth coverage, and physician payment issues such as surprise medical billing and evaluation and management code changes while covering the Senate Finance and HELP Committees.

Jennifer Brown, JD

AMA Div. of Legislative Counsel

Jennifer Brown advances AMA’s legislative and regulatory agenda by drafting advocacy materials related to maternal mortality and morbidity, federal fraud and abuse laws that apply to physicians, physician-owned hospitals, prior authorization, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, cybersecurity, physician industry relations/Sunshine Act, and Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.

Kimberly Chernoby, MD, JD

Health Policy Fellow

Kimberly Chernoby is a Health Policy Fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions under Chair Murray. She was the first graduate of the MD/JD program at the University of Florida. Her policy interests include women’s health and prescription drug access.

Katherine Dapper works with the AMA Congressional Affairs team to advance the AMA’s legislative agenda by working directly with members of Congress and U.S. senators to further legislative efforts to support providers across the nation on AMA priorities within public health, telehealth, maternal mortality, immigration, data privacy, mental health, and others.

Sharice Davids, D-3rd, Kansas

U.S. Representative

Sharice Davids has served as the U.S. Representative from Kansas's 3rd congressional district since 2019. She became one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress. Rep. Davids has centered her work on putting Kansans first, fighting to limit the influence of special interests and make health care more affordable and accessible to everyone.

Victoria Gordon, an OMSIII at Kansas City University, is completing clinicals at Lee Health. She recently finished a year pursuing research and teaching anatomy at her institution. She is the Medical Student Digital Fellow and served as AMA-MSS MERC chair, Region 2 secretary, and 2020 Ambassador Program Steering Committee member.

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA

AMA Immediate Past President

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, was the 174th president of the American Medical Association, and the organization’s first African American woman to hold this position. Dr. Harris has diverse experience as a private practicing physician, county public health director, patient advocate and medical society lobbyist.

Marilyn J. Heine, MD

AMA Council on Legislation

Marilyn J. Heine, MD, FACEP, FACP, FCPP is an emergency medicine and hematology oncology physician in southeast Pennsylvania and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Drexel University COM in Philadelphia. A tenacious advocate for physicians and patients, Dr. Heine serves as chair of the AMA Council on Legislation.

Robin Kelly, D-2nd Ill.

U.S. Representative

Robin Kelly has dedicated her career to public service to advocate for Illinois families. Since elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District in 2013, she has worked to expand economic opportunity, community wellness, and public safety, championing initiatives to generate job growth, reduce health disparities, and end gun violence.

Dana Lichtenburg

AMA Congressional Affairs

Dana Lichtenberg is assistant director for AMA Congressional Affairs where her primary assignments include the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Medicare, public health and digital health.  She joined the AMA in 2011. Prior to AMA, she was legislative director for former Congressman Bart Gordon (D-6th, Tennessee).

Jason Marino has been with the AMA on the lobbying team for the last fifteen years and currently serves as director of Congressional Affairs. Jason and his team work to advance the AMA’s legislative agenda in both the House of Representatives and Senate.

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH

AMA Chief Equity Officer

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH currently serves as the chief health equity officer and group vice president for the AMA where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading the Center for Health Equity.

Patty Murray, D-Washington

U.S. Senator

As Washington state’s senior senator, Patty Murray has a proven track record spanning more than two decades of fighting for Washington state families in the United States Senate. Serving as a member of senate Democratic leadership since 2007, she has established herself as a tireless and effective leader on many issues.

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD

Biden COVID-19 advisory board

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, is co-chair of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of internal medicine, public health and management at Yale, and is one of the nation’s foremost experts on disparities in health care access.

Kim Schrier, MD, D-8th Wash.

U.S. Representative

Kim Schrier represents Washington’s 8th Congressional District. Prior to being elected to Congress, she spent her career as a pediatrician helping families navigate the health care system. In Congress, the congresswoman uses this expertise to inform her work on issues that improve the lives, health and well-being of children.

Fawn Sharp

President, NCAI

Fawn R. Sharp serves as the 23rd president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native tribal government organization in the country. Sharp is the third woman to hold the position of NCAI president.

Chris Sherin

AMA Congressional Affairs

Chris Sherin currently serves as an assistant director in the Division of Congressional Affairs at the AMA. In this capacity, Chris primarily handles House Democratic leadership and Democrat House Ways and Means Committee members.

Danielle Turnipseed

AMA Federal Affairs

Danielle Turnipseed is assistant director in the Division of Federal Affairs at the AMA. She ensures AMA policies and positions are brought to appropriate government officials in the administration and agencies including Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), health care associations and coalitions.