Pennsylvania

Contact Information

Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care
Website: http://phillyhealth.blogspot.com/

Media Contact

Walter Tsou
215.242.6272
macman2@aol.com

Dr. Tsou is a nationally known consultant on public health and health care reform. Currently, he is on the visiting faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He was President of the American Public Health Association in 2005. He served as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia from April 2000 to February 2002. Prior to his appointment, he was the founding Deputy Director for Personal Health Services and Medical Director of the Montgomery County (PA) Health Department from 1991-2000. Before 1991, he was the Clinical Director in the Division of Ambulatory Health Services for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He has extensive experience in public health and has lectured widely on public health and health disparities.

He is a founding member of the National Board of Public Health Examiners and the national board of Physicians for a National Health Program. His medical degree is from the University of Pennsylvania; his MPH is from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and he has an honorary Doctorate in Medical Sciences from Drexel University.

Tim Lachman
610.642.7110
tim.lachman@tuhs.temple.edu

Dr. Lachman graduated from Antioch College with a BA in Philosophy in 1963. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967, he interned at Pennsylvania Hospital. He was selected for the US Public Health Service, and was stationed for two years on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He was a neurology resident at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital from 1970 until 1973 and a fellow in clinical neurophysiology at the Mass General Hospital from 1973 until 1975.

In 1975, he joined a private practice in the Philadelphia area. He joined the neurology faculty at Hahnemann University from 1978 to 1982, when he returned to solo private practice at Lankenau Hospital. In December, 2006 he became a full-time faculty member in the Department of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine.

Thomas R. Comerci
732.221.5348
trcomerci@verizon.net

Scott Tyson
412.561.7541
styson@pediatricssouth.com

Dr. Scott Tyson, is the CEO of Pediatrics South. He received his training at Columbia University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Tyson completed his residency at Bellevue/Upstate and is board qualified.

Adam Gilden Tsai
215.605.1201
agildentsai@yahoo.com

Dr. Adam Gilden Tsai practices general internal medicine at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he conducts research on obesity and weight loss.

State Organizations Endorsing HR676

• Allegheny County Council, PA
• Erie, PA
• Wilkinsburg, PA
• Chester County Pennsylvania Democratic Committee

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

• AFGE Local 2028, Pittsburgh, PA
• United Electrical Workers Local 506, Erie, PA
• Independent State Store Union, Harrisburg, PA
• United Electrical Workers (UE)
• National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 84, Pittsburgh, PA
• Allegheny County Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Pittsburgh, PA
• Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR), Chapter 20-20, Aliquippa, PA
• Beaver-Lawrence Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Beaver, PA
• Pittsburgh Airman Lodge 1044, International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM), Pittsburgh, PA
• Greater Westmoreland County Labor Council, Greensburg, PA
• Butler County United Labor Council, Butler, PA
• Pittsburgh Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Pittsburgh, PA
• Philadelphia Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Philadelphia, PA
• Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, State Convention, April 6, 2006.
• District 1199P, SEIU, Harrisburg, PA
• Local 544, United Auto Workers (UAW), Fisher Body, West Mifflin, PA
• Local 668, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Harrisburg, PA
• Local 3, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Pittsburgh, PA
• Harrisburg Region Central Labor Council
• United Labor Council of Reading & Berks County
• Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP)