Dr. Jim Bailey is leading Healthy City Town Halls across the country to encourage people to join the movement to Reclaim Health Care that Heals. The Town Hall will get people in Seattle talking about how we can demand and get health care that truly heals for our community, our families, and ourselves at a price we all can afford. With all the recent debate about health reform, Americans are eager to discover the path to reclaiming their broken healthcare system and a brighter future for America in the process.

At the Healthy City Town Hall – Seattle at Island Books, our three panelists will present their perspectives about what is really happening in health reform. They will discuss the main ways Americans can demand and get health care that truly heals. This Healthy City Town Hall will offer people a way to understand the real forces driving American medicine and show them how to demand and get health care that truly heals for themselves, their families, and their neighbors

Our panelists are Drs. Jim Bailey, Paula Houston, and Tom Staiger.

Dr. Jim Bailey is a physician and professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he holds the Robert S. Pearce Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, cares for the sick, and teaches doctors in training. He directs the Center for Health System Improvement, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to demonstrating how we can best improve health care for everyday Americans. His research appears in many peer-reviewed medical journals, including JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine. His novel, The End of Healing: A Journey through the Underworld of AmericanMedicine, earned a Benjamin Franklin award for popular fiction. His young doctor-protagonist journeys through the healthcare underworld to uncover the roots of corruption in American medicine and discovers how to stand up for health care that heals.

Dr. Paula Houston is Director of Healthcare Equity for UW Medicine, the healthcare system of the University of Washington. She recently served as CEO of Sound Generations in Seattle, the largest non-profit in the state providing services and programs to seniors, adults with disabilities and those who care for them. She spent 8 years as Executive Director for the Meredith Mathews East Madison YMCA, was the Clinic Manager at Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center, part of the community health clinic system in Seattle and spent 7 years with Public Health, Seattle & King County as interim Division Manager for the Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and District Administrator for the Central Region Special Health Services. In her career, she has championed diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in order to improve services to and outcomes for our most vulnerable and marginalized populations.

Dr. Tom Staiger is is a Professor in University of Washington School of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine. He has been the Medical Director of the University of Washington Medical Center since 2008. He has extensive experience in operational quality improvement. He is active in the Society of General Internal Medicine and is past chair of the society’s Health Policy and Clinical Practice Committees. His academic interests include evaluating the role of anticipatory systems in improving safety in healthcare, the diagnostic evaluation of low back pain, promoting scholarship in quality improvement and educating physicians regarding leadership and quality improvement.Dr. Bailey will be available to sign their books at the conclusion of the Healthy City Town Hall.

Join our movement to Reclaim Health Care that Heals!