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Quentin
Young, MD
Dr.
Young is a practicing internist in Hyde Park, a Clinical Professor
of preventive Medicine at the University
of Illinois Medical Center and Senior Attending Physician
at Michael
Reese Hospital. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served
as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook
County Hospital, where he helped establish the Department
of Occupational Medicine.
In
addition to his distinguished career as a physician, Dr. Young
has been a leader in public health policy and medical and social
justice issues. In 1998, he had the special distinction of serving
as President of the American
Public Health Association and in 1997 was inducted as a
Master of the American
College of Physicians. In 1980, Dr. Young founded the Chicago
based Health
& Medicine Policy Research Group, of which he is currently
Chairman. Health & Medicine is a non-profit organization
created to be an advocate for the health care needs of the poor
and underserved in Chicago. Dr. Young is also the National Coordinator
of Physicians
for a National Health Program (PNHP), a Chicago based organization
of over 9,000 physicians who support single payer national health
insurance. He has served as Chairman of the American College
of Physicians' Subcommittee on Human Rights and Medical Practice
and has been a member of both the Humana-Michael Reese Medical
Board and the American College of Physicians Health and Public
Policy Committee. Every other Tuesday morning, Dr. Young hosts
"Public Affairs" on WBEZ,
Chicago public radio. Dr. Young has chosen to limit his medical
practice in order to spend more time fighting the corporate
takeover of medicine in America.
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