The hearing will showcase the National Health Service Corps, the Teaching Health Center program, medical schools focused on primary care and care provided by nurse practitioners, according to a news release.
The following witnesses are scheduled to testify:
• Rebecca Spitzgo — Health Resources and Services Administration associate administrator of the bureau of clinician recruitment and service and director of the National Health Service Corps.
• George S. Rust, MD, MPH — Professor of family medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta) and co-director of the National Center for Primary Care.
• Dan Hawkins — senior vice president of public policy and research for the National Association of Community Health Centers (Washington, D.C.).
• Paul R. G. Cunningham, MD, FACS — dean and senior associate vice chancellor for medical affairs at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University (Greenville, N.C.).
• Deborah Wachtel, NP, MPH — president of the Vermont Nurse Practitioner Association and Vermont state representative for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
• Bruce Koeppen, MD, PhD — founding dean of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University (Hamden, Conn.).
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