Munif is a fourth-year medical student at the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences with a passion for primary care and health policy.

Inspired by my friend and mentor David McLanahan and Quentin Young, I helped start our PNHP Washington Chapter in 2004. I am a retired general surgeon and Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the UW School of Medicine. I served as an attending surgeon in General, Burn and Surgical Critical Care at Harborview Medical Center, the Level I Trauma center in Seattle for 28 years from 1991-2019 until retiring in September 2019. Prior to returning to Harborview in 1991, I practiced at a UW affiliated teaching hospital, Pacific Medical Center for 5 years following 6 years of residency training. My surgical career encompassed all phases of trauma and general surgery with an emphasis on GI surgery, abdominal reconstruction, soft tissue infection and critical care. Equally important I focused my career in medical and surgical education, serving as a residency program director for 9 years and a founding head of one of the UW School of Medicine’s Colleges. I am also a co-founder and member of the board of the Washington Chapter and the National Board of PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Program). I have enjoyed working and traveling extensively around the world gaining a broader perspective, having worked for 3 months in rural Haiti, visiting professorships in Japan and China and professional and personal travel in Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Malaysia, Kosovo and Europe. I continue to maintain an active interest in health care reform and medical education, continuing as a faculty lecturer for King County Paramedic Training during retirement and am a co-Medical Director of the annual Seattle King County Clinic. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, skiing, hiking, birding, traveling, boating and kayaking.

I am a retired from a family practice at Harborview Medical Center, our safety net medical center in Seattle, where I cared for a wide variety of patients from the entire spectrum of racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. I am a strong supporter of the ideal that medical care is a human right devoid of the pressures of our current profit- driven health care environment.

My name is Simi Kaur and I am a second-year medical student at Pacific Northwest University and the 2025–2026 president of PNWU’s SNaHP chapter. I earned my Biology degree from the University of Texas at Austin and I’m excited to lead our SNaHP chapter this year as we work toward single-payer healthcare for all and raise awareness about the movement’s mission and goals.

David McLanahan retired from surgical practice in 2006. He spent 25 years in Seattle working at Pacific Medical Center, Providence, and Swedish hospital. During that time he volunteered one day a week at the Country Doctor and International District Community Clinics while also teaching and supervising UW surgical residents, retiring as Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery. In 2005, he travelled to Cuba as part of a medical delegation to look at how its medical services and educational system were set up. Hugh Foy was part of the delegation and upon their return they founded the Washington Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program in 2006. He has served as the Chapter Coordinator ever since and has served on PNHP’s National Board for 4 years in the past and is now an Advisor to the Board.

I retired from my practice of dentistry where I enjoyed over 40 years taking care of patients from all walks of life. Seeing first hand how important dental health and prevention are often overlooked and occasionally result in life threatening illness, I became interested in working with others to establish universal, open access, single payer health care for all.

Dr. Weinberg is a retired pediatrician and has been an advocate for single payer national health coverage since the mid-1980s when she joined Physicians for a National Health Program. Some friends suggested she join the group that was writing a Washington Health Security Trust (WHST) bill. The group became Health Care 2000 to try to get the WHST passed as an initiative to the people. After that campaign was not successful, the group became Health Care for All – Washington. Dr. Weinberg was a member of the Universal Health Care Work Group, whose report led to the Universal Health Care Commission, created by the legislature to come up with a plan for universal coverage.