I am a physician with a longstanding interest in single-payer health care reform. I am a graduate of Harvard Medical School and I trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry. I am now an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and also in private practice as a general adult psychiatrist. I have been a member of Physicians for a National Health Program since the 1980's. In 2008 I submitted a resolution to the Hawaii Medical Association endorsing single-payer, and to my amazement it was adopted (by a large margin) in March 2009. This led to running for office and I am now President-Elect of HMA. Over the past 3 years, I have been speaking on single-payer at every opportunity, including several Grand Rounds for physicians and several talks for the general public. I am a member of the One Payer States forum for single-payer advocates at the state level from around the country. On Sept. 1, 2011, I was appointed by Hawaii's Gov. Abercrombie to the Hawaii Health Authority, charged with designing and then running a universal health care system for Hawaii.