Dr. Mike McGee

Mike Magee, M.D., is Senior Fellow for Health Policy at the Center for Aging Services Technologies of the American Association of Homes & Services for the Aging and Editor of Health Commentary.org and Healthy-Waters.org. He is well known for his unique perspective on health care and for the championing of patient rights, principled leadership including environmental health, scientific innovation and health system transformation in the United States. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Magee was the host of "Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee," a weekly Internet program covering news and information related to health and health care. The program produced more than 180 segments on topics ranging from obesity to aging and care giving to health insurance and global warming and water conservation. As host of the program, Dr. Magee helped viewers understand the big picture of health and how our health care system works. He is the author 10 books, including Home-Centered Health Care, Positive Leadership and Healthy Waters. Dr. Magee is a member of the National Commission for Quality Long Term Care, chaired by former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He has served formerly as a Senior Fellow in the Humanities to the World Medical Association; a David Rockefeller Fellow; Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College; Honorary Master Scholar at New York University School of Medicine; and Vice President of Science and Medical Advocacy, Pfizer Inc, where he directed the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative. He has provided testimony to Congress, and consulted for the American Medical Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges, and the American Hospital Association. Born on January 20, 1948, Dr. Magee is the son of a house-call-making doctor and one of 12 children. He attended Medical School in Syracuse, NY and did his surgical residency at the University of North Carolina.  He spent 13 years as a country doctor in rural New England before assuming progressive academic and leadership posts, including Senior Vice President of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He and his wife Trish have four children and currently reside in Woodbury, CT.