Michael Fine MD is Rhode Island's best known family physician. He is a community organizer, an author, a nationally known health policy expert, and the Managing Director of Health AccessRI (www.healthaccessri.com), the first of its kind in the nation network of family practices that provide affordable primary care to people without employer provided health insurance.
For
the last ten years, he has been the top ranked family physician in Rhode Island
Monthly's Best Doctors in RI series. Fine's 2007 book The Nature of Health
(www.thenatureofhealthbook.com),
co-authored
with James Peters, is now in its third printing from Radcliffe Publishing
(UK). He speaks widely across the US, mostly to physicians and health policy
audiences. He was on the National Health Policy Council for the Obama Campaign
and Transition, and was an invited guest at The White House in 1993, for the
unveiling of the Clinton Health Care Reform proposal, after having participated
in its development, and was an invited guest at President-Elect Obama's Inauguration,
in recognition of those roles.