Danny McCormick, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Division of Social and Community Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance. A practicing general internist and health services researcher, Dr. McCormick’s research has encompassed several areas of inquiry including the evaluation of access to and quality of medical care for disadvantaged populations (the uninsured, immigrants, prisoners and veterans), physician support for alternative models of health care financing, public disclosure of health plan performance, the impact of industry funding on the design of pharmaceutical trials, media reporting on conflicts of interest in such trials and the impact of the Massachusetts health care reform on access to care. He also teaches a month long intensive course on research-based physician advocacy. He served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC and a staff member of United States Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions under Senator Edward M. Kennedy. On the committee his portfolio included health care financing and insurance coverage, health information technology and racial and ethnic disparities in health.