Healthcare experts Chris Koller, Rhode Island's first Health Insurance Commissioner and now the President of the Milbank Fund, and Dr. Michael Fine discuss the hot topic of healthcare and hospitals in post-pandemic Rhode Island.

Dr. Fine will also sign and sell copies of his latest book, On Medicine As Colonialism, and will also have some of his previous titles on hand.

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Michael Fine, MD is an award-winning author, community organizer, public health expert/leader, and family physician. Dr. Fine is the author of On Medicine As Colonialism, which explores the way medicine and healthcare have been used by healthcare profiteers to co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid and extract resources from communities and upend democracy in the U.S. He is also the author of Health Care Revolt; Abundance; The Bull and Other Stories; and Rhode Island Stories. 

Dr. Fine serves as Chief Health Strategist for the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island. He previously served in the Cabinet of Governor Lincoln Chafee as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health from 2011-2015. Dr. Fine’s short stories have been published monthly on RINewsToday.com since 2018 and reach an audience of 15,000-20,000 people every month.

Christopher Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with experience and sound evidence. The Fund fosters state health policy leadership and publishes The Milbank Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal of population health and health policy.

Before joining the Fund, Mr. Koller served the State of Rhode Island as the country’s first Health Insurance Commissioner from 2005 to 2013. He has a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and master’s degrees in religion and public/private management from Yale University. Mr. Koller is a professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University.