Michael Painter Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Physician, attorney and health policy advocate, Michael is Managing Director, Programs, at Nia Tero, working with Indigenous peoples around the world to nurture and support Indigenous guardianship of Earth’s vital ecosystems. Michael is originally from Oklahoma. He is a proud, enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. He works enthusiastically but with.

Princeton, NJ

• Physician, attorney, and advocate for a healthy future for all, Michael Painter has been a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since 2005. To Michael, a healthy future is one where humans.
• At RWJF described as a visionary and an intellectual engine. Reputation as an intellectual risk-taker with broad ranging curiosity and avid collaborator. Leads colleagues into new, uncharted areas fearlessly with good.
• Tireless and relentless dedication to nurturing health equity.
• Areas of inquiry have included value transformation in health care, health data infrastructure, adoption of electronic health records, health adisparities, artificial intelligence in health, climate change and health.
• Passionate about working for and with Indigenous people.
• RWJF liaison to TED, TEDMED and Skoll World Forum. Co-host for two globally live-streamed TEDMED sessions, 2016, Palm Springs, CA. Member of TEDMED Editorial Advisory Board.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Duties with Senator Frist included drafting and negotiating legislation, developing health policy strategies, coordinating stakeholder input, preparing for hearings, drafting speeches, opinion letters and press.
• Lead staff person for Senator Frist’s Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004.
• Outreach regarding the Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004.
• Planned and moderated Senate Republican Conference Minority Health Quality Forum—Forum participants included U.S. Senators and agency leaders from Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, NIH, AHRQ and others.
• Major drafting and preparation role for Sen. Frist’s 2003 “Shattuck Lecture” and subsequent New England Journal of Medicine article, “Health Care in the 21st Century” without attribution.
• Major drafting role on “Overcoming Disparities in U.S. Health Care,” published in Health Affairs with attribution.

• Member of Seattle Indian Health Board—Board of Directors—October 1992 through March 1995
• Board Representative to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Summit on Native American Health Care Reform, Washington, D.C. (March 15-16, 1993).
• Alternate Commissioner on Seattle Indian Services Commission (January 1994-March 1995). Resident Physician—July 1995 through June 1998.
• Established primary care practice based at SIHB
• Lead for Ryan White funding to develop clinic’s HIV team, including dedicated RN care manager, patient registry and infectious disease specialist referral link for clinic’s HIV patients. Attending Physician—August 1998.
• Practice included adult, pediatric and obstetric medicine and teaching of medical residents and students.

Associate attorney-corporate real estate transactions.

Doctor Of Medicine - Md, Medicine

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Ba, Economics And Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude