David McKalip, M.D. is the Founder of Doctors for Patient Freedom, the AMA Take Back the Profession Advisory Group (TBPAG) and recently elected board member of the Florida Medical Association. He is heading an FMA effort to create a new Florida Health System Model. Dr. McKalip is the Vice-President Elect of the Pinellas County Medical Association, President-elect of the Florida Neurosurgical Society, and member of the Florida Medical Association PAC board.  He has been an AMA Alternate Delegate since 2005 and represented Neurosurgery at the Ambulatory Quality Alliance where he was able to ensure that the AQA developed a more transparent due process for decision making.  He is also the author of the policy implemented at the AMA to ensure it “actively opposes” Pay for Performance plans that don’t comply with AMA policy and the author of a key white paper that helped win the debate soon to be submitted to JAMA entitled “Pay for Performance: the Risks to Patients Outweighs the Benefits”.  Dr. McKalip is the Founder and Chair of Cut Taxes Now and Co-Founder and Spokesperson of the Florida Taxpayers Alliance, grassroots organizations in Florida that allowed citizens to insist on and receive 3-9% property tax cuts in Florida in 2007. Dr. McKalip is a practicing Neurosurgeon in St. Petersburg Florida.

Richard B. Warner, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Overland Park, Kansas.  He is the Immediate Past President of the Kansas Medical Society.  He represents the Kansas Medical Society as an Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association.  He serves on the Board of Directors of KaMMCO, the Kansas Medical Mutual Insurance Company. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Kansas Health Insurance Association, which administers the high-risk pool for the State of Kansas.  Dr. Warner has a very strong interest in the issues of health insurance reform, medical inflation, preserving the patient-physician relationship, and encouraging individual responsibility, freedom of choice, and privacy in medicine.  He has written and spoken extensively on these subjects.


Marcy Zwelling-Aamot, M.D. the entrepreneur and founder of Choice Care™, is known for her passion and keen insight. She started her retainer practice just a year ago and is already engaged in educating other physicians in "how to" meet patient needs as a first priority in this financially driven healthcare market place. Dr. "Z" is the past president of the Los Angeles Medical Association and is currently a trustee of the CMA. She has lectured all over the United States on topics ranging from health care financing and politics to DRG management in the hospital setting. Her audiences include patients, health care providers, administrators, politicians, and the public at large. She has been published in many major publications including the Los Angeles Times, Long Beach Press Telegram, "10… things" by Larry Elder, Long Beach Business Journal, Southern Ca. Physician, New England Journal of Medicine, and Wall Street Journal.