Speakers 

David Keely, M.D.,  is a family medicine and public health physician who has been practicing in South Carolina for the past 42 years. He is a  consultant on community-level public health and wellness projects, especially ones that promote evidence-based, "common-sense," regional and community level policy, environment, and systems change for a  healthier America in the 21st Century. His focus areas over the course of his career have been tobacco product use prevention and cessation support, along with childhood obesity mitigation. 

Over the past ten years, Dr. Keely has become a health activist in the area of healthcare system reform in the United States. He currently is President of Healthcare for All - South Carolina, a state-wide chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program national organization, whose mission is to bring universal, equitable, sustainable, and affordable health care to the entire U.S. population through an improved and expanded "Medicare for All" single-payer financed model.

Elizabeth A. Brown, Ph.D., M.P.A., is an academic educator and health services researcher who focuses on social determinants of health (SDOH), particularly race/ethnicity, access to primary care, healthcare policy, and chronic conditions. She has published several research articles about Medicaid expansion and its impact on healthcare access. 

Dr. Brown is the Health Policy Director for the League of Women Voters of the Charleston Area and serves as the Co-Chair of the State League’s Healthcare Work Group. She is a member of AcademyHealth, which is the national Health Services Research (HSR) organization. She served on AcademyHealth's State Health Research Interest Group Advisory Committee (2019-2021). 

Dr. Brown was a Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fellow (2015-2018) and was recognized for her scholarly work by both AcademyHealth and MUSC. In 2021, she was awarded MUSC President’s Values in Action Award for Respect.

Dr. Brown received her undergraduate degree in English-Journalism from Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina, and her Ph.D. in Health & Rehabilitation Science (health services research) from MUSC. 

Lynn Engelberg Glenn Ph.D., APRN-C, is an assistant professor at the Augusta University College of Nursing, an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse for the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Institute of Public and Preventive Health, and a Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner, Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic. 

After graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1987 and then in 1992 earning a MSN from University of Pennsylvania in the middle of the AIDS crisis, she quickly found a passion for the care of persons living with chronic disease. She transitioned from acute care to outpatient care setting and has since worked for the past 30 years providing primary care to rural, underserved and uninsured adults. She provides free breast and cervical exams for the Best Chance Network, a CDC funded program for low income and uninsured women in South Carolina. 

In 2020, she began working at Augusta University in the midst of another health crisis—COVID, after graduating from University of Missouri-Columbia  PhD in Nursing program. She has mentored several advanced practice nursing students and serves on the Advanced Practice Nursing Task Force for UAPRN of Georgia.  Currently,  she is a board member for Family Counseling Center in Augusta, GA that provides mental health services to uninsured adults in the CSRA area. Dr. Glenn’s primary professional service objective is to advocate for equitable access to health care among underserved populations. 

Paul DeMarco, M.D.,  was raised in Charleston, SC. He attended college at the University of Virginia and medical school at USC School of Medicine in Columbia, then returned to UVA to complete a residency and chief residency in general internal medicine. He became interested in the uninsured as a resident and, along with many others, helped start the Charlottesville Free Clinic. He served as the first president of the clinic’s board from 1992-1993. 

Dr. DeMarco currently practices for HopeHealth, the community health center serving Florence and Williamsburg counties. Caring for patients in the Pee Dee has strengthened his conviction about the need for universal health care in America. 

Dr. DeMarco is a board member of Marion County Habitat for Humanity, the Marion County Library  System, and the Eastern Carolina Community Foundation. He is married and has two adult children.