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The Galen Institute has been and remains on the cutting edge in providing ideas and studies to educate the public, opinion leaders, and legislators about the dangers of further government-control over our health sector and the benefits of putting consumers in charge of making decisions about the health coverage that is best for them and their families.
'''Officers and Trustees'''
'''Grace-Marie Turner'''
Founder, President and Trustee, Galen Institute, Inc.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform.
She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform that transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, consumer-driven marketplace in the health sector.
Grace-Marie speaks extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including at the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and the Gregorian University at the Vatican in Rome.
She testifies regularly before Congress and advises the White House, other senior administration officials, governors, and state legislators on health policy.
Grace-Marie just completed a three-year term as a member of the National Advisory Council of Healthcare Research and Quality and recently served as a member of the Medicaid Commission, charged with making recommendations to modernize and improve Medicaid.
Grace-Marie is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group which serves as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop policy recommendations. She is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform and produces a widely-read weekly electronic newsletter, Health Policy Matters. She has been published in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, she has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and on hundreds of radio and television programs in the U.S. She also received the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for Promotion of Consumer Driven Health Care from Consumer Health World.
In the mid-1990s, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. For 12 years, she was president of Arnett & Co., a health policy analysis and communications firm. Her early career was in politics and journalism, where she received numerous awards for her writings on politics and economics.
'''Sewell Hinton Dixon, M.D'''.
Trustee, Galen Institute, Inc.
President, The Dixon Group, Ltd.
Sewell Hinton Dixon, M.D., Treasurer and Trustee of the Galen Institute, brings real-world medical experience to the health policy debate. He is widely recognized for his pioneering work as a cardiovascular surgeon and has brought his expertise and strong belief in free-markets and physician-patient autonomy to inform the health care debate.
Dr. Dixon is president of The Dixon Group, Ltd., a health care consulting firm he established in 1993 and is president of Greenleaf Health Enhancement Systems in Greensboro, N.C. He has worked on health care policy development to provide effective market-based alternatives which enhance individual responsibility and control.
For 20 years prior, he was in the private practice of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was president of his practice corporation for 14 years. Dr. Dixon was an original national investigator for peripheral laser angioplasty, and has authored more than 30 scientific articles. He received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Emory University, and served as Chief Resident in Surgery at Duke University Medical Center.
'''Thomas Campbell Jackson, MPH'''
Secretary and Treasurer, Galen Institute, Inc.
Independent Consultant
Thomas Campbell Jackson is an independent consultant whose background includes over 15 years in health affairs. He has extensive experience in the design and administration of large group health benefits programs. As Director of Health Benefits for the City of New York in the late 1990s, Mr. Jackson was involved in all aspects of a $1.5 billion program providing health coverage for over 1 million municipal employees and retirees, and their dependents.
Mr. Jackson most recently held the position of Senior Fellow at the Institute for SocioEconomic Studies, a private operating foundation in White Plains, NY, that examines issues relating to economic development, poverty, health care reform and the quality of life. Mr. Jackson's work at the Institute centered on research and development of policy proposals for health care reform.
Mr. Jackson's experience also includes work in Professional Relations for New York's largest nonprofit health insurance company, and in Policy Analysis and Legislative Affairs for the City of Boston's Health Benefit and Insurance Division.
Thomas C. Jackson graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1983, and earned a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University in 1998. He is a member, and twice Fellow, of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefits Specialists.
'''Cleta Mitchell, Esq.'''
Vice Chairman, Galen Institute, Inc.
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
Cleta Mitchell is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner LLP as a member of the firm's Public Affairs Practice Group. Ms. Mitchell has more than 30 years of experience in law, politics and public policy. She advises corporations, nonprofit organizations, candidates, campaigns, and individuals on state and federal election and campaign finance law, and compliance issues related to lobbying, ethics and financial disclosure. Ms. Mitchell practices before the Federal Election Commission and similar federal and state enforcement agencies.
Ms. Mitchell was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1976-1984 where she chaired the House Appropriations and Budget Committee. She served on the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Ms. Mitchell was in private law practice in Oklahoma City in litigation and administrative law until 1991 when she became director and general counsel of the Term Limits Legal Institute in Washington, D.C. She litigated cases in state and federal courts nationwide on congressional term limits. She served as co-counsel with former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell in the U.S. Supreme Court case on term limits for members of Congress.
Ms. Mitchell represents numerous Republican candidates, campaigns and members of Congress, including Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), among others. She is legal counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Ms. Mitchell served as co-counsel for the National Rifle Association in the Supreme Court case involving the 2002 federal campaign finance law.
Ms. Mitchell has testified before Congress several times and is a frequent speaker and guest commentator on election law and politics. In 1999, she authored The Rise of America's Two National Pastimes: Baseball and the Law, published by the University of Michigan Law Review.
Ms. Mitchell received her B.A. (high honors, 1973) and J.D. (1975) from the University of Oklahoma. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of Oklahoma, the Supreme Court of the United States and federal district and appellate courts.
