Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  The Roosevelt Institution's second conference in Hyde Park, NY: 2006. Photo by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway." — Eleanor Roosevelt    Lawrence Fried Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): School: Cornell University Member of: Expo Cocktail Reception Health Policy Coordination Roosevelt Rx Contact info: Login Email:  lawrence.fried(AT)gmail.com Policy interests: Healthcare, Sexuality and LGBTQ issues I am finishing my first-year of medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine, located in Philadelphia, PA, and expect to receive my M.D. in May, 2011. Last year, I worked with the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. While there, I interviewed various individuals who were infected with tuberculosis, in hopes of isolating the different strains. Prior to becoming a fellow of the Roosevelt Institution, i served on the Tompkins County Healthcare Task Force's healthcare panel. I educated local residents about the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit plan, which was just being rolled out. I have presented my original research, "Looking to Individual State Health Policies to Explain Variatinos in Uninsured Populations Between States: A Statistical Analysis" at the Roosevelt's First Annual Expo in Washington, DC. This research was also published in the Roosevelt's "25 Ideas for Working Families." I initially became very interested in access to healthcare and the intrinsic inequities associated with it while working at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City several years ago. Shortly thereafter, I then went to London, UK, to see what I could learn from the British single-payer system. I then incorporated my findings into an internship that I arranged with a non-partisan organization located in Washington, DC. This internsihp allowed me to attend weekly briefings to Congressional staffmembers and educate them on various current issues in healthcare.  While working as an intern, I conducted the research which I later presented at the Expo, through the Cornell-in-Washington program.  The abstract for this report can be accessed elsewhere on the Roosevelt's website. My primary finding was that states using a combination of high-risk pools and tax-incentives.  The other component of healthcare that I would like to address is current health policies being created and implemented today. One such example is that  of the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit. Since working in DC, I have followed this issue from the days just before its implementation, as I attended press briefings and Congressional hearings on the subject. I have also helped beneficiaries of the Medicare Part D plan sign up for the plan most tailored to their needs. I received an M.S. in Biology from Adelphi University in August, 2007. Prior to this, I graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a B.S. in Biology, in May 2006.   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359