More than 150 medical students from five medical schools in Michigan met with lawmakers on Tuesday to urge support for more graduate medical education (GME) funding in the state budget, scope of practice concerns, and other issues related to physician supply and availability. Schools represented included: Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and Western Michigan University Homer Stryker, MD, School of Medicine.
Students met with the following legislators (or staff):
House of Representatives:
- Representative Brian Banks (D – Detroit)
- Representative John Bizon, MD (R-Battle Creek)
- Representative Charles Brunner (D-Bay City)
- Representative Wendell Byrd (D-Detroit)
- Representative Mike Callton (R-Nashville); Health Policy Chair
- Representative Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit)
- Representative Triston Cole (R-Mancelona)
- Representative Kevin Cotter (R-Mt. Pleasant); Speaker of the House
- Representative Laura Cox (R-Livonia)
- Representative Kathy Crawford (R-Novi)
- Representative Gretchen Driskell (D-Saline)
- Representative Jeff Farrington (R-Utica)
- Representative Anthony Forlini (R-Harrison Township)
- Representative Daniela Garcia (R-Holland)
- Representative Christine Greig (D-Farmington Hills)
- Representative Jon Hoadley (D-Kalamazoo)
- Representative Martin Howrylak (R-Troy)
- Representative Brandt Iden (R-Oshtemo)
- Representative Jeff Irwin (D-Detroit)
- Representative Bradford Jacobsen (R-Oxford)
- Representative Tim Kelly (R-Saginaw Township)
- Representative Klint Kesto (R-Commerce Township)
- Representative Marilyn Lane (D-Mount Clemens)
- Representative Dan Lauwers (R-Brockway Township)
- Representative Bill Lavoy (D-Monroe)
- Representative Frank Liberati (D-Dearborn Heights)
- Representative Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-Ionia)
- Representative Michael McCready (R-Bloomfield Hills)
- Representative Kristy Pagan (D-Belleville)
- Representative Phil Potvin (R-Cadillac)
- Representative Amanda Price (R-Park Township)
- Representative Sarah Roberts (D-St. Clair Shores)
- Representative Rose Mary Robinson (D-Detroit)
- Representative Jim Runestad (R-White Lake)
- Representative Sam Singh (D-East Lansing); Democratic Floor Leader
- Representative Pat Somerville (R-New Boston)
- Representative Alberta Talabi (D-Detroit)
- Representative Jim Tedder (R-Clarkston)
- Representative Jim Townsend (D-Oak Park)
- Representative Henry Vaupel (R-Fowlerville)
- Representative Michael Webber (R-Rochester Hills)
- Representative Robert Wittenberg (D-Royal Oak)
- Representative Henry Yanez (D-Sterling Heights)
- Representative Adam Zemke (D-Ann Arbor)
Senate:
- Senator Darwin Booher (R-Evart)
- Senator Jack Brandenburg (R-Harrison Township)
- Senator Patrick Colbeck (R-Canton)
- Senator Judy Emmons (R-Sheridan)
- Senator Vincent Gregory (D-Southfield)
- Senator Morris Hood III (D-Detroit)
- Senator Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-Taylor)
- Senator Ken Horn (R-Frankenmuth)
- Senator Joe Hune (R-Hamburg)
- Senator Bert Johnson (D-Detroit)
- Senator David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights)
- Senator Marty Knollenberg (R-Troy)
- Senator Mike Kowall (R-White Lake); Republic Floor Leader
- Senator Peter MacGregor (R-Rockford)
- Senator Jim Marleau (R-Lake Orion)
- Senator Arlan Meekhof (R-West Olive); Senate Majority Leader
- Senator Margaret O’Brien (R-Portage)
- Senator Phil Pavlov (R-St. Clair Township)
- Senator Tory Rocca (R-Sterling Heights)
- Senator Wayne Schmidt (R-Traverse City)
- Senator Rebecca Warren (D-Ann Arbor)
- Senator Coleman Young II (D-Detroit)
- Senator Dale Zorn (R-Ida)
