Norbert Goldfield, M.D. is Executive Director of Healing Across the Divides. Dr. Goldfield is a practicing internist at a community health center. He has helped form several volunteer organizations including Hampshire Health Access and the Palestinian Medical Access Partnership, an organization devoted to providing access to care for Palestinian children for needed surgeries in the United States and Europe. Dr Goldfield also works as an applied researcher in the development of tools for payment of health services and measuring quality of care. His most recent books are National Health Reform, American Style and Delivering High Quality, and Cost-Effective Care to All: The Scientific and Political Ingredients for Success.