MIKE MAGEE, M.D. is an educator and medical historian on the faculty of President’s College at the University of Hartford. He has held similar roles at a range of academic institutions including the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Jefferson Medical College, and Honorary Master Scholar at the N.Y.U. School of Medicine. He is the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus award recipient from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the 2014 Ignatian Honoree for Professional Achievement from his alma mater, Le Moyne College.
Beginning as a country doctor in western New England, he rose to the highest levels of his profession holding senior executive positions at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and as head of global medical affairs for Pfizer. His career, spanning the last half-century, has included senior leadership posts in universities, hospitals, industry and government. In all of these engagements, his public voice has mirrored his private values, and his reputation as a “disrupter from within” has been well earned and occasionally rewarded.
Mike Magee MD is also a medical journalist whose 1992 “Health Media Code of Ethics” remains the standard guidepost for health leaders communicating in the public sphere. He is the author of Code Blue: Inside the Medical Industrial Complex (Grove Atlantic/2020) which earned a Kirkus star review, editor of the blog HealthCommentary.org, and senior columnist for The Health Care Blog.
His lifetime social activism reflects his Jesuit education and his belief in Federalism, and an active system of “checks and balances.” An optimist with a strong Scot/Irish streak, he believes that “men are really capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice,” but not without engagement, and not without a fight. He is currently leading a campaign for “Divestiture of Tesla” in response to the transgressions of Trump and Musk.
