Join Us For This Special Screening and Q&A

Wednesday, January 20th

(1-Year Anniversary of 1st US Covid-19 Cases)

3PM PT/6PM ET

Introduction by Jeff Reichert

Directors Yung Chang, Annie Katsura Rollins In Conversation Dr. Virginia Brady (Harvard)

Moderated by James Roosevelt III, Co-chair DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee

About PANDEMIC19

PANDEMIC19 captures the story of three doctors in the United States fighting COVID-19 as the chaos of the pandemic permeates outside the frame of their video confessions. 

About Yung Chang, Director 

Yung Chang is the director of Up the Yangtze (2007), China Heavyweight (2012), The Fruit Hunters (2012) and This is Not A Movie (2019). He is currently completing a screenplay for his first dramatic feature, Eggplant, which was selected to participate in the prestigious Sundance Labs. Chang’s films have premiered at international lm festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and IDFA and have played theatrically in cinemas around the world. Up the Yangtze was one of the top-grossing documentary releases in 2008. In 2013, China Heavyweight became the most widely screened social-issue documentary in Chinese history with an official release in 200 Mainland Chinese cinemas. His most recent feature, This is Not a Movie, world premiered at the Toronto Int’l Film Festival in 2019 and is traveling cinemas and festivals. He is a member of the DGC, WGC, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. More info: https://www.yungfilms.com 

About Annie Katsura Rollins, Co-Director 

Annie Katsura Rollins is a researcher, artist, and educator. Combining a BFA degree in performance from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA in Scenography from the University of Minnesota, and an interdisciplinary PhD from Montreal’s Concordia University, Rollins’ artistic work combines storytell- ing with deeply researched phenomena in modern society and cultures. She was named valedictorian for her PhD dissertation (2019), which focused on the fragility of traditional performance forms in modern China. Rollins has received a Fulbright Fellowship, the Confucius Institute Joint PhD Research Fellowship and a Canadian SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, among many other awards, for her research. Recent presentation venues include Toronto’s AGO, The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, Luther College, and Bucknell University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut and has two book chapters forthcoming this year. 

More info: https://www.anniekatsurarollins.com 

About Dr. Virginia Brady, Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow

Dr. Virginia Brady is currently faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Originally from New York, Ginny received degrees in neuroscience and classics at Brown University before attending Tufts Medical School. At Tufts both her clinical performance and humanistic skills were recognized through induction into AOA, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and the Janet Glascow Memorial Achievement Citation. Ginny went on to complete an internal medicine-pediatrics residency at Yale and was named chief resident in 2014-2015. She subsequently completed a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Yale. Her passion for teaching was recognized through the Fellow of the Year Award at Yale in 2016. Since joining the faculty at BIDMC in 2018, Ginny has continued to pursue her passion for medical education. She was quickly named the MICU clerkship and capstone director, as well as Director of Critical Care Education, through which she oversees the educational needs of residents, fellows and medical students. She has also been the co-director of the integration track for Harvard Medical Students and completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education in 2020. Most recently, she has been named the Associate Program Director for the internal medicine residency program. Despite being a Boston transplant and working for the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox, Dr. Brady is a die-hard Yankee fan. Besides baseball, Dr. Brady enjoys playing basketball, softball and flag football and solving puzzles and escape rooms.

About Jeff Reichert

Jeff Reichert is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He produced Netflix’s THE AMERICAN FACTORY and it won the Best Documentary Feature at Academy Awards in 2020. His first feature documentary GERRYMANDERING, premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival where it was named one of the best of the festival by New York Magazine. In 2013, Jeff directed documentary film REMOTE AREA MEDICAL, about the annual three-day "pop-up" medical clinic organized by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) in Bristol, Tennessee's NASCAR speedway. The film premiered at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and released theatrically. He is the co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot, a film critique magazine that currently affiliates to the Museum of the Moving Image.

About James Roosevelt III, Moderator

Jim advises health care payers, providers, trade associations, and service providers on business matters, legislative and regulatory issues, governance, and personnel matters. He regularly represents medical device and medical process startups, including with respect to telehealth, artificial intelligence, and treatment utilizing legal psychedelics. He is also a national speaker and author on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid policy, and Social Security.

For more than 10 years, Jim was CEO of Tufts Health Plan, where he led a turnaround that nearly doubled the membership and achieved consistent profitability while attaining #1 ranking in the United States from the national accrediting organization. He was previously in-house General Counsel and was a former partner in the Health Care Practice Group of Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston. Before joining Tufts Health Plan, he served as Associate Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration.

In 2016, Jim was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He continues as a clinical instructor in the Public Health and Community Medicine Department of Tufts University School of Medicine.

Public policy and politics are Jim's personal passions. He co-chairs the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee and is volunteer legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He is a trustee of the Cambridge Public Library and the Cambridge Community Foundation. He has co-chaired Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo's Healthcare Leaders Task Force on Health Care Cost Growth, and he co-chaired the Massachusetts Hospital Association's work group on access to behavioral health care.

Jim and his wife, Ann, enjoy living near their daughters and their husbands and three grandsons in Cambridge, MA, as well as visiting their daughter, her husband and their newest grandson in Washington, DC.

Education

-Harvard Law School (J.D.)

-Harvard College (B.A.)

-Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program)

Public Service

-Member, FAIR Health, Inc., Board of Directors

-Chair, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Board of Directors

Bar Admissions

-Massachusetts

-Washington, D.C.

Memberships

-American Health Lawyers Association

-Boston Bar Association, Health Law Committee

-American Bar Association, Health Law Section

-Massachusetts Hospital Association, Life Member

Honors

-AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

-Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts, Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree (Dr. of Laws, 2011)

-William James College, Newton, Massachusetts, Honorary Degree (Dr. of Humane Letters, 2017)

-Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© under Health Care Law