

As clinicians serving communities across Virginia’s Fifth District, we see the consequences of a broken healthcare system every day. Patients delay care because they can’t afford a copay. Insurance companies override clinical decisions. Rural families lose access to primary care and maternal health clinics.
Tom Perriello understands the importance of healthcare access and affordability to our patients. We encourage voters to support Tom Perriello.
Rep. McGuire voted to eliminate $1 trillion from Medicaid with his vote for H.R. 1 in July 2025. H.R. 1 was opposed by the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Medical Association, and many other healthcare organizations.
Many of our patients need Medicaid to keep their families safe and secure. Rural hospitals and clinics depend on Medicaid reimbursements to stay open. Most counties in Virginia’s Fifth District currently do not have enough primary care providers. Eleven counties in our district have no obstetric care. Another labor and delivery unit in Farmville closed in December 2025, citing the “recently enacted reductions in federal healthcare funding” that Rep. McGuire supported as a reason.
Tom is a proven champion for expanding affordable healthcare services. In Congress, Tom stood up to insurance lobbyists by voting for the Affordable Care Act and protecting people with pre-existing conditions and letting young people stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26. He also delivered tax credits that helped middle-class families afford health care.
Tom brought federal healthcare dollars home, including support for rural clinics in Buckingham and Nelson counties. In Congress, Tom voted to make Medicaid expansion possible in Virginia. After Congress, Tom fought for healthcare coverage until the state finally expanded Medicaid coverage for 600,000 Virginians.
Tom has spent the past year meeting with people in communities throughout our district. Tom has organized regular sessions with patients, caregivers, clinicians, healthcare workers, and administrators, listening to what’s working and what’s failing in our local healthcare networks.
Tom supports investment in rural healthcare because he believes all Americans deserve access to quality, affordable healthcare in their own communities. Tom’s priorities are clear: reverse the funding cuts threatening our rural hospitals, rebuild maternal and primary care, restore the middle-class tax credits for Affordable Care, and support family caregivers who are holding our health system together.
Tom wants to build a healthcare system that prioritizes access to care and maintaining people’s health. Tom can do this because he refuses all corporate PAC and lobbyist money. Tom answers to the patients and clinicians of Virginia’s Fifth District—not insurance executives.
We urge our neighbors and community members to support Tom Perriello for Congress: early voting started on Friday, September 18!
Signed,
Vaia Abatzis, MD, Albemarle
Kimberly Acquaviva, PhD, MSW, Albemarle
Dana Albon, MD, Albemarle
Adrian Ardron, CRNA, Charlottesville
Hayden Ardron, RN, Albemarle
Stewart Babbott, MD, Albemarle
Maria Badaracco, MD, Charlottesville
Lori Balaban, MD, Albemarle
Kenneth Ballew, MD, Albemarle
Eugene J. Barrett, MD, PhD, Albemarle
Thomas Barker, PhD, Charlottesville
Lawrence Barnett, LCSW, Charlottesville
Jonathan B. Bartels, RN, Charlottesville
Michael Briggs Bauman, OD, Danville
Angie Hasemann Bayliss, RDN, Albemarle
George Beller, MD, Charlottesville
Taison Bell, MD, Charlottesville
Natalie Belt, RN, Albemarle
April Bennett, LPC, Charlottesville
Virginia Blanks, MD, Lynchburg
Will Blackman, MD, Lynchburg
William A. Blackman, MD, Lynchburg
Gemila Bouber, MD, Albemarle
Meghann Bowyer, Pediatric NP, Lynchburg
Karen Boyle, BSN, Charlottesville
Robert J. Boyle, MD, Charlottesville
Renee Bricker, CCC-SLP, Charlottesville
Robert Owen Brennan, MD, Lynchburg
Teresa Lynch Brennan, MD, Lynchburg
Alaina Brown, MD, Charlottesville
Amanda Burns, Healthcare Administration, Charlottesville
Heidi Cabot, RN, Albemarle
Stephen Caldwell, MD, Charlottesville
James Forrest Calland, MD, Albemarle
Michael A. Caplan, MD, Danville
D. Jeannean Carver, MD, Albemarle
David Cattell-Gordon, MSW, Albemarle
Christian A. Chisholm, MD, Charlottesville
Jessicah Collins, MD, Albemarle
Michael Cook, FQHC Board Member, Nelson
Alan Michael Cooper, MD, Lynchburg
Joshua Coons, MD, Charlottesville
Deborah Craig Conway, RN, Albemarle
Bethany Coyne, PhD, RN, , Albemarle
Michael Crothers, RN, Charlottesville
Kelly Mercer Davidson, MD, Albemarle
Mark DeBoer, MD, Albemarle
John Deutsch, CRNA, Charlottesville
Robert Devereaux, MD, Charlottesville
Patsy Donnelly, RN, Albemarle
GR Donowitz, MD, Charlottesville
Kim Dowdell, MD, Albemarle
Alden Doyle, MD, Albemarle
Emily Drake, PhD, RN, Albemarle
Colleen Druzgal, MD, Charlottesville
Douglas Eddy, RT(R)(MR), Albemarle
Elizabeth Enfield, RN, Albemarle
Kyle Enfield, MD, Albemarle
Elizabeth Epstein, PhD, RN, Albemarle
Esteban Figueroa, MD, Albemarle
Erica Peters Finan, PhD, Albemarle
Patrick Finan, PhD, Charlottesville
Molly Flannagan, MD, Albemarle
Katherine Forkin, MD, Albemarle
William Fox, MD, Albemarle
Katie Fusco, OTR/L, Charlottesville
Rachel Gagen, MD, Lynchburg
Ashley Garneau, MD, Albemarle
Gregory S. Gelburd, DO, Charlottesville
Peter A. H. Gibbs, DO, Lynchburg
Matthew Gillikin, CCC-SLP, Charlottesville
George Glass, MD, Albemarle
Elizabeth Glover, CCC-SLP, Charlottesville
Susan Goins-Eplee, RN, Albemarle
Howard Goodkin, MD, PhD, Albemarle
Rose Emily Gonzalez, PhD, Albemarle
Susan Gray, MD, Charlottesville
Wayne E. Hachey, DO, Nelson
Carol Haig, CNM, Albemarle
Teresa M. Haller, RN, Albemarle
Elisa Hampton, MD, Charlottesville
Louisa Hann, MD, Charlottesville
Mary K. Hardy, ACNP, Charlottesville
Stephanie Hartman, MD, Albemarle
Fern Hauck, MD, Albemarle
Anna Beckwith Hawkes (Polly), FNP, Albemarle
David Hawkes, MD, Albemarle
William Carlson Hawkes, MD, Albemarle
Gregory Hayden, MD, Albemarle
Evan Heald, MD, Albemarle
Susan Heald, DPT, Albemarle
Frederick Heisterman, MSW, Albemarle
Anita Thompson Heisterman, RN, Albemarle
Deborah Henderson, MD, Charlottesville
Duncan Hill, MD, Albemarle
Margaret Joan Hobson, MD, Albemarle
Emma Hoffman, DDS, Lynchburg
Amy Hughes-Gross, RN, Albemarle
Beth Hundt, PhD, APRN, Albemarle
Patrick Jackson, MD, Albemarle
Jeffrey Jenkins, MD, Charlottesville
Anna Jesus, MD, Albemarle
Danielle Johnson, DO, Charlottesville
Rodney S. Johnson, Healthcare Administration, Nelson
Emmad Kabil, MD, Albemarle
Melissa Kehl, MD, Albemarle
Margaret F. Keller, BSN, Albemarle
Tracy Crowell Kilpatrick, RN, Fluvanna
Sarah Knight, MD, Charlottesville
William S. Knight, MD, Charlottesville
Natalie B. Krovetz, RN, Charlottesville
Suzanne Krzyzanowski, MD, Lynchburg
Laura J. Kuhn, RN, Albemarle
Jeffrey LaFond, MD, Goochland
Sarah LaFond, MD, Goochland
Esther H. Larkin, FQHC Board Member, Nelson
Kathryn Laughon, PhD, RN, Charlottesville
Monica Lawrence, MD, Albemarle
Timothy Layng, DO, Charlottesville
Carolyn Lewis, PT, Albemarle
Emily Little, RN, Charlottesville
Keith Littlewood, MD, Albemarle
Maryann Long, PhD, CNM, Charlottesville
Janice Luth, MD, Bedford
Max Luna, MD, Albemarle
E. Allison Lyons, MD, Albemarle
Bradley S. Malcolm, MD, Lynchburg
Amy Malek, MD, Albemarle
Jessica Malpass, PhD, RN, Albemarle
William Manson, MD, Albemarle
Jay A. McDonald, MD, Albemarle
Amy McDonnell, FNP-C, Albemarle
Catherine McGahren, RN, Albemarle
Nancy M. McLaren, MD, Charlottesville
Stephanie B. Mcnerney, CPNP-PC, Albemarle
Kristin Mcnail, CCC-SLP, Albemarle
Mark Mendelsohn, MD, Charlottesville
Gary P. Miller, MD, Danville
Jessica S. Meyer, MD, Albemarle
Matthew Meyer, MD, Albemarle
Robert Michel, MD, Albemarle
Andrew D. Mihalek, MD, Albemarle
Anne M. Mills, MD, Albemarle
James H. Moak, MD, Albemarle
Melanie Catherine Morse, PhD, Charlottesville
Mo Nadkarni, MD, Albemarle
Bhiken Naik, MD, Albemarle
Adriane Neumeister, RN, Albemarle
Phillip Nieburg, MD, Albemarle
Anne A. Norwood, CPNP, Nelson
Thomas W. Nygaard, MD, Lynchburg
Thomas Pajewski, MD, PhD, Albemarle
Emily Parillo, RD, Albemarle
Carol Rees Parrish, RDN, Albemarle
Irene Parrish, FNP, Mecklenburg
Andrew Parsons, MD, Charlottesville
Laura Parsons, MD, Albemarle
Keri Patel, FNP-C, Charlottesville
Heather Payne, WHNP-BC, Charlottesville
Martha Perkins, RN, Albemarle
Paige Perriello, MD, Albemarle
Brian Peterson, MD, Albemarle
Julie Pitti, CCC-SLP, Albemarle
Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD, Albemarle
Patricia Polgar-Bailey, PsyD, FNP, Charlottesville
Alyxandra Powers, RN, Albemarle
Robert D. Powers, MD, Albemarle
Susan Randolph, LPC, Albemarle
Patricia Rassbach, RN, Mecklenburg
Richard Ridge, PhD, PMHNP-BC, Charlottesville
Kari Ring, MD, Albemarle
Kathryn Robertson, PA, Albemarle
Kristi Rose, MD, Albemarle
Tim Rose, RN, Albemarle
Paula Rowan-Page, RN, Charlottesville
Daniel Duane Rowley, RRT, Albemarle
Diane Rozycki, MD, Charlottesville
MJ Sacco, MD, Charlottesville
Courtney Salaway, FNP, Albemarle
Rebecca Scharf, MD, Charlottesville
Jocelyn Schauer, MD, Charlottesville
David E. Schmitt, MD, Charlottesville
Samuel Schustek, DPM, Albemarle
Laura Ashley Shaffer, PhD, Charlottesville
Neeral Shah, MD, Albemarle
Vanessa Shami, MD, Charlottesville
Bruce A. Silverman, MD, Goochland
Jessica Simmons, MD, Albemarle
Kendra Simpson, MD, Lynchburg
Katherine Smyth, MD, Albemarle
Nina J. Solenski, MD, Albemarle
Andrew M. Southerland, MD, Albemarle
Michael Spaeder, MD, Charlottesville
Savita Srivastava, MD, Albemarle
Ina Stephens, MD, Albemarle
Jeanne Strunk, FNP, Prince Edward
Alexis Tew, CCC-SLP, Charlottesville
Cesarina Thohan, MD, Albemarle
Dorothy Tompkins, MD, Charlottesville
William F. Tompkins, MD, Charlottesville
Barb Trotter, RN, Albemarle
Elizabeth Turner, CCC-SLP, Albemarle
Heather L. Turner, RN, Charlottesville
Ellen Volker, MD, Charlottesville
James Scott Wade, MD, Lynchburg
Karen Warburton, MD, Charlottesville
Anna Ware, RN, Albemarle
M. Leigh Warner, CCC-SLP, Charlottesville
David S. Wilkes, MD, Albemarle
Claudia Wisman, RN, Charlottesville
Paul Wisman, MD, Charlottesville
Andrew Wolf, MD, Albemarle
Anne Wolf, RD, Albemarle
Bradford B. Worrall, MD, Charlottesville
Eric Young, PA-C, Charlottesville