Freedom for Doctors
    AND Patients

Kathryn Serkes is Chair and Co-Founder of the Doctor Patient Medical Association (DPMA), the first national group of patients AND doctors working for freedom in medicine, which was prompted by grassroots activism during the debate on healthcare reform in 2009-2010. She was one of the chief strategists organizing the efforts against socialized medicine legislation, speaking at more than 35 rallies and town halls, and appearing on numerous radio and television shows. Grassroots leaders Amy Kremer and Jennifer Hulsey serve as Co-Chairs of the “Patient Power” project of DPMA.

For more than 16 years, she served as public affairs and policy consultant for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, representing that group during it’s litigation against the Hillary Clinton and the White House Health Care Task Force, and helping to spur the national coalition that lead to the defeat of the Clinton health plan.

Appointed by four Administrations to serve at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, she received that agency’s highest recognition, the “Director’s Award for Meritorious Service.” An Emmy-award winning producer and reporter before founding Square One, her academic credentials include the faculty of Bellevue Community College and Guest Lecturer at George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.

Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Hill and The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, and she’s been a guest on shows such as “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show” and “The O’Reilly Factor.” She is co-author of “Patient Power: The Patient’s Handbook.”

Ms. Serkes sits on the Health and Human Services Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the largest bi-partisan association of state legislators. She is founder and chair of the “Coalition Against Prosecutorial Abuse” to rein in government trial lawyers – the criminal companion to civil tort reform; “Hands Off Our Kids Coalition” to halt government pediatric vaccine mandates and other government violation of parental rights, and sits on the Advisory Board of GOProud.

Kathryn is also president and founder of Square One Media Network, a strategic communications firm serving clients such as Boeing, Sheraton Hotels, Continental Airlines, Time- Warner Communications, Washington State Dairy Commission, Washington Health Care Association, and the State of Washington since 1985. Offices are located in Seattle and Washington D.C.

As a volunteer, Ms. Serkes and her medical service dog, Phoebe, work with national Urban Disaster teams, rescuing victims and recovering cadavers.