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'''Peter Beilenson''' is a [[physician]] and [[public health]] executive in [[Maryland]], [[United States]]visionary who has transformed Maryland’s health care system over the past 25 years in his role as a public health leader and an advocate for health care for all. He is currently isthe president and CEO of [[Evergreen Health Co-op]], Maryland’s new health insurance company.<ref name="Evergreen Health Co-op">{{cite web|title=Evergreen Health Co-op|url=http://www.evergreenmd.org/|accessdate=27 JuneMarch 20134}}</ref> He served as [[Howard County, Maryland|In 2012, he published his book, [[Tapping into The Wire]], which focuses on urban issues highlighted in the [[HBO]] hit series, [[The Wire]].  Before founding [[Evergreen Health]], Beilenson served as [[Howard County]] Health Officer from 2007- to 2012, and as [[Baltimore City]] Health Commissioner from 1992-2005. In 2011, Beilenson was named an ''[[Utne Reader]]'' visionary.<ref name="visionary">{{cite web|title=Peter Beilenson: Health Care Hero|url=http://www.utne.com/Mind-Body/Utne-Reader-Visionaries-Peter-Beilenson-Evergreen-Project.aspx|publisher=''Utne Reader'', November–December 2011|accessdate=19 October 2011}}</ref> to 2005. ⏎


== Education ==

Beilenson graduated cum laude from [[Harvard University]] in 1981. He received his Medical Doctorate from [[Emory University]] School of Medicine, after which he did an internship in Family Medicine at the [[University of Maryland]] School of Medicine. He continued on to the [[Johns Hopkins University]] [[Bloomberg School of Public Health]] where he received a Masters in Public Health and was a resident in the Johns Hopkins Preventive Medicine Residency Program.

== Personal life ==

Beilenson is married to Chris and has five children. He lives in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]]. His father is Congressman [[Anthony C. Beilenson]].

==See also==
*[[Healthy Howard]]
*[[Maryland Congressional election, 2006]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/magazine/archive/Mag_Fall03/beilenson/ Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, Fall 2003: Think Big... Move Fast]

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