Margaret Flowers

Margaret Flowers (born November 8, 1962) is an American pediatrician, public health advocate and activist. After 17 years of practicing medicine, she became an advocate for a single-payer insurance system.

Flowers is an adviser to the board of Physicians for a National Health Program, serving as a Congressional Fellow during the health reform process in 2009-2010 and is co-chair of the Maryland chapter. She was co-chair of the Green Party of the United States until 2020.

Early life Flowers was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1962. She received her bachelor's degree in biology in 1986 at Georgetown University. In 1990 she received her Doctorate in Medicine from University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her residency in pediatrics from Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Career Pediatrics From 1990 to 2007, Flowers practiced medicine first as director of pediatrics at a rural hospital and then in private practice.

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