Emeritus board members

Bill Hand is an experienced project and account manager with over 15 years of experience in business development, customer engagement, sales, and team building. He successfully led a production team that designed and built interactive, mobile products for major media companies. Mr. Hand has also spent several years with Verizon Wireless helping to develop sales strategies and was responsible for winning, maintaining and growing government accounts.

Mr. Hand is also an avid reader and writes a motivational newsletter focused on teaching leadership principles, personal development, goal setting, and success principles. He is currently writing a book based on portions of his newsletters. His favorite authors are John Maxwell, Dale Carnegie, Og Mandino, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracey, Napoleon Hill, and Stephen R. Covey. He also likes to cook and meet new people.

Mr. Hand supports the youth in his community and has served as Cub Master and Den Leader for a local Cub Scout pack. He also coached his son’s baseball and basketball teams and had served on the Board of Directors of several community organizations. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of a local non-profit and a local Toastmasters club. Mr. Hand holds a B.S. in Information Sciences from University of Maryland University College, and his M.S. in IT Project Management from Rockwell University.

Jack Ginsburg retired from the American College of Physicians after 33 years of service. As the Director of Health Policy Analysis and Research, he was primarily responsible for developing the College’s public policy positions. Jack was also in charge of staff support for the ACP Health and Public Policy Committee and served as staff liaison to the American Medical Association.

Jack has provided expertise and assistance on public policy issues to the Board of Governors, Board of Regents and other College leaderships around the country. In 2016, Jack became the first recipient of the ACP Award for Distinguished Contribution by a Former or Retired Staff Member.

Before joining the College, Jack worked for New York State government in Albany, NY where he worked for many years as an economist at the research office of the New York State Public Employment Relations Board.

Jack subsequently served as Assistant Chief Health Planner and as Principal Health Planner for the New York State Health Planning Commission. There Jack also provided staff support to the Governor’s Health Advisory Council and a New York State Task Force on Health Manpower in addition to assisting in authoring the Governor’s annual white paper on health care.

Mr. Ginsburg was the primary author of scores of policy statements, position papers and published articles on issues ranging from financing graduate medical education to firearms injury prevention. He was the principal author of the College’s first position paper on universal access to health insurance in 1990 and was involved in all of the College’s subsequent efforts to expand access to health insurance.

Jack is a member of the Alexandria Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Jack served as Clerk of the Meeting (Chief Administrative Officer) from 1985-1995 and as Clerk (Chair) of the Board of Trustees from 1995-2000.

Mr. Ginsburg received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Albany and his Master’s degree in political economy from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at SUNY Albany. Jack married Barbara (Klug) Ginsburg in 1971 they have two children and two grandchildren.