Dr. Marc Stern

Chief Medical Advisor - National Sheriffs' Association

Dr. Stern serves as NSA’s Medical Advisor. He is a general internist with 25 years’ experience as a correctional physician in a variety of settings including as a jail medical director, a regional medical director for a state DOC, a regional medical director for a for-profit correctional health care provider, and as assistant secretary/medical director for a state DOC. He has provided consultation and assistance on correctional health care to a variety of organizations and agencies including DHS, USDOJ, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Institute of Corrections, California Attorney General, Human Rights Watch, Federal courts, and the Namibian Correctional Service, and currently serves as medical advisor to the American Jail Association, and the Washington State Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Association and as lead court-appointed monitor in a class action law suit against the Arizona DOC regarding health care and solitary confinement. Dr. Stern also conducts research and teaches at the University of Washington School of Public Health, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Correctional Medicine, and is past chair of the education committees of the American College of Correctional Physicians and the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health.

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