Maine AllCare board members, along with our dedicated volunteers, form the core of our organization. They bring experience and expertise in medicine and health care, business, economics, education, policy, management, communications, and more.
Contact us at info@maineallcare.org with questions, ideas, or if you might be interested in sharing your skills and energy by joining our board or working with a committee.
Michael Bacon
Westbrook
B.S., Michigan State University
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mike began working as a volunteer with Maine AllCare in 2017 after a long career of research in oceanography. He first became interested in health care advocacy after learning, from personal experience, how well Medicare works for the patient and deciding that, with modest improvements, it should include everyone. He joined the board at the end of 2023 and serves on the Education and Outreach Committee.
“According to one assessment, the U.S. health care system ranks 69th in the world. Compared to citizens of other wealthy countries, we spend more, are less healthy, and die sooner. It astonishes me that we Americans tolerate such a poor showing. We all want to be number one in athletic competitions. Let’s bring the same spirit to the reform of our health care system. It would save money and save lives.”
David Jolly, Vice-Chair
Penobscot
Master’s in elementary education, Tufts University
Doctor of Public Health in health behavior and health education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Jolly taught in the Department of Public Health Education at North Carolina Central University for 17 years, where he developed and taught a wide variety of courses in public health and health care policy. He also worked with the state public health department in NC and with other nonprofit organizations, including in pioneering work in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He has a long-held interest in health care access and has been an advocate for health care reform for decades. David began volunteering with the Maine AllCare Downeast chapter in 2018. He joined the board in January 2023, and currently serves as chair of the Education and Outreach committee.
“I taught a policy course on access to health care at a historically Black university. For their first assignment students wrote about personal experiences with the U.S. health care system—their own or a family member's. Their eye-opening stories were often maddening and/or gut-wrenching. They made clear the system is failing us, those who have been marginalized above all—and too often with tragic results.”
Julie Keller Pease, MD, Chair
Topsham
SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MD, University of Minnesota Medical School
Internship, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey
Psychiatry Residency, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont
Dr. Julie Pease hails from Minnesota, and has lived in Maine since 1987. She is currently practicing psychiatry for part of the year in New Zealand, a country that has provided single-payer universal health care for its residents since 1948.
Dr. Pease is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a past president of the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians. She is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, and she represents Maine on the board of One Payer States, a national organization that fights to win high-quality, cost-effective health care for all. Dr. Pease was a co-founder of Maine AllCare in 2010 and served as president of the board from 2011-2016. She returned to the Maine AllCare Board in January 2022 and serves on the Education and Outreach and Legislative Committees.
"It is long past time for us to overhaul our inequitable, overpriced and complicated health care system. I am returning to the Maine AllCare board with the goal of organizing Maine health care practitioners and patients to demand a simple, affordable health care system that will cover everyone in Maine. Please join us in this fight!"
Louise Secordel
Scarborough
B.S., Applied Psychology, New York University
MBA in Healthcare, Simmons University
Louise is a healthcare strategist and policy researcher with experience in population health models and care delivery redesign. She currently works as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute for Accountable Care, a non-profit research institute dedicated to informing public policy and supporting organizations navigating value-based care. Passionate about bridging stakeholders and policy across sectors for health equity, she has also worked in academic health systems, state health policy, and global health. Louise began volunteering with Maine AllCare in 2024 and joined the board in January 2025.
"I'm inspired by the generations of advocates who have fought persistently for healthcare for all. I look forward to learning from them as I join the cause. I believe in a better future for all Mainers."
Tom Sterne, MD, Secretary/Treasurer
Bridgton
B.A., Harvard College
M.Sc., London School of Economics
MD, Harvard Medical School; Residency in Internal Medicine, Mass. General Hospital
Before moving to Maine, Tom worked as a primary care physician, teacher, and administrator in the Boston area for years, and was the Medical Director for two community health centers, with appointments at Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. With a background in health economics and administration, he has been a longtime member of Physicians for a National Health Program. His interests include medical (and general) education, health care financing and the care of minority and immigrant/refugee populations. He is fluent in Spanish and has lived and worked in the Guatemalan highlands. Tom is married and lives with his wife Tereta and their dog Duke in an 1860s home in Bridgton. Tom joined the Maine AllCare Board in 2018. He is a member of the Executive Committee and the Policy Committee.
“The sad truth is that the vast majority of insurance policies carry with them imposing deductibles, which leave enrollees functionally uninsured, and do not reduce insurers’ administrative overhead. I have joined the Maine AllCare Board to work toward state-based universal coverage, which would provide well-funded, comprehensive, and less-expensive medical care for all Maine residents.”