Michael Fine. M.D. is a family physician and Managing Director of HealthAccessRI, the nation's first statewide organization making prepaid, reduced fee for service primary care available to people without employer provided insurance and those with health savings accounts. Fine practiced for 16 years in urban Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and rural Scituate, Rhode Island. He was the Physician Operating Officer of Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine, the largest family practice in Rhode Island, and Physician-in-Chief of the Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals Departments of Family and Community Medicine, until December of 2008, when he stepped down to run HealthAccessRI. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Crossroads RI, the State's major agency caring for Rhode Island's homeless, and Co-Chair of the Allied Advocacy Group for Integrated Primary Care. He is convener and facilitator of the Primary Care Leadership council, a statewide organization with represents 75 percent of Rhode Island's primary care physicians and practices. Fine was the founder of the Scituate Health Alliance, a community based, population focused community non profit, which made Scituate Rhode Island the first community in the US to provide primary care to all town residents. Fine is a Past-President of the Rhode Island Academy of Family Physicians, and was an Open Society Institute/George Soros Fellow in Medicine as a Profession 2000-2002.

Fine's professional life has been devoted to health care reform, and the care of underserved populations. He has served on a number of Legislative committees at the Rhode Island General Assembly; has been chair of the Primary Care Advisory Committee for the Rhode Island Department of Health, and sat on both the Urban Family Medicine Task Force of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the National Advisory Council to the National Health Service Corps.

Dr Fine, is coauthor, with James Peters, to The Nature of Health (Radcliffe, 2007) now in its third printing. The Nature of Health is the first health policy book since Medical Nemesis (Ivan Illich,1975) and Mirage of Health (Rene Dubos,1959) to consider the meaning of health as most people understand it, and to suggest the design a health care system that delivers the health people want.