MaryLouise Patterson
Dr. MaryLouise Patterson is a retired general pediatrician living in NYC. She is also a mother of 3 and a grandmother of 4. Her parents, Louise and William Patterson, were Leftist civil rights activists and members of the CP their entire lives. They represented the best in the Black Radical tradition. She received her medical degree from Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow, USSR and a Masters, Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and for most of her career has worked in primary pediatric care in communities of color. She joined the Communist Party upon return to the US. She later left and joined CCDS. She was a member of the Nat’l Alliance and was/is active in Cuba Solidarity and PNHP, Physicians for a National Health Program. She is committed to and active in the push for universal health care-Medicare for All, to ending institutionalized racism in medicine, to increasing the number of Black, Latinx, Native American Indian and women health providers and to Peace with Justice everywhere and given numerous talks on all these topics. She is the co-author of “Letters from Langston: From the Red Scare to the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond”. UC Press 2016 and is currently working on her memoir.