Samantha Ferrin

Simply Healthcare, an affiliate of Elevance Health

Ferrin was named lead lobbyist for one of the largest Medicaid managed care plans, Simply Healthcare, in September 2022. Prior to joining the health plan, she was with the Greenberg Traurig law firm, where she focused on, among other things, health care policy and government procurement. Ferrin also served as Interim Secretary of the Florida Lottery.

Dr. Henri Ford

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Ford is the Dean of the Miller School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in the state. He currently serves as chair of the AAMC Council of Deans. In October, Ford will be named president of the American College of Surgeons (he currently is serving as president-elect). Ford is an internationally renowned pediatric surgeon who, in 2015, completed the first successful conjoined twins’ separation in Haiti, where he was born and lived before immigrating to the United States.

Sam Garrison

Florida House

Garrison is the man with the health care spending plan in the House. Garrison, a partner with the Bradley, Garrison & Komando, P.A. law firm, was first elected in November 2020. After just one term in the House, he was named chair of the House Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee. Garrison, a former prosecutor in the State Attorney’s office, helped establish Clay County’s first rape crisis center.