Dr. Marion Mass Joins Avery's Hope As Medical Advisor

NEW HOPE, PA — Dr. Marion Mass, of Bucks County, has joined the Avery's Hope Board of Directors as its medical advisor.

In this capacity, Dr. Mass will assist the Board and Executive Director with decisions based
on patient diagnoses for Avery Awards and future patient assistance directly from Avery's Hope.

Avery Awards are small financial awards to assist patient families with out-of-pocket and insurance-denied expenses. It is the organization's mission to help families with the high cost of raising a child with a rare, ultra-rare or undiagnosed gastrointestinal disease.

Avery Awards are small financial awards to assist patient families with out-of-pocket and insurance-denied expenses. It is the organization's mission to help families with the high cost of raising a child with a rare, ultra-rare, or undiagnosed gastrointestinal disease.

Dr. Marion Mass graduated from Duke University Medical School, trained at Northwestern's Robert Lurie Hospital in pediatrics, and has worked as a pediatrician in suburban Philadelphia for 24 years serving in the hospital, newborn unit, emergency room, primary care, and urgent care settings.

She is the co-founder of the non-partisan Practicing Physicians Of America and leadership in the Free2care coalition. She is the first author of the Free2Care position paper on reducing cost and waste in American Healthcare, Free2Care is a 34-member groups, consisting of 8 million Americans, 70,000 are physicians. She is a visiting Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.

She has organized and led two bipartisan symposiums at the Library of Congress regarding lowering healthcare costs and improving access and advises multiple lawmakers on how to do the same.

She has written numerous opinion pieces on cost and access in multiple outlets including The WSJ, Real Clear Health, Philly Inquirer, The Hill, the New York Post, Philly Burbs and more.

In her community, she serves on the board of the Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership and served for 7 years on the Editorial Board of the Bucks County Courier Times. When her children were in school, she served on Wellness councils in the Central Bucks School system.

Dr. Mass has been married to surgeon Stephen Mass since 1995 and they have three adult children.

Avery's Hope is an all-volunteer organization that was established in 2017 to raise awareness and funds for families with rare, ultra-rare and undiagnosed pediatric GI patients. Its mission is to help these families with their insurance-denied and out-of-pocket expenses, which often become a financial burden and delay care and treatment, as well as diminish the quality of life.