Steve Kemble, MD

Dr. Kemble attended medical school at University of Hawaii and Harvard, and he trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry. He recently retired from the private practice of psychiatry, but he still practices part-time in Queen Emma Clinic, a hospital-based primary care clinic, including caring for mostly Medicaid patients and teaching psychiatric issues in general medical care to internal medicine residents. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of both Medicine and Psychiatry at the JABSOM. He is also a past president of both the Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association and the Hawaii Medical Association. Dr. Kemble has a longstanding interest in health policy and health care reform, and he was appointed to the Hawaii Health Authority in 2011, charged with overall health planning for the State of Hawaii and with designing a universal health care system covering everyone in the State. He has been a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, a physician single-payer advocacy organization, since 1989, and he currently serves on the PNHP Board.