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Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979.  Prior to becoming president in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada.

Ms. Pipes addresses national and international audiences on health care issues.  She has been interviewed on ABC’s 20/20 with John Stossel; CNN’s Lou Dobbs Show; Fox News “Glenn Beck Show;” NBC’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams”; Fox Business Network; “The O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News “Your World With Neil Cavuto”, “The Today Show;” “Kudlow & Company on CNBC, MSNBC, “Dateline;” “Politically Incorrect;” “The Dennis Miller Show;” and other prominent programs. 

She has written regular columns for the Examiner newspapers, Chief Executive and Investor’s Business Daily.   Her health care opinion pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times of London, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and the San Diego Union-Tribune, to name a few.  Ms. Pipes’ views on health care also appeared in a special report of the world’s 30 leading health care experts published by Forbes.com entitled, “Solutions: Health Care" and in Steve Forbes latest book How Capitalism Can Save Us.  She was widely quoted in Shape Magazine and in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in an article by Princeton’s Peter Singer on how Obama will ration your care. 

As a health care expert, Ms. Pipes has debated Paul Krugman, Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist, in New York at Rockefeller University.  Sponsored by Intelligence Squared, the debate was attended by 450 people and was viewed by 270 million around the world through NPR and BBC Worldwide.  In 2009, she debated Princeton Professor Uwe Reinhardt and Harvard’s Dr. David Himmelstein twice on the “No” side of the motion that “universal health coverage is the responsibility of the federal government.”  

She served as one of Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s four health care advisors in his bid for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.  She appeared in Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko” and has participated in prominent debates and public forums, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, committees of the California and Oregon legislatures, appeared on popular television programs including debating former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, participated in talk radio shows nationwide, and had 130 opeds published on health care issues in 2009.

Her first book, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer with a foreword by Milton Friedman was released September 28, 2004. It is available on Amazon.com.   In October 2008, her second book The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide with a foreword by Steve Forbes, was published.  The release was well timed with the national debate on health care reform.  It has been widely reviewed and quoted.  Over 1.075 million copies have been downloaded from PRI’s website and 4,500 copies have been sold on Amazon.  Thomas Sowell in his syndicated column for Creators Syndicate wrote of the book “Before you do anything else, make a note to read The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care.  It might literally save your life. 

Her next book The Truth About ObamaCare will be published in August 2010 by Regnery Publishing. 

Ms. Pipes served on the Medical Advisory Council of Genworth Financial’s Long-Term Care Insurance Division in 2006, the national advisory board of Capital Research Center, the Advisory Board of the California Association of Scholars, and the State Policy Network president’s advisory council.  She has served as a trustee of St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation in San Francisco, a board member of the Independent Women’s Forum, and as a governor of the Donner Canadian Foundation.  She was a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team in 2003-04.

She received the Roe Award at the 2004 annual meeting of State Policy Network.  The award is a tribute to an individual in the state public policy movement who has a passion for liberty, a willingness to work for it, and noteworthy achievement in turning dreams into realities.  In 2005, she was named one of the Top 10 Women in the Conservative Movement in America as published by Human Events.  In 2008, she was honored by the California Women’s Leadership Association.  She received the 3rd Annual Women Achievers’ award, “Celebrating the Spirit of Women”.  She was also featured in a new book “Women Who Paved the Way” as one of 35 most outstanding women in business in the nation.  In August 2009, she was invited by Canada’s Minister of Finance to participate in his “Third Annual Summer Policy Retreat” at Meech Lake in Quebec.  The three-day event was attended by a small group of professors, think tank presidents, and small business leaders. The focus was on how to restructure the Canadian health care system.

Ms. Pipes, a former Canadian, became an American citizen in 2006.  Married to Professor Charles Kesler, she is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.  While in Canada she was a member of the Canadian Association for Business Economics (president for two terms).