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Phillip Gioia
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Education

Bachelor's

Dartmouth College, 1971

Graduate

Columbia University School of Public Health, 1981

Medical

State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, 1975

Personal
Birthplace
New York
Religion
Catholic
Profession
Physician
Contact

Phillip Gioia (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 24th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on June 25, 2024.

Gioia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Phillip Gioia was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1971, an M.D. from State University of New York, Upstate Medical University in 1975, and a graduate degree from the Columbia University School of Public Health in 1981. His career experience includes working as a physician. Gioia has been affiliated with the AAP, AMA, MSSNY, NYPHA, APHA, PNHP, AMIA, OWLA, and the Cayuga County Medical Society.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: New York's 24th Congressional District election, 2024

New York's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Republican primary)

New York's 24th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House New York District 24

Incumbent Claudia Tenney defeated David Wagenhauser in the general election for U.S. House New York District 24 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney (Conservative Party / R)
 
65.6
 
235,867
Image of David Wagenhauser
David Wagenhauser (D) Candidate Connection
 
34.3
 
123,317
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
223

Total votes: 359,407
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. David Wagenhauser advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 24.

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 24

Incumbent Claudia Tenney defeated Mario Fratto in the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 24 on June 25, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
 
61.1
 
19,485
Image of Mario Fratto
Mario Fratto
 
38.3
 
12,233
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.6
 
187

Total votes: 31,905
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Claudia Tenney advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 24.

Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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I am a public health physician and retired pediatrician. I ran my own pediatric practice in Cayuga County for 40 years. I have worked for the Cayuga County Health Department as their medical director for 40 years. I studied government and public health at Columbia University and the NYS Department of Health.

I have advocated for the public good with the Medical Society of the State of NY (MSSNY), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the NYS Public Health Association (NYSPHA). I helped start and still help guide the Cayuga Community Health Network. I promote environmental health with the Owasco Watershed and Lake Association (OWLA). I promote information privacy and security with AMIA ( American Medical Informatics Association).

I believe that we must balance compassion and savings using tested knowledge and humility to continue to thrive on our planet in a enjoyable and humane way. To reduce harm and waste we should plan for a changing future using private and secure information systems for evaluation, interventions, and re-evaluations. Government and regulations should be used to help develop limited natural resources fairly for long term use. Markets work when there is open competition and the businesses operate fairly and pay for natural resources; and for the natural and social resources they use. Limited natural resources are air, water, minerals, and government land. Social resources are health, housing, education, transportation and energy.

  • Promoting Health and Savings.
        In the elections in the coming 9 months, please be mindful of supporting the health of our nation and in saving resources for our future.  Promoting health for all people of our nation, may be done so that it helps to save our money and provides better health.  With better nutrition, exercise, air, water, and awareness of ourselves and others, we will feel better and be more productive. With savings we may help our economy to produce healthy foods and products that help us live better and remove the burden of debt.  
    
    Health is a valuable resource to continue providing for ourselves and others. It is limited by our environment, behaviors, and our genetics. With good planning we improve it and save.
  • When we provide clean air/water by using clean energy, efficient nutrition/housing/activities, and effective health promotion/teaching/travel we also eliminate waste and preserve natural resources. In this way we may continue to strive for a better way of life for years to come. The Way: Knowledge Balances Territory and Compassion: my book fully describes our challenges to save resources and help ourselves using information that is well tested. That information should be supported by objective evidence and open debate only possible in a democracy that respects and is just for all. Further information is available at www.CHealthS.com. The book is at Amazon.com. Also see NASEM study – Emerging Stronger from COVID-19: Priorities for us.
  • Currently many, including myself, are full of dread that the House of Representatives will be unable to pass funding bills for our Federal Government anytime soon. Current Speaker Mike Johnson with his slim Republican Majority just passed a one house bill to give Israel $14.3 billion in military aid and cutting $14.3 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding previously approved. In 2021 the IRS got back $5 for every $1 it spent on enforcement. So, the actual savings claimed by House Republicans would be costing us about $66 billion in lost revenue besides the costs for the military aid. Other actions of the current House of Representatives to attempt to save money will cost us money and harm health and food aid in the USA.
Helping people feel better and be more useful. Promoting work to help with our future productive business, buildings, transportation, education, housing, and caring for all people as needed. Promoting useful products that help to keep our air, water, land, and people healthier while also saving on money and resources.

Some examples are the WIC (Women, Infant and Children) program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP), and Medicaid for all. These programs reduce illness, medical costs, and chronic disease and help workers stay on the job. The current Republican Congress has been cutting them back.

Funds to help Ukraine help to keep Russia and Putin from threatening NATO and democracy. Republicans cuts harm Ukraine.
When I was 10 years old I read a book about Albert Schweitzer, MD who was a physician, a minister, and a missionary to central Africa in the early and mid 1900's. I wanted to use my interest and abilities in science to help people like him. As I grew up I thought that public health would be most helpful for most people in our country and the world. I admired Surgeon Generals Ernest Koop, MD and Joycelyn Elders, MD who helped to advocate for minority and low income health needs.

I also admire William Foege, MD who helped to eliminate smallpox from the natural world in 1978. Dr. Foege first had to convince the Lutheran missions to commit resources to help promote health rather than just treat disease that resulted from poor health promotion. Disease treatment is much more dramatic and attention attracting than helping somebody get vaccinated or avoid contact with a contagious disease. Dr. Foege taught governments, health promotion agencies, and disease control programs that "you get what you inspect". Using old fashioned paper documents and many inspection officers, he and his teams inspected records of vaccinations and disease to be sure that they eliminated smallpox in every village and neighborhood where it showed up.
My book - The Way: Knowledge Balances Territory & Compassion best describes my ideas in more detail. It is available from Amazon.com books. I summarize that The Way is promoting health and savings for all using knowledge. Information conquers waste in trying to achieve a better world or healthier world for all people with savings. Information in its highest forms of knowledge and wisdom is the most useful. For rapidly evolving or new problems basic information may signal the existence of a problem and direct us to form new knowledge and wisdom about those problems or diseases.

Taoist philosophy also guides people in a similar way but in ancient cultures. Taoism is The Way by using compassion, frugality and humility, Compassion in current terms is promoting health for all. Compassion now is associated more with intense emotions but the Greek term agape might be better. In current terms health promotion for all people best expresses working to give all the people the best possible life and culture in the long term. Frugality now is more associated with penny pinching or extreme limits to expenditures. Savings are more positive and associated with long term success. Savings are in health, economics, infrastructure, housing, education, and resources both natural and social. Humility now is often is associated as being passive and avoiding conflicts. For current times the unbiased use of knowledge, discussion, debate, evidence, wisdom and science to test our plans to promote health, help people, save money, save people, and save resources is the most reasoned use of humility in challenging times when leaders and governments must do what is best to survive.

The Magic Flute Opera by Mozart deals with balancing the light or compassion with the dark of territory or waste. It is based on

Zoroastrianism. Good or the light and evil or the dark, battle but coexist. The Parsis and Yadzis now still practice the religion.
All of us, including elected officials, do best by promoting health and savings for all, with actions based on facts proven by real observations and interpreted with humility and open discussion. Elected officials and all humans often believe what parents, elders, and respected leaders tell us. Often this is helpful when we are children or know little about the issues; but when leaders make mistakes this unquestioning belief may harm us all. The continuing belief in our leaders or authority figures despite concrete evidence that they are wrong is called cognitive dissonance. It is a well studied psychologic phenomena common in human behavior.

To help use gather evidence for individual, group, and governmental decisions we need a private and secure information system to help us gain new knowledge and find problems. Such an information system may also help us act to solve the problems, and find out if the solutions work. The information system may then may be used to make solutions better, find more problems, and/or help prevent or resolve other problems. For the protection of individuals, groups and governments with our infrastructure the privacy and security of all must be protected as needed with secure identities and multifactorial authentications monitored by a well trusted unbiased authority.

When making decisions for the good of families, groups, and governments we should all work for the common good. Personal and economic preferences should be avoided. The public and experts that are independent of group or economic preferences or prejudices, should be used. Term limits and public financing of elections may help more and diverse people to be involved in government decisions as the public desires.
Successful office holders must care for people, learn all the facts needed, and decide based on open discussions and debates what is the best way to help all the people of their district; and as needed and possible all the people of their state, country, and the world as it connects to their district. I believe that care for the long term and significant needs of people. As a pediatrician and public health physician I used these feelings to help my patients and community. Since retiring from pediatrics and running my business, I have advocated for my community, state, and nation to help promote health for all with better laws and programs to aid those in need. In running my pediatric business, I have dealt with scientific and business facts to help keep my pediatric functioning over 40 years while providing work with decent pay to others and providing the best health promotion possible. In my office, I kept in touch with my employees and listened to their concerns; and listened to my patients and community to be aware of their needs and how to best address them.

Since selling my business to Auburn Community Hospital a few years ago, I am more involved in community and advocacy work with The Cayuga Community Health Network (CCHN), The Owasco Watershed and Lake Association (OWLA), and the Physicians for a National Health Plan. I have helped more in community health promotion, environmental health of the community, and in planning for health promotion at the state and national levels. This has gotten me more involved with discussions and debates on public policy issues.
Elected officials should know their constituents, know the facts of our health, economy, and savings, and make decisions for the common good based on facts and on the real demonstrated problems of all people.
For meaning in life, I would like to promote health, savings and the use of knowledge for all in our district, state, nation and the world to benefit the present and future generations. I would like to help build private, secure, and authenticated information systems to serve the present and the future to promote health, savings and knowledge. These information systems would spread best practices or ways to promote- health, savings, and using knowledge. They may also be used to find problems with health promotions, savings, and knowledge then to develop plans to fix the problems. The information systems would help implement the plans, evaluate them, re-evaluate the problems and work on correcting the problems in continuing cycles.
In 1979 while stationed at the Albany County Department of Health as part of my Public Health Residency with the NY State Department of Health, the registrar and I studied infant deaths by census tracts. We found that in low income inner city census tracts the infant deaths per 1000 births was 40 and in high income suburbs it was 5. I presented the findings to the Health System Agency (HSA) of the Capital District at the request of the Assistant Commissioner of Health of Albany County Dr. Pelham. The Mayor Erastus Corning III and his friend the Commissioner of Health of Albany County Dr. Lyons, covered up the findings and asked that the NYS Commissioner of Health Dr. David Axelrod fire me from the residency program. The NYS Commissioner said that the information was true and public so Dr. Axelrod retained me in the program. He moved me to the Epidemiology Division to further study infant health and NYS investigations.

Fortunately now we do try to have Equity in health promotion, though their is still much to be done to help all people have adequate support for all of the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) . The SDoH are environment, housing, nutrition, education, transportation, and access to health promotion. Polluted air and water is more common in low income areas. Housing if available often is contaminated by lead, rats, mold, and weather extremes. Low income areas often are in food deserts, lack access to fresh affordable fruits and vegetables, and have an overabundance of fast foods high in sugar, fats and salt. Education in low income school districts is often below the national standards. People with low income often have trouble getting to health care, jobs, supermarkets, and government offices. Access to health promotion is often difficult for low income people due a healthcare being focused on profit making.
I have worked in many jobs. In my teen years in the 1960's I mowed lawns, volunteered at the Schenectady County Nursing Home, was a night watchman at the Alplaus Bridge, summer research fellow at Albany Medical Center, NY, washed dishes at Grimaldi's restaurant in Syracuse, NY, volunteered with a summer youth program for St. Lucy's, corrected homework for Professor John Kemeny at Dartmouth College, worked as an aid at The Jewish Home of Central NY (a nursing home), worked in the Onondaga County Health Laboratory, worked on emergency room statistics at Upstate with Professor Howard Weinberger, did a summer research fellowship with The NY City Department of Health, saw patients for the Columbia University School of Public Health study of lead poisoning in Harlem, NY, was a Pediatric Resident for the USF in Tampa, studied health statistics for Tampa, was a Resident in Public Health for the NYS Department of Health, Pediatrician and business owner from 1981 until 2021 with Children's Health Specialists bought by Auburn Community Hospital in 2018, Medical director of the Cayuga County Health Department from 1983 to the present time.

Also volunteer work for the community and the public. Since 1981 with the Medical Society of the State of NY (MSSNY) advocating for patients, and physicians. In the early 1980's helping with Well Child Clinics for the County and supporting rural health centers. Since 1998 on the board of The Cayuga Community Health Network helping to promote health throughout our county. I also have been working more with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) the past few years advocating for children in need in NY State and the USA.
The book I most liked reading lately is House on Fire- The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William Foege, MD. It talks about his fight to get support for health promotion to help before disease strikes. It also shows the importance of the principle that "you get what you inspect, not what you expect". For every successful health promotion you must inspect the outcomes of what your program is supposed to achieve. He use paper but now we may use secure, private and authenticated electronic information systems.

Another great book is Health and Sustainability by Tee L. Guidotti, MD. He thoroughly describes the meaning of sustainability and its importance to health promotion and the continued existence of humans. He also explains "the problem of the commons". When resources are owned and used by many people then one or a few people may use them to their own benefit if social or economic regulation is lacking.

For understanding our environment and biosphere Biogeochemistry- An Analysis of Global Change 4th edition by William Schlesinger, and Emily S. Bernhardt professors at Duke University is very complete.

For understanding the health promoting effects of a vegan diet I liked How Not to Die, by Michael Greger, MD.

To know more about the science of nutrition and the resistance to change read - The China Study - by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas Campbell, and their more recent books.

For a discussion of the problems of privatization read - The Privatization of Everything, How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back - by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian.

For a discussion of my ideas read -The Way: Knowledge Balances Territory & Compassion, Information Conquers Waste - by Phillip C. Gioia, MD, MPH. Written in 2008 but based on a traditional humane approach to life, savings, and facts for the good of all for the long term. Available at amazon.com books.
Sarastro or The King of the Sun in the Magic Flute. He uses light and energy to promote health yet understands the darkness of territory.
Virus Alert by Weird Al Yankovic - lyrics at - https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+al+yankovic+virus+alert+lyrics&sca_esv=5edede5fd926eb91&sxsrf=ACQVn08ypXp0iWFO7be3fZdxKfnoP2ZpIA%3A1709565579983&ei=i-blZabHO6yJptQPnce60Ao&oq=weird+al+song+Virus+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFHdlaXJkIGFsIHNvbmcgVmlydXMgKgIIATIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgsQABiABBiKBRiGAzILEAAYgAQYigUYhgMyCxAAGIAEGIoFGIYDMgsQABiABBiKBRiGAzILEAAYgAQYigUYhgNI6W1QuAtYgjxwAXgBkAEAmAG1BKAB0heqAQswLjguMC4yLjAuMrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCDaAC_BnCAgoQABhHGNYEGLADwgINEAAYgAQYigUYQxiwA8ICExAuGIAEGIoFGEMYyAMYsAPYAQHCAg4QLhiABBiKBRiRAhixA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgIFEAAYgATCAgUQLhiABMICHRAuGIAEGIoFGJECGLEDGJcFGNwEGN4EGN8E2AECwgILEC4YgAQYigUYkQLCAggQLhiABBjUApgDAIgGAZAGD7oGBAgBGAi6BgYIAhABGBSSBwkxLjcuMS4wLjQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp for the Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfD5rnkTws video
I struggle with dealing with problems created by people continuing to follow old habits that promote disease. Sometimes these are addictions with immediate gains or beliefs recommended by leaders that lead to illness or a low quality of life. It is a normal human tendency or behavior to believe authority figures such as parents, group leaders, or media stars. This may be helpful if they know more than the followers and the people in authority are correct with recommending behavior that will benefit the group or the followers. Unfortunately the leaders often just use their personal opinion without bothering to fact check or have open discussions and/or debates. When the leaders insist that their statements are true, then they become authoritarian leaders such as Trump or Putin or other numerous people who get self benefit by misleading their followers. The benefits may be for wealth or political gain or both for the authoritarian. For the followers of the authoritarians the harms may be in poverty, disease and death.

For those addicted: to worshipping a false leader, to using a substance, to ingesting unhealthy foods, and/or to activities that produce a short term high the activities are self sustaining in the short run but lead to poverty, disease, and death in the long run.

With Trump or Putin or other false leaders the loyalty to them and their beliefs keeps facts and true information from being used to benefit their followers. This tendency to deny real facts when a leader promotes a big lie counter to the facts, is called cognitive dissonance. It is a common problem for humans and our groups. Many Trump followers get less health promotion and pay more in taxes on a percentage basis than Trump. Putin followers die in needless numbers in Ukraine. People who become addicted to drugs, food, alcohol, cigarettes, product consumption, and sexual behavior may abuse themselves and others. Addictive behaviors out of control lead to poverty, disease and death.
It acts on expenditures and since the time of Albert Gallatin in the 1790's it has tried to oversee government administration.
Political and government experience is helpful. Knowledge of the needs of the people of the district they represent and of ways to help promote health and savings is most essential.
The USA must protect democracy internally and externally. We must develop secure and private information systems with multifactor authentication to avoid fake news, deep fakes, attacks from our enemies, and protect our physical and financial infrastructures. Already public, health, and financial institutions are suffering from cyber attacks including ransom wear and disruption of services, pipelines, social media, and false election information. With Artificial Intelligence ( AI or Augmented Intelligence) this will likely get worse and harder to detect without a special secure network controlled by an independent authority or agency without self-interest, bias, or prejudice overseen by non-partisans.

The private and secure information with only authenticated access will promote health and savings with protection from attacks.

It may be used to facilitate health, economic, transportation, nutrition, public utilities, education, housing, and environment operations and improvements for the good or all.
The 2 year term for representatives give the voting people of the district a chance to express themselves. This helps them feel impowered and gives the representative some feeling of how the people of the Congressional District feel.
It would like help to get more numbers of people into elected office with revolving office holders; however without public financing of elections the office holders may continue to be of higher incomes and with special economic interests that might work against the good of most people.
In this area Congressman Sherwood Boehlert was a traditional Republican model. He championed science, transportation, and a NAS (National Academy of Science) report on making the USA competitive in the world.
Our present Congress Person Claudia Tenney boosted about saving 15 billion dollars by cutting funds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in her letter to her constituents. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the cut would end up in reducing tax collections by 45 to 75 billion dollars. This would cost the USA government 30 to 60 billion dollars. Most everyone I talked to thought that it was a bad idea. Most people believe that those who can afford it should pay their fair share in taxes to help the government and if possible reduce the deficit.
Why did the cookie walk into my health promotion office? He was feeling crumby.
Yes but it should be done in a balanced manner to help the people most in need while doing it with savings.
As a public physician, I would like to make a House call for the good of the USA for the promotion of health and savings for all.
The investigative powers started by Congressman Albert Gallatin in 1790 are important. We should improve this role by creating and maintaining a secure and private well authenticated information system for the good of the public to track expenditures, programs, results, and problems.
see https://www.facebook.com/phill.congress.with.gioia/friends
I would like to help in health promotion, clean energy, information systems, and good nutrition.
Financial transparency in expenditures, programs, and results for families, groups and governments are essential to help them all function well and be evaluated correctly. Some areas of confidentiality may be needed for privacy and security but these should be restricted in scope and time due to the group needs for protection.

Currently we are involved in cyber warfare with at least Russia, China, North Korea , and Iran besides terrorists internal and external.
Due to the lack of security and authentication Russia helped swing the Elections of 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 in the favor of authoritarians. We should value authority based on facts, open discussion, and debate but authoritarians have only their leadership position to justify what they say. The dislike facts or debate if it gets in their way of what they want to do. Unfortunately, authoritarians often only benefit themselves, small groups of people, or small interest groups to the harm of the general population and most people. Lack of multifactor authentication makes it easy for big lies to spread and appear to be supported.
The Russian spy and informant Alexander Smirnov was believed by Congress but now his true identity is now and his ant-Biden testimony discredited.

To deal with facts, financing, problems and outcomes we need an integrated information system as suggested by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) in their report - Emerging Stronger from COVID-19: Priorities for Health System Transformation. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26657/emerging-stronger-from-covid-19-priorities-for-health-system-transformation for the complete report. It details how to transform our healthcare and health infrastructures to promote health and protect our public information systems for the benefit of all. This includes global financing for programs for the public good and the use of limited natural and social resources.

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Phillip Gioia campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House New York District 24Withdrew primary$212 $189
Grand total$212 $189
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