Distinguished Speaker Series for 2000-2001

Randall R. Bovbjerg
Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute, Health Policy Center

A renowned specialist in legal issues related to health care, medical injury, health insurance and safety net provisions for the uninsured, Bovbjerg has 25 years of experience as a state regulator, lawyer and educator. He is an authority on public medical programs, private health insurance, the changing marketplace for medical services and financing, public administration, regulation and the law. 
Bovbjerg's specialty area of research at the Urban Institute is conducting studies on medical injury, malpractice and liability and reform. He has led numerous research projects and testified about tort reform before Congress, at state health reform commissions and the Physician Payment Review Commission. He has served as advisor to task forces of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Governors Association, the Domestic Policy Council and the Institute of Medicine. He serves currently on the Board of the Journal of Politics, Policy and Law. Formerly a co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, he was a practicing state insurance regulator in Massachusetts before joining the Institute. In that position, he was instrumental in developing policy on health insurance and prepayment, licensure of IPA-HMOs and rate regulation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Nancy Neveloff Dubler
Director of the Division of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine; Director of the Law and Ethics Consultation Service and Professor of Bioethics, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Co-director, Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing at New York University

Professor Dubler founded the Bioethics Consultation Service at Montefiore Medical Center in 1978, as a support for analysis of difficult cases presenting ethical issues in health care. She is a consultant to numerous federal agencies, national working groups and bioethics centers and served as co-chair of the Bioethics Working Group for the National Health Care Reform Task Force.
A prolific lecturer, she has authored numerous books and articles on termination of care, home care and long-term care, geriatrics, prison and jail health care and AIDS. In 1993, Dubler published Ethics on Call: Taking Charge of Life and Death Choices in Today’s Health Care System by Vintage. In 1994, she published Mediating Bioethical Disputes by the Hospital Fund in New York City. She also founded the Journal of Prison and Jail Health: Medicine, Law, Corrections and Ethics, and served as editor from 1979 to 1994. She earned her A.B. from Barnard College. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She earned her LL.B. from Harvard Law School.

Joan H. Krause
Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Institute for Health Law

With a background as a medical writer and editor in the pharmaceutical industry prior to law school, Krause is a leading authority on regulatory and administrative health care matters with an emphasis on health care fraud and abuse. Prior to her position at Loyola School of Law, she was an associate with the Health Practice Group of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. In that position, Krause’s research projects included Medicare, Medicaid, ERISA, quality of care, health care fraud and abuse and regulation of assisted living facilities. She also represented clients in Civil False Claims Act negotiations and litigation and researched legal actions against Christian Scientists whose children died while being treated by spiritual healing. While attending law school, Krause was the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys. She is an advisor to the Health Law Society and the Women’s Law Society at Loyola. She serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Health Law. Krause has published numerous articles in law journals on managed care, Medicare and Medicaid and fraud and abuse.

Theodore R. Marmor
Professor of Political Science and Professor of Public Policy and Management, Yale University School of Management

A nationally-recognized expert on the politics and economics of the modern welfare state, Professor Marmor has advised the White House and testified before Congress on matters related to health care, social security and poverty. He has actively participated in debates on these and other political and public policy issues both on national and regulatory levels. Marmor has written and lectured extensively on these subjects, as well as responding to media inquiries and advising the government bodies responsible for formulating public policy. His consultant activities include the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, President’s Commission on Income Maintenance, the National Institute for Mental Health and the Congressional Committee on Ways and Means. He has served on the boards of directors for the National Academy for Social Insurance, the Center for the Study of Drug Development and the International Advisory Board of the London School of Economics. Marmor has published widely about health care policy and reform and social security. He recently published the second edition of The Politics of Medicare and he co-authored America’s Misunderstood Welfare State. He also authored Understanding Health Care Reform, published by Yale University Press.

Robert L. Schwartz
Professor of Law, University of New Mexico Law School

Professor Schwartz is a nationally-recognized scholar in the sub-specialty of Bioethics in Health Law. In addition to his health law instruction, he regularly teaches courses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where he was appointed Professor of Pediatrics. His focus in health law was prompted by research on the regulation of the drug Laetrile. His research resulted in two articles and one was reprinted in the American Bar Association Journal. Schwartz was then launched into this area of legal study. He is co-author of Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, the leading health law textbook in the country. The textbook is now in its 3rd edition. Schwartz contributed the chapters that address Bioethics. After earning his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Stanford University, he went on to study law at Harvard Law School. During the summer before he graduated, he joined an Albuquerque law firm and then worked as a clerk for the High Court of American Samoa. Schwartz returned to the firm to practice one more year, but felt compelled to enter the academic arena of his profession. Schwartz joined the University of New Mexico in 1976.

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