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Distinguished Speaker Series: 2002-2003
Governor Dean has announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2004. He became governor of Vermont in 1991 after serving in the Vermont House of Representatives and as the state’s lieutenant governor. He has worked to improve the state’s health care system, with a special focus on children’s issues. Under his leadership, Vermont guarantees health coverage to virtually every child in the state and has one of the highest rates of immunized children. Prior to beginning his political career, Governor Dean shared a medical practice with his wife. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1971 and his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in 1978.
Troy is the Chief Counsel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Previously, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where he specialized in constitutional and administrative law. Before joining the FDA, Mr. Troy was also an associate scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and has published articles in Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, the National Review, the Administrative Law Review and others. Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Troy served in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice as an attorney-advisor and was a lecturer at Columbia Law School. After graduation from Columbia Law School he clerked for Judge Robert Bork on the D.C. Circuit.
Professor Matthew is the Gallion and Baker Professor of Law and Medicine. She teaches both law and medical students Health Law Finance, Administration, Corporate Health Transactions, Medical Malpractice Litigation and Comparative Public Health Law. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky College of Law, Professor Matthew was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. She also practiced law in Kentucky at the law firm of Greenbaum, Doll and McDonald and in Virginia at McGuire Woods. Professor Matthew focused on the defense of medical care providers and corporate manufacturers in state, Federal and administrative courts. Professor Matthew received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard-Radcliffe and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She was an editor on the Virginia Law Review, won the school’s two-year Lile Moot Court Competition and taught as a Hardy Dillard Writing Fellow. Following graduation, she clerked for The Honorable John Charles Thomas on the Virginia Supreme Court. Professor Matthew has written articles on health and antitrust topics which have appeared in the Virginia Law Review, Houston Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, Journal of Law and Medicine, Indiana Law Journal and the Kentucky Law Journal. She is also the co-author of a chapter in Kentucky Health Law (2d ed.) entitled “Antitrust Law in the Health Care Industry.”
Judy Waxman is the Deputy Executive Director of Families USA, the national nonprofit health care voice for consumers, dedicated to the achievement of high quality affordable health and long-term care for all Americans. In this capacity, she represents the interests of consumers on Medicaid, Medicare, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, prescription drugs, patients’ bill of rights and access to health care issues. She chairs national coalitions of health groups, analyzes policy proposals, develops legislative and administrative strategy for Families USA and consumer coalitions, and is a frequently cited spokesperson on these issues in the media. She previously served as a Professional Staff Member with the Pepper Commission (The United States Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care), where she helped develop recommendations for universal health care coverage. Ms. Waxman has written extensively and lectured across the country on behalf of health care consumers and has been an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
In between college and law school, Professor Mehlman was a Rhodes Scholar; after law school he practiced with the Washington firm of Arnold & Porter before joining the School of Law faculty in 1984. Since 1986 he has been the director of the Law-Medicine Center. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (2000), co-author of a book, Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality (1998) and many articles on such topics as the fiduciary nature of the patient-physician relationship, disability law, access to health services under federal entitlement programs, and the Human Genome Project.
Congressman Gephardt has represented Missouri’s Third Congressional District since 1976. Today he plays a key role in American politics as the House Democratic Leader, the top Democratic leadership post in the House of Representatives. Before his elevation to the top Democratic spot, he served in several important leadership positions for the Democratic party including: Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, the fourth-ranking leadership post in the House; and Majority Leader, the second-ranking Democratic post in the House. In 1987 he became the first Democratic candidate to enter the 1988 presidential race. Congressman Gephardt is a national leader on health care, trade and tax fairness. He has authored the book, An Even Better Place: America in the 21st Century, which contains his analysis of the most pressing concerns affecting the American people in the new millennium.
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