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Distinguished Speaker Series for 2006-2007 The Center for Health Law Studies is pleased to announce its Distinguished Speaker Series for 2006-2007. As one of the leading centers for the teaching and study of the intersection of health care, law and policy, the Center is proud to welcome five distinguished individuals who make significant contributions to the development of Health Law and Policy. These leading scholars will share their insights with our students and faculty on a variety of topics during the coming academic year.
September 19, 2006 Kathleen Boozang Kathleen Boozang, who is currently serving as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Seton Hall Law School, came to academic administration after co-founding Seton Hall Law School’s nationally ranked Health Law & Policy Program and Health Law, Science and Technology Graduate Programs. Kathleen Boozang studied theology and business administration at Boston College, after which she received her J.D. from Washington University School of Law where she was Managing Editor of the Law Review and was inducted into Order of the Coif. In 2004, Washington University School of Law named Dean Boozang its Young Alum of the Year. In 1990, she received her LL.M. from Yale Law School. Dean Boozang practiced for several years, primarily representing a multi-state Catholic healthcare system. In recent years, Dean Boozang has served on several hospital ethics committees and chaired the Bioethics Committee for The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Dean Boozang served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics in 2003, is the past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics, and is a member of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. In 2005, Archbishop Meyer appointed Dean Boozang to the Board of Governors of Cathedral Healthcare System, Inc. Dean Boozang currently teaches Health Law, The Law of Death & Dying, Alternative Medicine and Non-Profit Organizations. Dean Boozang writes and speaks extensively on non-profit and corporate issues, alternative medicine, medical futility, end-of-life care and sectarian providers.
David O. Meltzer David O. Meltzer is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, and an associated faculty member in the Harris School and the Department of Economics. Meltzer's research explores problems in health economics and public policy, with a focus on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis, as well as the effects of managed care and medical specialization on the cost and quality of care, especially in teaching hospitals. Meltzer is currently completing a randomized trial comparing the use of doctors who specialize in inpatient care ("hospitalists") with traditional physicians in six academic medical centers. Meltzer received his M.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where he is also Co-Director of the M.D./Ph.D. program in the social sciences, and serves on the faculty of the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy, the Population Research Center, and the Center on Aging. Meltzer is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Institute of Health Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Economics, the University of Chicago Searle Fellowship, the Lee Lusted Prize of the Society for Medical Decision Making, the Health Care Research Award of the National Institute for Health Care Management, the Eugene Garfield Award from Research America, and the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Award. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served on panels examining the future of Medicare for the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. organ allocation policy for the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He is currently serving on an IOM panel examining the effectiveness of the US drug safety system.
Pamela H. Bucy Pamela H. Bucy is the Bainbridge Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law. She received her B.A. degree in 1975 from Austin College and her J.D. in 1978 from Washington University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation from law school. Professor Bucy served as law clerk to the Honorable Theodore McMillian of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 1980 through May 1987, Professor Bucy was an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. She served in the Criminal Division, specializing in prosecutions of white-collar criminal fraud. She established and served as coordinator of the Health Care Fraud Task Force for the Eastern District of Missouri. While with the U.S. Department of Justice, Professor Bucy served as an instructor of the appellate advocacy course in the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute. Her books include White Collar Crime, Cases and Materials (West 2nd ed. 1998), Health Care Fraud (Law Journal Seminars Press 1996), and Federal Criminal Law (with Abrams, Beale, and Welling 1998). Professor Bucy teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and White-Collar Crime and publishes in the areas of white-collar crime and health care fraud.
Peter D. Jacobson Peter D. Jacobson is Professor of Health Law and Policy in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the University’s Center for Law, Ethics and Health. He received his law degree from the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law in 1970, and a Masters in Public Health from UCLA in 1988. Before coming to the University of Michigan, he was Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND from 1988 to 1996. His current research interests focus on the relationship between law and health care delivery and policy, law and public health systems, and health care safety net services. In 1995, Peter received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine the role of the courts in shaping health care policy. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for Law and Health Systems. Its focus is on developing an empirical understanding of how law influences both the health care delivery system and the public health system. Professor Jacobson is working with the RAND Corporation on a project examining how the organization of public health systems affects preparedness efforts. He is the principal investigator of studies examining how to measure the value of public health services and how public health practitioners define and respond to ethical challenges. He is also the principal investigator on a project examining how communities in Michigan organize to provide mental health and diabetes care to uninsured populations. Professor Jacobson’s previous studies include ways to reduce youth smoking; the legislative and regulatory implications of defining and implementing medical necessity; the enforcement and implementation of antismoking laws; and the legal and regulatory influences on physician and hospital decisions to detect prenatal substance exposure.
Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., M.P.H. Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., M.P.H., is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Aetna Inc., one of the nation’s leading health care and related benefits organizations. Dr. Brennan reports to Ronald A. Williams, Aetna president and chief executive officer. In this role, Dr. Brennan directs Aetna’s National Quality Management and Clinical Policy units. He also provides oversight for Aetna’s National Medical Management unit, which includes our disease management programs and patient management services. Prior to joining Aetna, Dr. Brennan served as president and CEO of Brigham and Women’s Physician’s Organization from 2000-2006. Prior to these responsibilities, Brennan served as director of quality measurement and improvement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In these roles at Brigham and Women’s, he was responsible for managed care contract negotiations, designing both primary care and specialty medical management and incentive programs, and oversaw the merger of seven specialty physician foundations and eight hospital departments into a single physician organization. Dr. Brennan also served as a practicing internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital until 2006. In his academic work, he has served as professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1995, and professor of law and public health at Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Since 1987, he has published 230 peer-reviewed papers and four books. He is also a frequent presenter on health care policy, ethics and law. Dr. Brennan received his M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Yale Medical School, his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and his M.A. degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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