Distinguished Speaker Series

The Center for Health Law Studies is pleased to announce its Distinguished Speaker Series for 2008-2009. 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 four 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.

2008-2009 Distinguished Speaker Series Brochure
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OCTOBER 10 2008

Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs,
Transplantation, and the Market
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Mark J. Cherry, Ph.D.Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Edward’s University in Austin, Texas; co-editor with H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. of Allocating Scarce Medical Resources; senior associate editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; senior associate editor of Christian Bioethics; and editor-in-chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum (HEC Forum).

OCTOBER 17, 2008 — CHILDRESS MEMORIAL LECTURE

Still Crazy After All These Years
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Sandra H. Johnson
Professor Emerita, Saint Louis University School of Law

After a 30-year career at Saint Louis University School of Law, Sandra Johnson is now Professor Emerita of Law and Health Care Ethics. Johnson’s scholarship has helped form the field of health law. The casebook she co-authored in 1987, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, was the first to use the title of “health law.” Now in its 6th edition, the book has been used in more than 150 universities in the U.S. Johnson is also co-author of the treatise Health Law. The casebook and treatise have been cited over 500 times in scholarly articles and court opinions, including three citations by the U.S. Supreme Court. Her work on regulatory issues in pain management has had a significant impact on research and public policy. She directed the Mayday Project at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) for 10 years and developed the Mayday Scholars Program, which provided funding to encourage legal scholars to address issues related to improving pain management. Professor Johnson is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, a position she continues to hold, and is a Fellow of the Hastings Center. She served as president of ASLME in 1995-1996. She was honored as the Woman of the Year by the St. Louis Daily Record in 2002; Woman of the Year by Saint Louis University in 1997; and received the Distinguished Health Law Teacher Award from the American Society of Law & Medicine in 1991.  

Other scholars will include:

Scott Burris, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Diane Hoffmann, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Director, Law and Health Care Program, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law

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

William M. Sage, Vice Provost for Health Affairs, James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence, University of Texas School of Law

October 27, 2008
pre-election health policy and politics forum

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Moderator: Professor Thomas L. Greaney
The Health Policy Forum will discuss the intersection of politics and health policy from experts representing both sides of the aisle. 

Katherine Hayes
Vice President, Health Policy, Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc.

Prior to joining Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc., Katherine Hayes served as health counsel to Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana. Her accomplishments include the enactment of legislation to expand the availability of home- and community-based long-term care services for the elderly and individuals with disabilities, to increase private long-term care insurance options and to expand consumer protections in private long-term care insurance. Hayes also served as legislative assistant to the late Senator John H. Chafee (RI). During her tenure, she assisted in the development of the Senate Mainstream Coalition health reform proposal. She also worked to ensure passage of legislation establishing Federally Qualified Health Centers and reasonable-cost reimbursement to those centers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, severing the link between welfare and Medicaid as part of 1996 welfare reform legislation. Most recently, she helped develop Hillary Clinton’s health reform plan.

Mark Hayes
Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee Health Subcommittee  

JANUARY 27, 2009

Timothy Westmoreland
Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University, Senior Scholar,
Georgetown Health Law Institute, Research Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Professor Westmoreland holds academic posts in law and public policy at Georgetown University and was recently named Senior Scholar of the Georgetown Health Law Institute. He served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1995. Westmoreland taught in the Georgetown Law Center’s Federal Legislation Clinic and was counsel to the Koop-Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. He was senior adviser on HIV/AIDS to the Kaiser Family Foundation and lobbied for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. From 1999 until 2001, he was the director of the Federal Medicaid program. At Georgetown, he teaches about health law, federal budget policy, and legislation and statutory interpretation. He is a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Investigator in Health Policy Research Award. 

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Eleanor DeArman Kinney
Hall Render Professor of Law, Co-Director of the William S. and
Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University

Eleanor D. Kinney is one of the nation’s leading experts on health law. After earning her master’s degree in public health, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining Indiana University in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association. Kinney is a published author and lecturer on America’s health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor and issues in administrative law. She recently published Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Duke University Press, 2002) and edited the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals (ABA Publishing, 2002). Kinney was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, President Clinton’s Task Force for Health Care Reform and the Indiana Commission on Health Care for the Working Poor. She has been appointed by the governor of Indiana to the Executive Board of the Indiana State Department of Health. She currently serves as chair of the Patient Safety Subcommittee of the Indiana Commission on Excellence in Health Care.

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Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Everett Fraser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota

Goodwin began her teaching career in 2001 at DePaul University College of Law, where she held the Wicklander Chair in Ethics and was a professor of law. She directed the Health Law Institute and founded the Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics. Prior to teaching, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. She focuses her research on property, ownership and identity in the human body. Her recent book, Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006), builds upon scholarship exploring causes of organ shortages and methods to remedy that policy conundrum. Her scholarship debates the significance of moral, ethical and legal norms in transactions involving the human body. In 2003, she was elected Secretary General of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. She also holds joint appointments in the Medical School and the School of Public Health at Minnesota. She is the Chair Elect of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care and is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.

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