Health Law Colloquium

Professor Sylvia Law

Fall 2008
Thursday, 4:00-6:50 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202
L13.3500.001
3 credits

This interdisciplinary colloquia will tackle problems in the United States in the 21st Century, exploring the intersections of health care, law, education, politics, and ethics. The class, comprised of medical, law and PhD students, will be regular participants and will write papers. Experts will help lead discussions. There are four central themes for this colloquium: 1) an exploration of the consequences that flow from characterizing an issue as social, medical, ethical, scientific, religious or legal, 2) the role of rights, and the complexity of constructing rules and often fragile enforcement mechanisms, 3) consideration whether policy is set or money raised at the federal, state, local, professional, family or individual level, 4) the pervasive influence of class, race and gender.

 

Fall 2008 Schedule of Presenters

August 28
"The historic roots of the organization of health care and health care financing in the United States:  Why did we make the choices we did?"

September 4
Bruce Vladeck, Senior Health Policy Advisor, Ernst & Young, former Director, U.S. Health Care Financing Administration
 "Access and Money: The crisis confronting the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, employers, and hospitals"

September 11
Dr. Anne-Marie Audet, Director Quality Improvement and Efficiency, The Commonwealth Fund
"Quality of Care 1: The Basics"

September 18
Susan Dooha, Executive Director, Center for Independence of the Disabled of New York
"Health Care for People with Disabilities"

September 25
William S. Bernstein, Partner, Chair, Healthcare Division, Manatt & Phelps
"Quality of Care II: Heath Information Technology: Policy, Politics and
Law. Also, the Periodic Malpractice Crisis"
 
October 2
Marianne Engleman Lado and Nisha Agerwall, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
"Race, Gender Disparities, and Language Access"

October 9
Nan Hunter, Georgetown University Law School (tentative)
"Public Health, with a Particular Focus on HIV"

October16
Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, Legal Services for Pregnant Women
"Reproductive Freedom"

October 23
"Health Care and Citizenship"

October 30
Dr. Penny Hollander Feldman, Vice-President, Research and Evaluation, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
"Long-Term Care"

November  6
Mary K. Pendergast, former Deputy Commissioner FDA, President, Pendergast Consulting
"Prescription Drugs"

November 13
Dr. David Muller, Associate Professor of Medical Education and Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center
"Palliative Care and Choice at the End of Life"

November 20
Richard Weishaupt, Senior Attorney, Philadelphia Legal Services
"Alternative Models of Health Care Delivery: Non-physician Health Care
Providers and Community Health Centers"

December 4
"The 21st Century  Debate on Health Care Organization and Financing in
the United States"


 

 



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