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News2004-2005New Public Health Law Program launched!This year, the Center launched its new Public Health Law program under the leadership of Indy Law graduate Heather McCabe,’03, MSW, JD. This program will spearhead the Center’s growing activities in law and public health. With Professor David Orentlicher in the Indiana House of Representatives, the Center has become increasingly involved with public health and state health policy issues. In April 2005 the Center joined forces with the Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death, a program of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children. This partnership will focus on public health research and scholarship on violent injury and death. The partnership brings together over 40 departments and programs at IU Medical Center, Riley Hospital, professional medical associations, individuals, faith communities and civic and government organizations from around the state. Indiana Health Law Review Enters Third Year
Center Conference on Childhood DisabilitiesOn June 17, 2005, the Center along with the Riley Child Development Center and Indiana State Department of Education hosted the Third Annual Childhood Disabilities Conference: Children with Disabilities in the Child Welfare System. The Conference attracted approximately 100 social workers, nurses, doctors, administrators, as well as lawyers. News of Center FacultyEleanor Kinney, Co-Director of the Center was elected Chair of the Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association. Prof. Kinney’s article, Administrative Law Approaches to Medical Malpractice Reform appeared in the Symposium on “Administrative Law Meets Health Law” in 49 St. Louis University Law Journal. With Professor Bill Sage of Columbia Law School, Professor Kinney has a grant from the Commonwealth Fund to explore Medicare-led malpractice reform. David Orentlicher, Co-Director of the Center just started his 2nd term in the General Assembly where he serves on the Health Finance Commission. Prof. Orentlicher has been working to amend a bill that would have forced many infertile couples out of the state of Indiana to have a child. As a legislator, Prof. Orentlicher has formed a group that is working on Medicaid reform in Indiana.
Since Fall 2004, Professor Katz has served as an American Bar Association advisor to the committee revising the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). He was on the panel that presented the committee’s proposed revisions to the NCCUSL’s commissioners at their annual meeting in July, 2005. |
The Indiana Health Law Review, just entering its third year, was ranked second by Express-O, an organization with an online method for authors to submit articles for publication. This year, the law review is planning a symposium on “pay for performance.” The symposium will be held in conjunction with the McDonald Merrill Ketcham Award and Lectureship in Spring 2006.
Jennifer Drobac is expanding the Center’s expertise in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. A trustee of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Professor Drobac participated in a site inspection of loveLife youth HIV/AIDS programs throughout South Africa. (Pictured are Jennifer Drobac, right, with Julia Zungu, Provincial Director of the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa’s in KwaZulu-Natal)
Rob Katz was selected to present a work-in-progress, The Relationship Between Nonprofit and For-profit Firms in the Tissue Transplantation Industry: A Nonprofit Law Perspective, at the Health Law Scholars Workshop, held at St. Louis University (SLU) School of Law in September 2004. The workshop, co-sponsored by the Center for Health Law Studies at SLU and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, selects four emerging health law scholars each year for this prestigious program. Professor Katz presented subsequent versions of the paper at the annual conference of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in October 2004, and at the Annual Health Law Teachers Conference in June 2005. The article will appear in a symposium in the DePaul Law Review as part of its symposium issue entitled “Precious Commodities–The Supply and Demand of Body Parts.”