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Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy

Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s faculty members are nationally renowned experts in their fields who have earned a reputation for excellence in teaching, publishing, speaking, and public policy—and whose scholarship has a significant impact. Here are some of the many recent publications authored by our health law faculty.

John D. Blum

Beazley Chair in Health Law and Policy

Articles:

  • Public Health Preparedness and Response: An Exercise in Administrative Law, 20 DePaul J. Health Care L. 1 (2019)(with Jordan Paradise).
  • Tobacco Product Warnings in the Midst of Vaping: A Retrospective on the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, accepted for publication Chapman L. Rev.

Honors & Activities:

  • Editor Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Special Issue commemorating the 43rd Health Law Teachers Meeting.
  • Program Planning Chair, World Association for Medical Law Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada 2020.
  • Vice Chair, ABA Health Law Student Writing Competition.
Ron Hochbaum

Clinical Teaching Fellow, Health Justice Project

Articles:

  • Bathrooms as a Homeless Rights Issue, 98 N.C. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2019).

Honors & Activities:

  • Appointed Editor of the Clinical Legal Education Association Newsletter.
Ryan D. Meade

Director, Regulatory Compliance Studies

Articles:

  • Executive Power Today; Something More Ancient than the Prerogative, forthcoming J. Am. Legal Stud. (2019).
  • Social Justice: Reclaiming the Term, forthcoming Oxford Phil. Soc’y Rev. (2019).
  • When Should or Shouldn’t Human Law Change? Ethics and Assessing Legal Code, forthcoming & Just. (2020).

Presentations:

  • Panelist, Preparing Practice-Ready Health Law Attorneys, ASLME Health Law Professors Conference, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, June 5, 2019.
  • Stark Law & Anti-kickback Statute Primer, Health Care Compliance Association Academy, 20, 2019, Chicago, IL and Aug. 7, 2019, New York, NY.
  • Case Studies in Clinical Research Billing Risk, Research Compliance Conference, Health Care Compliance Association, Orlando, FL, June 9, 2019.

Honors & Activities:

  • Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall
  • Visiting Fellow, Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford
L. Kate Mitchell

Director, Health Justice Project

Articles:

  • The Promise and Failures of Children’s Medicaid and the Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships as Monitors and Advocates, forthcoming 30 HEALTH MATRIX (2020).

Presentations:

  • Preparing Students to be Interdisciplinary Collaborators for Change, AALS Conference on Clinical Education, San Francisco, May 2019 (with Yulanda Curtis, Crystal Grant, Samir Hanna, Rachael Kohl, & Dana Thompson).
  • Breaking Down Barriers: Medical-Legal Partnerships Enhance Access to Care for Youth with Cerebral Palsy, American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine 72nd Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Oct. 2018 (with Rita Ayyangar, MBBS, Virginia Nelson, MD, MPH, and Brittany Shupe-Sawyer, MSW).

Honors & Activities:

  • Loyola University’s Health EQ Award to fund an interprofessional collaboration, Health EQ IPE, supporting interdisciplinary work for development of educational offerings for students across law, medicine, nursing, social work, environmental studies, business, and public health.
Jordan K. Paradise

Georgia Reithal Professor of Law

Articles:

  • Nanomedicine & the FDA, 21(4) AMA J. Ethics E347 (2019).
  • 21st Century Citizen Pharma, 44 J. L. & Med. 309 (2018).
  • Regulatory Silence at the FDA, 102 L. Rev. 2383 (2018).

Presentations:

  • Law & Ethics of Citizen Science, Participant-Driven Research, and Precision Medicine, Democratizing Medicine in  Data and Tech-Driven World, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Mar. 14, 2019.
  • Regulation of Biosimilars at the FDA: Current Trends and Challenges, Biosimilar Innovation, University of California Irvine School of Law, Feb. 8, 2019.
  • 21st Century Citizen Pharma, FDA: Past, Present & Future, American University Washington School of Law, Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 2018.

Honors & Activities:

  • Chair, Biolaw Section, AALS
  • Editorial Board Member, AHLA Journal of Health Law & Life Sciences
  • Academic Committee Member, Food & Drug Law Institute
Nadia N. Sawicki

Georgia Reithal Professor of Law; Academic Director, Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy

Articles:

  • The Conscience Defense to Malpractice, 108 L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020).
  • Disentangling Conscience Protections, 48(5) Hastings Center Rep. 15 (2018).
  • Choosing Medical Malpractice, 93 L. Rev. 891 (2018).

Presentations:

  • The Conscience Defense to Malpractice: A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Conscience Laws Relating to Reproductive Health Care, Health Law Grand Rounds, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Mar. 2019.
  • Assumption of Risk and the Medical Malpractice Conundrum, Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 2019.
  • Respecting Patient Autonomy in Labor and Delivery, Cleveland Clinic Bioethics Grand Rounds, Dec. 2018.

Honors & Activities:

  • Member, Illinois General Assembly Home Birth Maternity Care Crisis Study Committee
  • Co-Section Editor, Jotwell Health Law
  • Participant, Cleveland Clinic Clinical Ethics Immersion Program (2018)
Larry E. Singer

Associate Dean of Online Learning; Director, Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy

Publications:

  • The Law of Medical Practice in IL (3d ed. Thompson Reuters 2018) (with Robert Kane).
  • The Law of Medical Practice in IL (3d ed. Thompson Reuters 2019) (with Robert Kane).
  • Considering the ACA’s Impact on Hospital and Physician Consolidation, 46 L. Med. & Ethics 913 (2018).

Presentations:

  • Considering the ACA’s Impact on Hospital and Physician Consolidation, Next Steps in Health Reform, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2018.
  • Analyzing Arguments Favoring and Refuting Medicare for All Proposals, Next Steps in Health Reform, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2019.

Honors & Activities:

  • Board Member, ASLME