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W.H. Brady Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Lecturer (Psychiatry), Yale University School of Medicine

Sr. Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Quality & Risk Management, Patient Care Services, Clinical Operations Support, Kaiser Permanente; Former Commissioner, New York State Department of Health

Amanda Kowalski, health economist at Yale School of Management, has her work on the impact of the Affordable Care Act profiled in the Washington Post.

Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine; Former Dean, Yale School of Medicine; Former Commissioner, US Food & Drug Administration

Professor Thad Pope of Hamline University will be discussing the decline of medical professional self-regulation. The event is Friday, March 28, at 12:10 pm in room 112. Lunch will be provided. Professor Pope is also a national expert on medical futility and end-of-life decisions, and he'll be speaking about those issues at the medical school on Thursday at 4:30pm. "The Decline of Medical Self-Regulation." In their classic Torts treatise, Prosser & Keeton observe that the law “gives the medical profession . . . the privilege, which is usually emphatically denied to other groups, of setting...

Day in the Life with Laura Hoey Interested in white collar work, representing health care companies, or in a career as an AUSA and in a law firm's government enforcement practice? We hope you'll join us for Day in the Life with Laura Hoey, YLS 2001, from 3-4 PM on 2-27-14! After graduating from YLS in 2001, Laura clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr., on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and then joined Ropes & Gray as an associate. Laura then became the Health Care Fraud Coordinator in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock...

ACS Policy Chat #1: Health Care ...Or Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the American Health Care System and Were Afraid to Ask Featuring: Sarah Grusin, Christine Monahan, Julian Prokopetz, and Mike Shapiro Taft 12F, 265 College Street Tuesday, February 25th, 7:30-9PM ACS will provide snacks, BYOB YLS student experts will provide an overview of key issues in health policy/law, including the ACA, insurance exchanges, Medicaid expansion, Medicare, Health IT, and more, and answer all your questions. Attendees will also have ample time to talk to each other one-on-one and in small groups...

Feb 10th, 2014 - 127 Wall Street, Room 124 (at 10:30), Room 127 (at noon) How do trade negotiations impact health? Now that free trade agreements contain complex regulatory subject matter—including detailed intellectual property provisions that impact Internet law and health policy—should they still be negotiated through comparatively opaque regimes? Is true opacity even possible in the Internet Age? Is there an ideal middle ground, allowing increased Congressional involvement, or for the public release of texts after a period of time? Panels will look at these questions from U.S. and...

Health Insurance Exchange Implementation: Early Challenges and Opportunities Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:30am to 5:15pm Breakfast and lunch provided. Sterling Law Building Yale Law School 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511 Yale Law School is proud to host the first Yale Health Law and Policy Society Conference. The theme of the conference is “Health Insurance Exchange Implementation: Early Challenges and Opportunities.” The conference will feature keynote speaker Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D, the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution...