Law Medicine Lecture Series

Guest lecturer speaking in the Moot Courtroom

Each year the center invites a respected figure in health law scholarship to visit the law school as the Schroeder Scholar-in-Residence. The Schroeder Scholar, named in honor of the Center's founding director, takes part in classes and workshops, and delivers a public lecture, later published in Health Matrix

Schroeder Lecturers:

  • Stuart Bussey, President, Union of American Physicians and Dentists
  • Amy Acton, former Director, Ohio Department of Health
  • Christine Grady, Chief, department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health 
  • David Carome, Director, Health Research Group
  • Tammy Boyd, Black Women’s Health Imperative
  • Reed Tuckson, Director, Tuckson Health Connections
  • Sara Rosenbaum, George Washington University
  • Ali Khan, Dean, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Elizabeth Rosenthal, New York Times Correspondent
  • Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reprodiuctive Rights
  • Dr. Richard E. Besser, Chief Health and Medical Editor of ABC News
  • David Blumenthal, President, The Commonwealth Fund
  • Mark Chassin, President, The Joint Commission
  • Ralph Tyler III, Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Administration
  • Susan F. Wood, MD Former FDA Assistant Commissioner for Women's 
    President and CEO The Hastings Center 
  • Thomas H. Murray, PhD 
  • Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, Special Advisor on Health Care Office of Management and Budget, Obama Administration 
  • Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics; Chair, Department of Medical Ethics; Director, Center for Bioethics; University of Pennsylvania 
  • Stuart H. Altman, PhD Dean, The Heller School For Social Policy and Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor Of National Health Policy, Brandeis University 
  • Sidney Wolfe, MD Director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen Health and Director of The Office of Women's Health (2000-2005) 
  • Arnold Relman, MD Editor In Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine; Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Senior Physician, Brigham & Women's Hospital 
  • Mark B. Mcclellan, MD, PhD Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration 
  • Ron Pollack, Founding Executive Director, Families USA 
  • The Hon. Donna E. Shalala, United States Secretary Of Health And Human Services 
  • Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence, Oxford University, Professor of Law, New York University Law School 
  • George J. Annas, Director, Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program, Boston University 
  • Guido Calabresi, Dean, Yale Law School 
  • Don Harper Mills, Past President, American Academy of Forensic Sciences 
  • Alexander Morgan Capron, University Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Southern California 
  • John A. Robertson, Baker and Botts Professor of Law, University of Texas 

Mehlman Lecturers:

  • Chuck Hallberg, CEO Airotone
  • Seth Jacobs, Senior VP and General Counsel, Blue Cross Blue Shield of California
  • Paula Taylor Whitfield (‘83), Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company
  • Matt Herndon, Chief Legal Officer & Vice President of Government Affairs Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan
  • Katherine Hatton (LAW '80) Vice President, general Counsel and Secretary, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Bob Joondeph, Executive Director of Disability Rights, Oregon

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