Mark A. Hall

Professor of Law and Public Health, Wake Forest University

Office: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC 27109-7206 Telephone: (336) 758-4476

Mark A. Hall is Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University School of Law and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. He is also an Associate in Management at the Babcock School of Management, all of which are located in Winston-Salem, NC. Prof. Hall received his law degree with highest honors at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Arizona State University before assuming his present position. He has also completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Finance Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Hall specializes in health care law and public policy, with a focus on economic, regulatory and corporate issues. His present research interests include health care reform, health care rationing, managed competition, integrated delivery systems, and insurance market reform. He is the author or editor of ten books on health care law and policy, including the 4-volume series Health Care Corporate Law (Aspen) and Making Medical Spending Decisions (Oxford University Press).

Mary Anne Bobinski

Dean and Professor of Law, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law

Office: University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1 Telephone: (604) 822-2818

Mary Anne Bobinski is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.  Previously, she was John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.  She received her B.A. and J.D. degrees, both summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Max Rosenn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Bobinski teaches Torts, the basic health law courses, and various advanced courses in the health law field. Her research interests include health care financing, legal aspects of HIV infection, and reproductive health issues. She is a co-author of another leading law school casebook, AIDS Policy and Law, and has authored a number of law review articles and book chapters on health law topics. Professor Bobinski is an active participant in national, state, and local service activities. She is a member of the ABA Section on Legal Education Curriculum Committee and the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Curriculum and Research. Professor Bobinski also is the past-chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care and is a past-board member of the Texas Human Rights Foundation and the Bar Association for Human Rights of Houston. She has given over 100 talks to national, state, and local audiences on health care topics ranging from health care finance, to medical malpractice, to legal aspects of e-health.

David Orentlicher

Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Office: Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-3225 Telephone: (317) 274-4993

David Orentlicher is Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He also is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Before coming to Indiana University, he served as the Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association, where he drafted ethical guidelines for the medical profession on a wide range of issues. Dr. Orentlicher is a member of the American Law Institute and from 1992-1995, he served on the founding board of the American Association of Bioethics. He received his M.D. and J.D. degrees from Harvard, was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and clerked for the Hon. Alvin B. Rubin, U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit. He practiced medicine and law each for approximately two years. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles in leading legal and medical journals, and has served on a variety of task forces, on ethical and legal issues in medicine. He has most recently written about health care reform, cost containment and assisted reproduction. During the 1997-98 academic year, he was the Visiting DeCamp Professor in Bioethics at Princeton University, and from November 2002 and November 2008, he served three terms as a state representative in the Indiana General Assembly.

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