Harold J. Bressler:
Mr. Bressler' serves as the General Legal Counsel at the Joint Commission. In this role, he is responsible for all
legal matters. Prior to joining The Joint Commission in
1985, he was an associate and partner in the Chicago law firm of McDermott, Will &
Emery. There, he worked in the litigation and antitrust department.
Before joining the Chicago-based firm, he was a trial attorney in Washington, D.C.,
with the antitrust division of the Department of Justice.
In addition to his duties as general counsel,
Mr. Bressler has served as an adjunct professor of law at DePaul and Loyola Schools
of Law, Chicago. At both universities, he teaches antitrust law in the
health care field.
Mr. Bressler earned his bachelor’s degree
from the University if Illinois, Champaign, Illinois,
and his juris doctorate from Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago.
Nathan Cortez:
Mr. Cortez serves as an
Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Professor Cortez teaches and writes in the
areas of health law, FDA law, administrative law, and the legislative
process. His scholarship focuses on international and comparative health
law and regulation, particularly the regulation of emerging international
markets in health care and biotechnology. He has published in the
peer-reviewed Food and Drug Law Journal, and has a forthcoming article
in the Indiana Law Journal. Professor Cortez has also written
articles for the Computer & Internet Lawyer, the Journal of
Payment Systems Law, and the ABA's
National Institute on White Collar Crime, and contributed a chapter for a
forthcoming book, Preclinical Safety Evaluation of Biopharmaceuticals.
Before joining the SMU law faculty, Professor
Cortez practiced with the Washington,
D.C., law firm Arnold &
Porter, where he represented medical technology clients in administrative,
legislative, litigation, and corporate matters, with a special emphasis on
health care fraud and abuse, FDA enforcement, and health privacy. While
at Arnold & Porter, Professor Cortez litigated pro bono cases with the
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and was a Board
Member of the D.C. Hispanic Bar Foundation. In 2006, he was a Visiting
Assistant Professor at Rutgers-Camden
Law School.
He teaches courses in administrative law, health law, FDA law, and the
legislative process.
Dr. Mark L. Flear:
Dr. Flear is a Lecturer in Law and Library Officer at Queen's University
Belfast. Mark completed his undergraduate studies in
law and politics with First Class Honours at the University of Lincoln, England,
United Kingdom
in 2000. After a year of work and travel, Mark returned to education and
completed an LLM (Joint Masters) in European Law at the University
of Nottingham and the University of Maastricht in 2002, with funding being
awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In the summer of
2002, Mark studied European Union law at the Academy
of European Law, European University
Institute, Florence. In 2002 Mark began his PhD at the University of Nottingham, with funding again being awarded
by the AHRC. The thesis uses a constructivist or sociological institutionalist
perspective to determine whether the free movement of persons (especially the
freedom of movement for patients) in European Community law causes change in
health care systems. The thesis was completed and awarded in 2006. During his time at Nottingham,
Mark taught EU Constitutional Law and EC Trade Law. Mark is a member of the
Society of Legal Scholars (http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/text/index.cfm)
and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (http://www.uaces.org/)
Mark joined the School
of Law at Queen’s University Belfast,
Northern Ireland, UK
in 2005. Mark represents the School of Law on the Northern Ireland Ethics Forum
(http://www.qub.ac.uk/methics/index.html),
and is on the School’s Ethics Committee.
Mark is the lead organiser and iniator for the Annual School of Law
Workshop 2008 ‘Biotechnology, European
Law and Citizens’. The British Academy has awarded Mark funding for his
project ‘EU Governance in AIDS, Cancer
and Obesity: Governmentality,
Citizenship and Polity’. During the
summer of 2008 Mark will be a visiting academic at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
Scott Greer, Ph.D.:
Mr. Greer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and
Policy at the University
of Michigan's
School of Public Health. Professor Greer does research on the consequences for health policy and
the welfare state of federalism, decentralization, and European integration.
His work focuses especially on the United Kingdom
and the development of health policy in England,
Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has also done research on
health politics and federalism in the United
States, Canada,
and Spain.
Before coming to Michigan, he taught at the University of London. He currently directs a two-year
project on the consequences for health services and citizenship rights of
trends towards both decentralization and the development of European Union
powers in health.
Johan van de Gronden:
Mr. van de Gronden was appointed as Professor of European
Law at the Faculty of Law of the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. In 1998, he got his PH.D. Degree. His PH.D. research was about the
implementation of EC environmental law by decentralised authorities. From 1998
until September 2007 Johan van de Gronden worked at the Europa Institute of the
University Utrecht (the Netherlands).
From June 2003 until September 2007 he was a senior lecturer/researcher at this
institute. Since 1st of September 2007 he is a professor of European law in Nijmegen.
His research focuses on EU internal market law, competition law and the
relationship between these law areas and (national) policies regarding issues
of general interest (like health care). Since October 2003 he is also a deputy
judge at the District court of Rotterdam
(additional function). As a judge he mainly handles competition law cases.
Vassilis Hatzopoulos:
Mr. Hatzopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of
Thrace (Greece),
a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium)
and a Member of the Athens Bar. Vassilis Hatzopoulos studied commercial Law
in the University
of Strasbourg (Maîtrise),
EC law in the College of Europe in Bruges (DEEA) and International Law in the
University of Cambridge (LL.M). His Ph.D Thesis, “Le principe communautaire
d’équivalence et de reconnaissance mutuelle dans la libre prestation de
services” (EC Principle of Mutual Recognition and Equivalence in the Field of
Free Provision of Services), presented at the University of Strasbourg,
was published by Bruylant/Sakkoulas (1999). In 2006 he spent six months as a
Jean Monnet Fellow at the University
of Michigan.
He started his academic career as an
assistant at the Legal Department of the College of Europe, Bruges,
during 1993-1995 and has taught as a visiting Professor at the University of Athens,
the National School of Public Administration (Athens)
and the Summer Academy of the EUI/Florence. Currently,
he is a full-time Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace.
He also teaches a 25-hour seminar on the “Area of Freedom, Security and
Justice” (in French) at the College of Europe, Bruges. He is member of the board of editors
in several Greek law journals and a regular contributor to the Common Market
Law Review.
He works as an Attorney-in-Law in Athens since 1995,
specializing in Internal Market, public procurement and internet law. He has
been advising the Secretary General of Commerce (2000-2002) on issues of
simplification of the business environment and regulatory reform and the Greek
Rail Organisation (OSE, 2002-2004) on issues of market deregulation and
competition. He has also participated as a member of the Greek delegation at
the OECD regulatory reform assessment and at several EC benchmarking exercises,
under the auspices of the Lisbon
strategy.
Eleanor D. Kinney, JD, MPH:
Ms. Kinney is a Hall Render Professor of Law and Co-Director, William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana
University School of Law - Indianapolis.
She is the founding
director of the school’s internationally recognized William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, which is one of the
nation’s leading experts on health law. After graduating from law school, she
practiced law for four years, then worked as an estate planning officer for Duke University
Medical Center
for two years. After earning her master’s degree in public health, she served
as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.
Immediately prior to joining the faculty in 1984, she was assistant general
counsel of the American Hospital Association.
A widely published author and respected lecturer on the subjects of America’s
health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor, and
issues in administrative law, Professor Kinney is author or co-author of
numerous law review articles, book chapters and book reviews. She recently
published Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Duke University
Press 2002) and edited the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and
Appeals (ABA Publishing 2002).
Professor Kinney has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of
the United States,
President Clinton’s Task Force for Health Care Reform, and the Indiana
Commission on Health Care for the Working Poor. She has been appointed by the
governor of Indiana
to the Executive Board of the Indiana State Department of Health and to other
task forces and advisory boards. She currently serves as chair of the Patient
Safety Subcommittee of the Indiana Commission on Excellence in Health Care.
During 1999-2000, Professor Kinney taught and conducted research as a Fulbright
Fellow at the National University of La Plata in La Plata, Argentina.
She founded the school's Latin American Law Summer Program and served as its
executive director until 2007. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the
IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and at the IU School of Medicine.
Thomas R. McLean, MD, MS, JD, FACS:
Dr. McLean's titles include Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, the UMKC
School of Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor
of Surgery University of Kansas; Attending Surgeon at the Truman Medical
Center, Kansas City Mo.; and Eisenhower VAMC,
Leavenworth, Kansas;
Regional Medical Consultant, Social Security Administration, Kansas
City, Mo. Analyst, Third
Millennium Consultants, LLC., Shawnee,
Ks.
Christopher Newdick:
Mr. Newdick is a Professor of Health Law at the University of Reading's School of Law (United Kingdom). He currently teaches courses
on medical law and contract law. He has retained his interests in that area, in
particular in the field of National Health Service law and the rights and
duties of doctors patients and health service managers. He is a member of the
Berkshire Priorities Committee and honorary consultant to Reading PCT. He
served on the Department of Health's Medicine's Commission until 2000.
Diane Romza-Kutz:
Ms. Romza-Kutz is a member of the firm of Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C. in Chicago, Illinois. Ms.
Romza-Kutz also is a member of EBG's National Health Care Steering Committee
and Strategic Planning Committee.
Louise G. Trubek:
Louise G. Trubek is a Clinical Professor at the University of
Wisconsin Law School. Louise is a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin and the Yale Law School. She teaches Health Law and
Regulatory Governance. Louise directs the Health Law Project. Current information on the
Health Law courses, related externships, and the Health Law Project can
be located at the Health Law Project website.
Louise is an active scholar in the field of Health Law. Her article
with Maya Das, "Achieving Equality: Healthcare Governance in
Transition" won an award for excellence from the Wisconsin Public
Health and Policy Institute at the UW Medical School. She is the author
of papers on health care, new governance, and soft law. She is an
editor of the March 2008 special issue of the journal
Regulation&Governance. Louise is on the board of directors of the
Wisconsin United for Health Foundation.
In fall 2007, Louise co-taught a course entitled "Problems in Administrative Law: Regulatory Reform" with
Prof. David. M. Trubek. This seminar includes readings and research on
U.S and European Union healthcare and environmental governance. David
and Louise Trubek are researching and writing on regulatory reform
topics in the United States and the European Union. Click here to see the WISGAR website.
Louise continues to write and teach on public interest lawyering,
particularly linking domestic and international lawyering. In 2005,
she lectured on new developments in clinical legal education at law
schools in Colombia, South America. Her article "Crossing Boundaries:
Legal Education and the New Public Interest Law" is published in the
2005 Wisconsin Law Review. She is the co-facilitator of a working
group entitled "After Public Interest Law: Global Perspectives on
Social Transformation," This group is publishing a special issue of the
UCLA International Law Journal in 2008.
She is the co-author with Julie Nice of the casebook "Poverty Law:
Theory and Practice," published by West Publishing in 1997, with a 1999
Supplement.
Mark Nance
Mark Nance is a Ph.D.
candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in
International Relations, with an emphasis on the political economy of
international organizations. His dissertation examines the factors that
determine the impact that non-binding governance networks can have within the
framework of global governance, drawing evidence from social policy and
anti-money laundering networks. He expects to complete the dissertation
in 2008. In the past he has worked on the use of “new governance” in
diverse policy areas, including fiscal and environmental policy. He also
is working currently on the use of new governance in counter-terrorism
cooperation.
Co-Contributor to Ms. Trubek and Mr. Nance's article is:
Tamara Hervey
Tamara Hervey's main research interests
are in the field of European Union social and constitutional law, in particular
its application in health fields, social security and welfare, and
non-discrimination. She is interested in the phenomenon of 'new governance' in
the EU, in particular as an alternative or supplement to 'command and control'
means of regulation in social fields. She has published on the European Union´s
competence in social fields, especially health law; on the regulation of
tobacco in the EU context; on European public health law and policy; on the
governance of stem cell research in the EU; on EU non-discrimination law and
minority rights; and on the 'right to health' in European contexts. She is interested in socio-legal theory and method, in particular as applied to the
law of the European Union.
Moderators
Nils Ringe (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2006) is
an assistant
professor of European Politics in the Department of Political Science at
the University
of Wisconsin,
Madison. His research
and teaching
interests are European Union politics (in particular the institutions of
the European Union), political parties, legislatures, and elections. He
is currently working on a book manuscript on the role of political
parties and legislative committees in the decision-making processes of
the European Parliament. Additional research projects include an
examination of voting patterns in local elections in Central and Eastern
Europe and comparative social network analyses of
Congress and the
European Parliament.
Kai P. Purnhagen is a researcher at the European
University Institute
in Florence and Managing
Editor of the European Journal of Legal
Studies. Before joining the European University Institute, he was a
Giessen Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and
a legal assistant at the international law firm
FreshfieldsBruckhausDeringer. Kai holds a German State Exam in law
(J.D. equivalent) and a Master of Laws from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Adam J. Tutaj is a
shareholder with the Milwaukee
law firm of Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols S.C., where he practices in
the areas of corporate, tax and health law.
Mr. Tutaj has extensive experience representing physicians and physician
organizations, and is a frequent speaker and author on a variety of tax matters. He received his law degree, magna cum laude,
from Marquette University Law
School. Mr. Tutaj is the current chair of the Health
Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin and is a former co-chair of the Tax
Section of the Milwaukee Bar Association.
Louise G. Trubek - please see her bio above.
