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Christie
Hager, J.D., M.P.H.
Office of the Speaker of the Massachusetts House
Christie Hager is Chief Health Counsel
to Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,
Salvatore F. DiMasi. Previously, she served as Deputy Director
of the Division of Public Health Practice at Harvard School of
Public Health. She was Director of the Massachusetts Health
Policy Forum from 1999-2003 at the Schneider Institute for
Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School.
She is appointed to the faculty in Health Policy and Management
at the Harvard School of Public Health, at the University of
Connecticut School of Medicine, and at Suffolk University Law
School, where she teaches courses on health law and state health
policy. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New
England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Law and
Medicine.
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Timothy Jost, J.D.
Washington and Lee University
School of Law
Timothy Jost, J.D., holds the Robert
L.
Willett Family Professorship of Law at the Washington
and Lee University School of Law. He is a coauthor
of a casebook, Health Law, used widely throughout
the United States in teaching health law, and of a
treatise and hornbook by the same name. He is also the author of
Health
Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative
Study;
Disentitlement? The Threats Facing our Public Health Care
Programs and
a Rights-Based Response, and Readings in Comparative Health Law
and
Bioethics. He has also written numerous articles and book
chapters on health
care regulation and comparative health law and policy, and has
lectured on
health law topics throughout the world. He is currently
completing a book on
consumer-driven health care.
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Lawrence Singer, J.D., M.H.S.A.
Professor Larry Singer is Director of
the Beazley Institute
for Health Law and Policy, one of the nation’s most
acclaimed health law programs, and also Director of the
Center for Catholic Health Care and Sponsorship, a
center which he founded in 1994.
He is a nationally recognized expert on legal and
strategic issues surrounding the organization of health
care institutions, and speaks extensively on these issues.
He has facilitated the sale, merger and acquisition of numerous
health care
facilities and systems, and has served a leadership role in
creating some of the
largest Catholic health care systems in the United States.
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Himmelstein is Associate Professor
of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, and practices primary care
internal medicine and serves as the Chief of the Division
of Social and Community Medicine at Cambridge
Hospital, Cambridge, MA. He was a founder of
Physicians for a National Health Program, and serves
as the Co-Director of the Center for National Health
Program Studies at The Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical
School. He
has published, along with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, more than 70
scientific
papers, three books, and many popular articles.
Luncheon Speakers
Michael Murphy, Government Affairs Director, Unicare
Niva Lubin-Johnson, M.D, Chicago, IL
Our luncheon speakers will discuss
their recently completed service as members
of the Illinois Adequate Health Care Task Force. The Task Force,
which issued
its final report on January 26, 2007, was charged by Illinois
Governor Rod
Blagojevich to develop a comprehensive health care access plan
under the Health
Care Justice Act.