20 results match your criteria: "McGeorge School of Law[Affiliation]"
Designing Policy Solutions to Build a Healthier Rural America.
J Law Med Ethics
September 2020
Sameer Vohra, M.D., J.D., M.A., F.A.A.P., is the Founding Chair of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's (SIU SOM) Department of Population Science and Policy. A general pediatrician, Dr. Vohra is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Humanities, and Law. Dr. Vohra completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), as well as earning a Master of Arts in public policy at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), a medical doctorate at SIU SOM (Springfield, IL), a juris doctorate, graduating first in his class, at SIU School of Law (Carbondale, IL), and a Bachelor of Arts with honors at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). Carolyn Pointer, J.D., is an Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, and the Policy Director in the Department of Population Science and Policy at the SIU School of Medicine (Springfield, IL). Her background in Medical-Legal Partnerships focuses her work on the social determinants of health. Professor Pointer earned her J.D. from Boston University School of Law (Boston, MA), and a Bachelor of Science with honors at the Boston University School of Education (Boston, MA). Amanda Fogleman, M.Eng., Senior Research Project Coordinator, is one of the founding members of Southern Illinois University (SIU) Medicine's Department of Population Science and Policy (Springfield, IL). Ms. Fogleman graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwards-ville (Edwardsville, IL) with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and the University of Illinois Chicago with a Master of Engineering in Bioinformatics (Chicago, IL). T.J. Albers, M.A., is a Health Policy Coordinator at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's Department of Population Science and Policy. He received his B.A. from Illinois College (Jacksonville, IL) and M.A. from University of Illinois - Springfield (Springfield, IL). His research focuses on rural health care delivery, policy development, and addressing rural health disparities. Anish Patel is a J.D candidate at the University of Georgia School of Law (Athens, Georgia). He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia). He previously worked as a Research Chemist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia). Elizabeth Weeks, J.D., is Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Charles H. Kirbo Chair in Law at the University of Georgia School of Law (Athens, Georgia). She received her B.A. from Columbia University (New York, New York) and JD from the University of Georgia School of Law (Athens, Georgia). She previously served on the faculty of the University of Kansas School of Law (Lawrence, Kansas), where she was director of the medical-legal partnership clinic and has visited at University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of Law (Sacramento, California). Her research and teaching focus is in health care financing and regulation and public health law.
Disparities exist in the health, livelihood, and opportunities for the 46-60 million people living in America's rural communities. Rural communities across the United States need a new energy and focus concentrated around health and health care that allows for the designing capturing, and spreading of existing and new innovations. This paper aims to provide a framework for policy solutions to build a healthier rural America describing both the current state of rural health policy and the policies and practices in states that could be used as a national model for positive change.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmergency Declarations for Public Health Issues: Expanding Our Definition of Emergency.
J Law Med Ethics
June 2019
Gregory Sunshine, J.D., serves as a public health analyst with the Public Health Law Program in the Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Gregory oversees research on topics such as disaster and public health emergency declarations, state Ebola monitoring and movement policies, isolation and quarantine, and medical countermeasures, and he has published on topics such as gubernatorial emergency authorities, Ebola and the law, and tribal emergency declarations. Gregory earned his J.D. with a certificate in health law from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, and his bachelor of arts in political science from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Nancy Barrera, J.D., M.P.H., is a senior attorney with the California Department of Public Health, Office of Legal Services. Nancy has extensive experience in public health and has advised various public health programs, including tobacco control, chronic diseases, vital records, injury control, family health programs, health care quality, health equity, and civil rights. Currently, she advises the communicable diseases and emergency preparedness programs on important public health legal issues. Nancy earned her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, and her M.P.H. from San Jose State University, California. Aubrey Joy Corcoran, J.D., M.P.H., is the health unit chief in the Education and Health Section of Arizona's Office of the Attorney General, where she practices public health law. Aubrey Joy's practice includes litigation at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels in Arizona and federal courts. She earned her J.D. with a certificate in health law from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona and her M.P.H. from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Matthew Penn, J.D., M.L.I.S., is the director of the Public Health Law Program within CDC's Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support. In this role he provides critical legal expertise and leadership to advance public health practice through law. Matthew developed expertise in legal preparedness issues as lead counsel for South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's Office of Public Health Preparedness, the South Carolina Advisory Committee for the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals, and the South Carolina Pandemic Influenza Ethics Task Force. Mr. Penn earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law and his M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Emergency declarations are a vital legal authority that can activate funds, personnel, and material and change the legal landscape to aid in the response to a public health threat. Traditionally, declarations have been used against immediate and unforeseen threats such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and pandemic influenza. Recently, however, states have used emergency declarations to address public health issues that have existed in communities for months and years and have risk factors such as poverty and substance misuse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShort- and Long-Term Effects of a Tobacco-Free Executive Order on Employee Tobacco Use.
Policy Polit Nurs Pract
May 2019
3 McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Smoke-free workplace policies encourage cessation, reduce tobacco consumption, and shift the pro-tobacco norm. However, no research exists evaluating the impact of mandated tobacco-free policies on government property. The purpose of our study was to examine short- and long-term effects of a tobacco-free policy (executive order 2014-747) implemented in November 2014, prohibiting tobacco use on state executive property.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Plastic Surgeon as Employee: A Pilot Survey of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Ann Plast Surg
May 2017
From the *Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA; †Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; ‡McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific; and §Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA.
Introduction: Plastic surgeons endure years of training yet remain poorly equipped to negotiate first employment contracts. Our aims were to evaluate typical plastic surgeon employment contracts and assess contract comprehensiveness. We sought elements that should be included to better preserve varied interests.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiotechnology and the creation of ethics.
McGeorge Law Rev
May 2006
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
Life-term inmates' right to procreate via artificial insemination: why so much fuss over the contents of a plastic cup?
McGeorge Law Rev
March 2006
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 to combat the proliferation of biological weapons.
Biosecur Bioterror
September 2005
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA 98517, USA.
California's Compassionate Use Act and the federal government's medical marijuana policy: can California physicians recommend marijuana to their patients without subjecting themselves to sanctions?
McGeorge Law Rev
March 2005
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
Biotechnology and the creation of ethics.
McGeorge Law Rev
March 2005
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
Owning the secret of life: biotechnology and property rights revisited.
McGeorge Law Rev
March 2005
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
Seeking an answer: questioning the validity of forcible medication to ensure mental competency of those condemned to die.
McGeorge Law Rev
March 2005
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
Government controls of information and scientific inquiry.
Biosecur Bioterror
April 2004
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California, USA.
Keep the lifeboat afloat.
Child Abuse Negl
June 2002
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, 3200 Fifth Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Societal self-defense: new laws to protect children from sexual abuse.
Child Abuse Negl
April 1996
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Playing God or playing scientist: a constitutional analysis of state laws banning embryological procedures.
Pac Law J
January 2003
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, USA.
The tendency of the legal system to distort scientific and clinical innovations: facilitated communication as a case study.
Child Abuse Negl
June 1994
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA 95817.
Adjudication of child sexual abuse cases.
Future Child
January 1995
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.
This article discusses issues in the adjudication of child sexual abuse allegations. Such allegations may be tried in criminal court and/or civil court (in child abuse or divorce proceedings), and these forums are discussed. Often central to any of these proceedings is the necessity for a child to testify.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA call for forensically relevant research.
Child Abuse Negl
December 1993
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA 95817.
Expert testimony regarding child sexual abuse.
Child Abuse Negl
March 1993
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA 95817.
Expert testimony plays an important role in child sexual abuse litigation in criminal, juvenile, and family courts. This article discusses legal issues relating to expert testimony, including: (a) when expert testimony is permitted, (b) qualifications of expert witnesses on child sexual abuse, (c) permissible bases supporting expert testimony, (d) expert testimony on ultimate factual and legal issues, (e) the reasonable certainty standard of expert testimony, (f) the inappropriateness of equating clinical decision making with the legal degrees of proof, and (g) application of the doctrine of res judicata in litigation regarding child sexual abuse in family court. The article also provides a summary of contemporary case law regarding expert testimony offered in child sexual abuse litigation.
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