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Faigman, David L.

Director
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

David L. Faigman is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy.  He also holds an appointment as Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco  He received both his M.A. (Psychology) and J.D. from the University of Virginia.  Professor Faigman clerked for the Honorable Thomas Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles and essays.  He is also the author of three books, Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts (Oxford, 2008), Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court’s 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law (Henry Holt & Co. 2004) and Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law (W.H. Freeman,1999).  In addition, Professor Faigman is a co-author of a five-volume treatise, Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with Blumenthal, Cheng, Mnookin, Murphy & Sanders). The treatise has been cited widely by courts, including several times by the U.S. Supreme Court.  Professor Faigman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel that investigated the scientific validity of polygraphs and he is a member of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Network. 

200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone: 415-565-4739
Email: faigmand@uchastings.edu

King, Jaime S.

Associate Director
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium
Associate Professor of Law
UC Hastings College of Law

Jaime King joined the Hastings faculty in 2008, following completion of a Ph.D. in Health Policy at Harvard University and serving as a fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School. Prior to commencing her Ph.D., she earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law and served as an articles editor on the Emory Law Journal. Following law school, Professor King was an associate at Morris, Manning and Martin, LLP in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, where she worked on intellectual property, environmental and litigation matters for the firm. Professor King has a wide range of research interests that all fall at the intersection of law, medicine, ethics and policy, including the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies, genetic testing, and communication between physicians and patients.

200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone: 415-565-4739
kingja@uchastings.edu

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Dohan, Dan

Associate Director
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium
Associate Director for Training and Development
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Daniel Dohan, PhD is Associate Professor in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies with a faculty appointment in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. He is also the Associate Director for Training at IHPS as well as the Director for UCSF Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society. Dan's work examines disparities, organizations, and the culture of biomedicine -- mostly via ethnographic studies of how we deliver care to disadvantaged populations. He has examined how diverse patients are recruited to participate in cancer clinical trials, how social stigma shapes the provision of oncology and emergency care, and the effects of welfare reform on poor people with substance abuse problems. In addition to his research, Dan is engaged in curricular innovations with the Pathway in Health & Society that seek to bolster the culture of inquiry and leadership in health sciences education.

Dan's Ph.D. is in sociology from UC Berkeley. He has published in a variety of journals including Social Science and Medicine, Cancer, Health Services Research, and Ethnography. A book based on his dissertation, The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio, was published by the University of California Press in 2003.

University of California, San Francisco
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94118

Phone: 415-476-0751
daniel.dohan@ucsf.edu

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Dunn, Jennifer Templeton

Executive Director
UCSF / UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

Jennifer Templeton Dunn is the Executive Director of the UCSF/Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy. Prior to joining UC Hastings, she served as the Law & Policy Advisor at UCSF's Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health where she worked to ensure that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. Licensed in California and New York, she began her legal career at a plaintiffs' class action law firm, where she litigated health care and civil rights cases in state and federal courts throughout the country.

Throughout her career, Jennifer has remained an unwavering champion of women's rights and fought for accessible, affordable health care and the elimination of discrimination. She taught Women’s Health and the Law as a Lecturer at Berkeley Law and more recently at UC Hastings. Her research interests include, among others, the history and current implications of "physician-only" abortion laws; the use (and misuse) of science in determining state and national health policy; and the implications of forced obstetrical interventions on maternal morbidity and personal autonomy.  Her book, Abortion in California: A Medical-Legal Handbook, is co-authored with ObGyn faculty at UCSF and will be coming out this Spring.

200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone: 415-581-8983
dunnj@uchastings.edu

 

Hooper, Sarah

Assistant Director of Programs
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

Adjunct Professor,
UC Hastings College of Law

Sarah Hooper is the Assistant Director of Programs of the UCSF / UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy.

Ms. Hooper earned her Juris Doctor at UC Hastings College of Law, where she nurtured her love of public interest law and policy. While at Hastings, she had the good fortune to work in a variety of public interest settings, including environmental and employment law, and was a judicial extern for Judge Anne-Christine Massullo at the San Francisco Superior Court. In addition, Ms. Hooper was a founding member of Hastings Hurricane Relief. 

After being admitted to the California bar, Ms. Hooper worked as a Graduate Research Fellow with the Consortium and assisted in the early stages of its development. Now, as the Assistant Director of Programs, she is involved in all facets of the Consortium's development, including launching graduate degree programs, public education and outreach, and research programs.  In particular, Ms. Hooper is developing the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors, which includes educational, direct services, and policy components.

She recently completed a research collaboration with faculty at UCSF examining the statutory barriers posed to vulnerable populations in end of life decision making.  The collaboration resulted in a publication in the Annals of Internal Medicine entitled "Lost in Translation: The Unintended Consequences of Advance Directive Law on Clinical Care."

Her current research effort, the San Francisco Elder Financial Abuse Collaboration, or EFAC, is focused on strengthening the civil legal response to elder financial abuse.  This project is both an academic research and collaborative engagement effort, and will culminate in a "blueprint" for recommended responses to San Francisco's growing epidemic of elder financial abuse.

Ms. Hooper also taught the Law & Health Sciences Concentration Seminar in fall of 2011 and will be again teaching this fall in the Master of Studies in Law Seminar course.

Lewis, Shayna

Shayna Lewis is a Program Manager & Senior Research Fellow with the Consortium, working with the Group to Individual (G2I) Research Project. Shayna has long been interested in the intersection between the law and science, in particular as an advocate for women’s rights and social justice.  She previously worked with the Consortium as a Fellow in early 2010 after graduating from law school and is excited to be back with the group.  Prior to returning to the Consortium, she worked as a Research Analyst with UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program, focusing on women’s empowerment, conscience in reproductive health care and issues with minors’ participation in reproductive health research.  Ms. Lewis received her BA from the University of Arizona in Sociology and Political Science and focused on health policy and employment law while in Washington, DC, earning her JD from Catholic University of America. 

Frey, Andrea

Projects Assistant
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

Andrea is a San Diego native who received her BA in 2009 from Tufts University, Boston in International Relations, Economics and Spanish. After graduation, she spent a year in Madrid, Spain working with the non-profit Club de Madrid on "Women's Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa Project," focusing on increasing effective participation of women in peace and security processes, and enhancing respect of human rights in conflict and post conflict situations.

She is very excited to be working with the Consortium and will be a 1L this fall with a focus in Women's Health and Public Interest Law.

Bischoff, Roxanne

Roxy was born and raised in New Hampshire before moving to the Boston area where she studied Philosophy and Sociology at Brandeis University. Prior to receiving her BA in 2011, she also spent a year studying abroad in Brisbane, Australia where she further developed her interest in environmental justice, conflict resolution, and indigenous rights. In September of 2011, she came to the Bay Area to begin work in development at Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law firm. Roxy is fascinated by many of the subjects the Consortium covers and is very excited to be working with such a friendly and knowledgeable group of people.

Mascot, Abby

Abby will be entering Hastings this year and greatly looks forward to her Animal Law class. She hopes to spend her legal career assisting disadvantaged dogs. And some cats, too. 

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