Brian Kamoie, JD, MPH

Brian Kamoie is an Associate Professional Lecturer.

• Phone: (202) 530-2308
• Fax: (202) 530-2361
• Email: kamoie@gwu.edu

Professor Kamoie is a long-term member of The George Washington University family, earning both his law and his Master of Public Health degree here, and joining the SPHHS faculty in 2001. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, he is program director of the School's MPH Program in Health Policy. In his earlier work life, Professor Kamoie practiced health care law at a private firm, where he represented health care providers in regulatory and litigation matters, and analyzed health care markets and delivery systems as a management consultant.

An expert in emergency preparedness, Professor Kamoie has a special interest in the links between public health and homeland security. He currently serves as Special Assistant in the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he helps to develop national public health and medical preparedness policy. As a member of HHS's incident management team, Professor Kamoie has been involved in planning and executing responses to natural disasters and other public health emergencies; special security events, such as the presidential inauguration; and major government exercises, including TOPOFF 3, a simulation of how the nation would deal with an attack using weapons of mass destruction. His responsibilities regularly take him from county health departments around the country to the White House.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Public Policy and Political Science), Dickinson College, 1993
Juris Doctor, The George Washington University School of Law, 1996
Master of Public Health (Administrative Medicine-Management), The George Washington University, 1997

Teaching

PubH 209-Homeland Security and Public Health Policy, Department of Health Policy
PubH 284-Public Health and Law, Department of Health Policy
PubH 283-Health Services and the Law, Department of Health Policy

Research

Professor Kamoie's primary areas of research interest include legal and policy issues in emergency preparedness, public health, Medicare and Medicaid, managed care, privacy and health care fraud and abuse.

Community Service

Among his community service activities, Professor Kamoie has served on the Arlington County Community Services Board, which offers a community voice on the delivery of mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services, and on The George Washington University Law Alumni Board. He is currently President of the Dickinson College Alumni Council. In 2000, Professor Kamoie completed the Marine Corps Marathon, raising more than $3,000 for the Whitman-Walker Clinic, a health clinic in Washington, DC committed to providing health care and community services for individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Departments

• Health Policy
• Health Services Management and Leadership

Institutes & Centers

• Center for Health Services Research and Policy

Publications

• The national response plan: a new framework for homeland security, public health, and bioterrorism response.
  Kamoie B. The national response plan: a new framework for homeland security, public health, and bioterrorism response. J Health Law. In press 2005.
• Signals from the tenth justice: the political role of the solicitor general in Supreme Court decision-making.
  Bailey M, Kamoie B, Maltzman F. Signals from the tenth justice: the political role of the solicitor general in Supreme Court decision-making. Am J Pol Sci 2005;49(1):72-85.
• Finding a way through the hospital door: the role of EMTALA in public health emergencies.
  Rosenbaum S, Kamoie B. Finding a way through the hospital door: the role of EMTALA in public health emergencies. J Law Med Ethics 2003;31(4):590-601.
• EMTALA: dedicating an emergency department near you.
  Kamoie B. EMTALA: dedicating an emergency department near you. J Health Law 2004;37(1):41-60.
• EMTALA: reaching beyond the emergency room to expand hospital liability.
  Kamoie BE. EMTALA: reaching beyond the emergency room to expand hospital liability. J Health Law 2000;33(1):25-55.
• Implementation and management of public health programs in a managed care legal framework.
  Kamoie B, Rosenbaum S, Stange P. Implementation and management of public health programs in a managed care legal framework. In: Goodman R. et al. Law in public health practice. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press; 2002.
• Managed care and public health: conflict and collaboration.
  Rosenbaum S, Kamoie B. Managed care and public health: conflict and collaboration. J Law Med Ethics 2002;30(2):191-200.