The Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program is Sara Rosenbaum, JD, and the Managing Director is Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM. Through the Hirsh Program, law and other students have the opportunity to study not only with the large number of full-time law and policy faculty who teach in the program and the Department of Health Policy (DHP), but also with other School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) faculty who are nationally recognized as leading policy analysts and researchers in their respective fields.

Hirsh Program, DHP, and SPHHS law and policy full-time faculty have distinguished careers in all phases of health law and policy, including public and private health insurance; national health reform; health disparities and minority health; health care access and the safety net; HIV/AIDS; mental illness and addiction; health quality; public health; and more. In addition, the law and policy faculty include numerous adjuncts drawn from Washington, D.C.’s uniquely talented pool of legal experts, policy analysts, and researchers. Indeed, the adjunct faculty offer Hirsh Program students not only a rich teaching experience, but also extraordinary career development opportunities.

Advisory Committee

The Hirsh Program and the Department of Health Policy maintain a Law and Policy Advisory Committee, comprised of distinguished community leaders, including Hirsh Program alumni, whose own professional careers reflect the range of career opportunities available to law and policy degree candidates, as well as the law/policy nexus which lies at the heart of the Hirsh Program. Members of the Advisory Committee are available to provide guidance to law and policy degree candidates, and many teach or lecture in the program and the Department.

The following individuals are members of the Law and Policy Advisory Committee:

Tom Barker, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Erica Berry, Program Analyst, Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Randy Bovbjerg, Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute.

Bruce Fried (Chair), Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath, and Rosenthal LLP; Director of the firm’s Health Care Group.

Larry Gage, Partner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy LLP; Director of the firm’s Washington Health Practice group; President, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.

Katherine Hayes, Health and Social Policy Counsel, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh.

Eric Juzenas, Chief of Staff, Office of Commissioner Michael Dunn, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Jacqueline Leifer, Partner, Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell LLP.

Jennifer Leonard, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health Policy, The George Washington University.

Marc Machiz, Partner, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll PLLC.

Tom Perez, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Law; Member, Montgomery County Council; former Director, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Nancy Taylor, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP; Co-Chair of the firm’s Health Business Group.

Alice Weiss, Counsel, U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

Bruce Wolff, Healthcare Industry Counsel, Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips.

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