The Center was founded in 2002 under the direction of Former Professor Jennifer Rosato, Professor Nan Hunter and Executive Director Karen Porter.

Nan D. Hunter
Professor of Law and Director of the Center

Professor Hunter is a widely recognized authority on health law issues such as reproductive rights, AIDS, and consumer protection. She served as Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 1996. As a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, she helped draft a proposed federal patient bill of rights in managed care. The American Foundation for AIDS Research presented her with an Award of Courage in 2000, and she is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Karen Porter
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Executive Director of the Center

Professor Porter has taught courses at Washington University Law School on law and medicine, and AIDS and the law. Prior to teaching, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. Her background also includes work as a senior policy analyst and staff counsel to the National Commission on AIDS, and she has authored numerous publications related to AIDS policy.

Margaret A. Berger
Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law

Professor Berger is a leading authority and frequent lecturer nationwide on scientific evidentiary issues. She is widely recognized for the development of new approaches to judicial treatment of scientific evidence and educating the legal and science communities about ways to implement these approaches.

Dana Brakman Reiser
Associate Professor of Law

Professor Brakman Reiser is an expert in nonprofit organizations. She was a Legal Fellow in the Office of the General Counsel of Partners HealthCare System before joining the faculty.

Michael Cahill
Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Cahill has written on legal models for resolving potential conflicts of interest arising in managed care and for addressing such conflicts between physicians and attorneys.

Edward K. Cheng
Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Cheng focuses his scholarship on the legal dimensions of scientific and technological developments. He has published a noted study in the Virginia Law Review on whether scientific admissibility standards make a difference in practice.

Neil B. Cohen
Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law

Professor Cohen has co-authored important works on new possibilities for the law of informed consent, and informed decision making and the law of torts, which have been cited by appellate courts.

Marsha Garrison
Professor of Law

Professor Garrison has co-authored a leading bioethics casebook: Bioethics and the Law: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (West 2003). She has written and lectured widely in the area of reproductive technology.

Edward J. Janger
Professor of Law

Professor Janger specializes in bankruptcy and has lectured on health care bankruptcies in a variety of settings. He has taught a seminar on this issue at the United States Bankruptcy Court Conference of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Robert S. Karmel
Centennial Professor of Law

Professor Karmel is a former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and served on the board of directors of a medical device manufacturer for 20 years.

Jerome M. Leitner
Professor of Law

Professor Leitner, whose expertise is torts and malpractice, served on the institutional review board of New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College for 15 years and currently serves on the Ethics Committee of New York Hospital Center of Queens.

Lawrence M. Solan
Don Forchelli Professor of Law

Professor Solan serves on the board of directors of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. He is an expert on law and linguistics, and insurance law.