Past Events
Speaker: Prof. Susan M. Wolf, McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law; and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Law School
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Wynne Courtroom and Atrium, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street, Indianapolis, IN
Light Lunch: 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Award Lecture: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Panel Discussion: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Panelists:
- Efthimios Paradisis, M.BE., J.D., Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- Dr. Kimberly Quaid, Ph.D., Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine and Faculty Investigator, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Registration is closed but walk-in registration is available.
Bio:
Professor Susan M. Wolf is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy and the Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is the Founding Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and Founding Director of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Science & Technology. She is also a professor of medicine and a faculty member in the Center for Bioethics.
Professor Wolf is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an elected fellow of The Hastings Center as well as a past-member of the Fellows' Council. She has received numerous grants to support her research, including from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and The Greenwall Foundation. From 2007-2010, Wolf served as a member of the Law & Neuroscience Project funded by the MacArthur Foundation. She has recently served as a senior consultant to The Hastings Center on its project on guidelines for end-of-life care, funded by the Donaghue Foundation and Sussman Trust. She received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to fund research in 2012-14.
Professor Wolf teaches in the areas of health law, law and science, and bioethics. She was co-holder of the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law, an Opperman Research Scholar, a recipient of the John K. & Elsie Lampert Fesler Research Grant, and a recipient of a University of Minnesota Medical School Merit Award.
Professor Wolf received an A.B. degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, with graduate work at Harvard University. She clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then practiced with the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She was also a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and Associate for Law at The Hastings Center. She has taught law and medicine at New York University School of Law as an adjunct associate professor and she served as Fellow at Harvard University in the Program in Ethics and the Professions. She has served on a variety of governmental and institutional panels, including the Institute of Medicine the American Bar Association Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Ethics Committee, the New York City AIDS Review Panel, and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Ethics Committee. In 2011, she was appointed by the Secretary of Health & Human Services to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. She is a past chair of the AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care and a past board member (elected) of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. Professor Wolf has served on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; American Journal of Bioethics; Journal of Urban Health; and Journal of Women's Health and Law; and as Faculty Advisor to the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology.
Parking:
Parking is available for a nominal fee at the campus Gateway Garage, located on the corner of Michigan and California Streets (Address is 525 Blackford Street).
Parking is also available for a nominal fee at the Natatorium Garage two blocks west of the law school.
Special Accommodations:
Individuals with disabilities who need special assistance should call (317) 278-4789 no later than one week prior to the event. Special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs.
