Past Events
Speaker: Dayna Matthew, Professor of Law and Director, Health Law & Policy Program, University of Colorado School of Law
Time: Noon-2:00pm
Location: Wynne Courtroom and atrium, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street, Indianapolis, IN
McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award Recipient: Dayna Matthew, Professor of Law and Director, Health Law & Policy Program, University of Colorado School of Law
Award Lecture: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Panel: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Panelists:
Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health; Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia, Indiana University School of Medicine; Anesthesiologist, Eskenazi Health
Mary G. Austrom, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry and Wesley P. Martin Professor Alzheimer Disease Education, Indiana University School of Medicine; Associate Dean of Diversity Affairs, Indiana University School of Medicine
Heather McCabe, J.D., M.S.W., Assistant Professor of Social Work, Indiana University School of Social Work; Adjunct Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
This is a free event, but registration is required.
Bio:
Professor Matthew joined the University of Colorado faculty in 2003 as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2004. she teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and a variety of health law classes. Professor Matthew regularly lectures to medical and public health students, and is a member of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Medical Campus. In 2004, she became the Law School's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and she served as the Law School's Vice Dean from 2010-2011. Professor Matthew's forthcoming book "Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in Health Care" will be published by NYU Press later this year.
Professor Matthew brings an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health law. She holds a joint appointment at the Colorado School of Public Health and offers classes in which law and public health students study, provide direct client representation, and advocate for changes in public health law and policy together. Professor Matthew is co-founder of the Colorado Health Equity Project, a medical legal partnership whose mission is to remove barriers to good health for low income clients by providing legal representation, research, and policy advocacy.
Professor Matthew has practiced as a civil litigator both in Kentucky, at the law firm of Greenebaum, Doll and McDonald, and in Virginia, at McGuire Woods where her work primarily focused on the defense of medical care providers and corporate manufacturers in state courts, Federal Courts, and before administrative and licensing tribunals.
Professor Matthew graduated with an A.B. in Economics from Harvard-Radcliffe and, after a brief stint as a commercial real estate banker, obtained a J.D. from the University of Virginia. While studying at Virginia, Professor Matthew served as an editor of the Virginia Law Review; won the Law School's two year Lile Moot Court Competition; and taught as a Hardy Dillard Writing Fellow. Following graduation, Professor Matthew enjoyed the privilege of clerking for The Honorable John Charles Thomas, the first African-American justice to sit on the Virginia Supreme Court.
Professor Matthew has written articles on health and antitrust law topics which have appeared in the Virginia Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives, Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Houston Law Review and the Wake Forest Law Review the Indiana Law Journal, the Kentucky Law Journal and the St. Louis University Law Journal, as well as the American Journal of Law and Medicine. Professor Matthew is currently serving as the Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Civil Rights for the Environmental Protection Agency. She has also been named a 2015-2016 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow and will be in residence in Washington, D.C. until December 2016. Additionally, she is the recipient of several awards, including CU Law's Clifford Calhoun Faculty Award for Public Service (May 2015), the Margaret Willard Award (2015, presented by the University Women's Club of Boulder), and was recently named as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women (2016) by the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce.
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.
