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Friday, October 21, 2022

Hall Center for Law and Health: Indiana Health Law Review Symposium
Mental Health and the Law

CLE: 6.0 including 1.3 Ethics

Time: 8:15 AM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
Location: Wynne Courtroom (Room 100), Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street, Indianapolis, IN

Join the Hall Center for Law and Health and the Indiana Health Law Review as they host their annual symposium on October 21, 2022 at Inlow Hall.

Recording

This program will be offered in person for 6.0 CLE credit hours including 1.3 Ethics (Well-being credit for Panel Four).

CEU Certificates for Indiana Behavioral Health & Human Services Providers available.

Certificates of attendance can be provided for those wishing to apply for CLE credit outside of Indiana.

Congratulations to the 2022 Indiana Health Law Review Symposium Student Poster Competition Winners!

Poster Winners

Best Completed Note:
Kasey Barnes, " Indiana’s Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality: Necessary, but Insufficient"

Best Note in Progress (Tied):
Cedric Burnett, " Communal Revival: Why Indiana Should Encourage Communal Living Spaces in Apartment Complexes"
Kaelyn Bowman, " Why Indiana Should Mandate the Implementation of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) to Minors with Disruptive Behavior Disorders within Juvenile Detention Centers"

Agenda

8:15 - 8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks: Vice Dean Max Huffman, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Professor Nicolas Terry, LL.M, Professor of Law and Executive Director, Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Victoria Konstantinidis, J.D. Candidate and Executive Symposium Editor, Indiana Health Law Review, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
8:30 am - 9:30 am	Opening Keynote Address (1.0 Hour CLE) Mental Health Parity: Exploring the Promising Potential of This Seemingly Intuitive but Exasperating to Implement Law Professor Tara Ragone, J.D., Assistant Professor Seton Hall Law Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Panel One (1.0 Hour CLE) Mental Health Accommodations and Discrimination Dean Amy T. Campbell, J.D., MBE, Inaugural Associate Dean for Law & Health Sciences and Professor of Law at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law Adriana Figueroa, J.D., Senior Staff Attorney, Indiana University Health Michael Gray, J.D., Director of Advocacy, Treatment Advocacy Center
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Panel Two(1.0 Hour CLE) Mental Health Treatment Access Katherine G. Gregory, J.D., Chief Counsel for the Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Office of General Counsel, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Mark Heyrman, J.D., General Counsel, Mental Health America Jami Sayeed, J.D., Director of Administration, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.	Lunch and Student Poster Competition
12:30 - 1:15 p.m.	Afternoon Keynote (.7 Hour CLE -speaker will be joining us virtually) Force and Treatment: Lessons for the Law from Lived Experience Professor Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Law, Psychology and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, USC Gould School of Law
1:15 - 2:15 p.m.	Panel Three(1.0 Hour CLE) Mental Health Agency and Decision Making Hon. Lakshmi (Lucky) Reddy, J.D., Judge, Vigo Superior Court 2 Justin Schrock, J.D., Staff Attorney, Indiana Disability Rights Rafik Nader Wahbi, MPH, and PhD Student at University of California, Los Angeles
2:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Panel Four (1.3 Hours Ethics CLE) Lawyer Wellbeing Professor Shailini J. George, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School Garland Gerber, MA, MFT, CADC-II, Private Practice Psychotherapist, PhD Candidate at SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program, Teaching Associate at SDSU School of Social Work Terry L. Harrell, JD, LCSW, LCAC, MAC Executive Director of the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program Patricia Kinney, Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Tara Ragone

Assistant Professor Seton Hall Law Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law

Presentation:
Mental Health Parity: Exploring the Promising Potential of This Seemingly Intuitive but Exasperating to Implement Law

Tara Adams Ragone is an Assistant Professor in Seton Hall Law’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law, where her research and writing focus on health care access, integration of behavioral and physical health care, sustainability of community health workers as key members of care teams, mental health parity, treatment of substance use disorder, health care privacy law, and issues related to the representation of health care professionals. She has served in a number of advisory capacities, including the Steering Committee of the New Jersey Department of Health Colette Lamothe-Galette Community Health Worker Institute; the New Jersey iPHD Advisory Committee; and the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES). Professor Ragone teaches courses on mental health parity, mental health law, the law of alternative medicine, the law of patient care, and skills for health law practice; is the Faculty Supervisor of the Health Law Semester in Washington, D.C. Program; supervises student Notes; and advises students competing in national health law competitions. She regularly has contributed to health law blogs and is a peer reviewer for a number of journals.

Prior to Seton Hall Law, Professor Ragone served as a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. She primarily prosecuted licensing actions before the State Board of Medical Examiners and the Office of Administrative Law and represented the State in federal civil rights actions brought by licensees. Ms. Ragone also twice appeared before the Supreme Court of New Jersey in a case of first impression involving a commercial speech challenge to the Court’s Rule of Professional Conduct governing attorney firm names.

Professor Ragone received her B.A. in Government and Philosophy, summa cum laude, from the College of William and Mary, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After college, she worked on a variety of domestic policy issues, including campaign finance reform, as a research assistant and verifier at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Professor Ragone graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Service Scholar, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as Senior Articles Editor for the New York University Annual Survey of American Law.

Before joining the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, Professor Ragone served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Professor Elyn Sak

Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Law, Psychology and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, USC Gould School of Law

Elyn R. Saks is Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Founder and Faculty Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; and Faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Professor Saks received her J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Psychoanalytic Science from the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D., Hon.) from Pepperdine University and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D., Hon.) from William James College.

Saks writes extensively in the area of law and mental health, having published five books and more than fifty articles and book chapters. Her memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, describes her struggles with schizophrenia and her managing to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. She has won numerous honors, including a 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called “Genius Grant”).

Panelists:

	Dean Amy T. Campbell JD, MBE, Inaugural Associate Dean for Law & Health Sciences and Professor of Law at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law Presentation: From Accommodation to Association: Is It Time for <> Health in All Policies and <> Health Equity? Amy T. Campbell, JD, MBE, is the inaugural Associate Dean for Law & Health Sciences and Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (UIC Law). She joined UIC Law from the University of Memphis School of Law, where she created and directed the Institute for Health Law & Policy. She received tenure from the SUNY Upstate Medical University, where she directed ethical and legal training of health professional and basic science students. At UIC Law, Dean Campbell leads development of a new health law program, the Health Equity, Law & Policy Program (HELPP), which officially launched in fall 2021. The vision of HELPP is to “create healthier communities and populations by transforming structures grounded in principles of health equity, justice, and inclusion.” It will be intentionally inclusive in its work, to develop health equity-promoting structures through interdisciplinary and community collaboration. Dean Campbell’s law school-based teaching experience includes Health Law Survey, Health Law: Structure & Financing, Bioethics & the Law, Mental Health Law, and Public Health Law, as well as an interdisciplinary policy skills course she developed—the Health Policy Practicum. She will also begin teaching Torts in 2023. Her current scholarly interests focus on how to advance health equity through a multisector structural reform strategy directed at racial and economic inequities; and how to develop health policy from a therapeutic, evidence-informed, and ethical perspective. Dean Campbell served on the Founding Board of the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence (“ISTJ”), and will assume leadership of ISTJ in the summer of 2023. She was also chosen as one of sixteen fellows in the University of Illinois System’s Presidential Executive Leadership Program for the 2020-21 academic year. She is past member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Academy of Law & Mental Health, where she co-organized international panels of therapeutic jurisprudence scholars for the leading law and mental health biennial conference. Dean Campbell received her law degree from Yale Law School, her Master's in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame.
	Adriana Figueroa J.D., Senior Staff Attorney, Indiana University Health Presentation: Legal Obligations and Best Practices when Managing Workers with Mental Health Conditions Adriana Figueroa is a Senior Staff Attorney in the legal department at Indiana University Health where she counsels Human Resources professionals and other internal clients on various employment issues, including matters concerning accommodations in the workplace, requests for leave of absence, workplace investigations, performance management, and discipline and discharge. To ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, Adriana has helped update and revise system-wide policies and procedures. Adriana also investigates and responds to administrative charges filed against the organization with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Indiana Civil Rights Commission, and United States Department of Labor and manages outside counsel on employment-related litigation. Prior to joining Indiana University Health, Adriana practiced as an Associate Attorney in the Labor and Employment group at Faegre Drinker Biddle Reath LLP where she defended clients against administrative charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state agencies and in litigation in state and federal courts across the country. Prior to joining the law firm, Adriana completed a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Jane Magnus-Stinson of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana where she conducted legal research, prepared draft orders, and assisted in courtroom proceedings.
	Shailini J. George Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School Presentation: Doing Well and Being Well Professor George teaches legal writing, and her scholarship focuses in the areas of lawyer well-being, mindfulness, and the cognitive science of learning. She is the author of the recently released The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well (Carolina Academic Press), as well as the co-author of Mindful Lawyering: The Key to Creative Problem Solving (Carolina Academic Press), and law review articles on distraction and the cognitive science of learning and why law students need mindfulness training. Professor George was recently elected to the Executive Committee for the AALS Balance and Wellbeing in Law Section, and was the winner of the section’s inaugural section award. Professor George also was recently appointed to the Institute for Well-Being in Law’s Research and Scholarship Committee. Professor George is highly involved in the national legal writing community, having served on the Association of Legal Writing Directors Board, the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning, and co-chairs the Diversity and Scholarship Committees of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI).
	Garland Gerber MA, MFT, CADC-II, Private Practice Psychotherapist, PhD Candidate at SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program, Teaching Associate at SDSU School of Social Work Presentation: You Don't have to 'Pay Your Dues' with Mental Health: Changing the Culture of Lawyering Garland Gerber is a Doctoral candidate at UC San Diego School of Medicine/San Diego State School of Social Work specializing in Research on Substance Use. She has a master's degree in Clinical Psychology with a training emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy and specializations in Addictive Disorders and Psychological Trauma. She has completed specialized training in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback and obtained a Certification in Addiction Studies, with a CADC through the state of California. She works within the community providing Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Mental Health awareness education to clinicians, law enforcement, families, and students. Garland's research has focused on SUD and Mental Health related stigma, primarily within the criminal justice system. Currently, she is working on research exploring and assessing legal professional burnout and how it affects occupational wellness, as well as case related practices, with her dissertation advisor Leo Beletsky J.D., MPH. She also has completed work on the San Diego Sheriff's Department Naloxone Training Program rescope project. Garland is in long term recovery and has dedicated her life to studying Addiction and Mental Health, helping others get educated, as well as recover.
	Michael Gray J.D., Director of Advocacy, Treatment Advocacy Center Presentation: Codified Disparity: The Medicaid IMD Exclusion, Discrimination, and Congressional Intent Michael Gray is director of advocacy at the Treatment Advocacy Center. He was previously legislative and policy counsel at the Treatment Advocacy Center, where he has worked to expand assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs, improve statutory criteria for inpatient commitment, increase the use of Medicaid waivers to counteract the discriminatory IMD exclusion and educate the public, providers and legal practitioners on HIPAA as a barrier to mental healthcare. Prior to joining the Treatment Advocacy Center, Gray was the executive director of NAMI Louisville and a contract lobbyist in Frankfort, Kentucky representing multiple mental health entities, including NAMI Kentucky. Gray received his juris doctor, master in urban planning and bachelor’s degrees in history and philosophy from the University of Louisville.
	Katherine G. Gregory J.D., Chief Counsel for the Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Office of General Counsel, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Presentation: Mental Health Treatment Access Katherine G. Gregory earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Northwestern University, and a J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. After serving a year as a Deputy Attorney General and four years in private practice, specializing in family law and probate, she became in-house legal counsel to the Indiana Department of Mental Health and then to its successor agency, the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction. She has a total of 40 years of state mental health legal experience and is Indiana’s representative to the Legal Division of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
	Terry L. Harrell JD, LCSW, LCAC, MAC Executive Director of the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program Presentation: The Well-being Movement: Is Indiana Part of The Movement? After working in law and a variety of mental health settings Terry joined the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP) in 2000 and became the Executive Director in 2002. Terry is a past chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (2014-2017) and a founding member of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well- Being that produced the report, The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Recommendations for Positive Change. She previously chaired the ABA Working Group to Advance Well-Being in the Legal Profession (2017-2019) where the Well-Being Pledge for Legal Employers was created. She is currently on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Well-Being in Law. Terry received the ABA CoLAP Meritorious Service Award in October 2021. Terry is a Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation and active with the Indiana State Bar Association’s Solo Small Firm Section and Wellness Committee. For her own well-being Terry likes to train with her dog, run, walk, and read. Her new favorite activity is the Indiana Supreme Court Employee Book Club. It provides both an opportunity to read books she might not have discovered and a welcome opportunity to connect with co-workers.
	Mark Heyrman J.D., General Counsel, Mental Health America Presentation: No One is In Charge In 2019, Mark J. Heyrman retired after forty-one years as a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. The primary focus of his work at the Law School was to teach law students to be effective advocates through their supervised litigation on behalf of indigent clients with mental illnesses and legislative advocacy on behalf of mental health organizations. In addition to providing legal assistance to thousands of persons with mental illnesses, Mr. Heyrman and his students drafted and helped to enact more than one hundred bills designed to improve mental health services in Illinois. In 1988 he served as Executive Director of the Governor's Commission to Revise the Mental Health Code of Illinois Mr. Heyrman is currently of counsel to the Monahan Law Group. He also serves as volunteer General Counsel to Mental Health America. He continues to work on public policy and legislative advocacy as: Staff to the Public Policy Committee of Mental Health America Board member and chair of the Public Policy Committee of Mental Health America of Illinois Facilitator of the Mental Health Summit, a coalition of mental health service providers and advocates for persons with mental illness Member of the Chicago Bar Association’s Mental Health and Disability Law Committee Member and legislative liaison of the Section on Mental Health Law of the Illinois State Bar Association
	Patricia Kinney Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Presentation: Through the Lens of Well-Being: Factors Impacting Sense of Belonging for our Future Lawyers Patricia Kinney joined the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law administration in 2004 as the Director for Admissions and became Assistant Dean in 2010. She was appointed the inaugural Assistant Dean of Diversity & Inclusion in 2018. She earned her J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. While a student at the law school, she actively participated in many student organizations, including co-founding the Asian Law Student Association (ALSA). She also served as a student representative for the law school at various national Law School Forums, student panels and open houses. Patricia is admitted to practice law in Indiana and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. Prior to joining the law school, she assisted clients with matters in trust and estates, sports licensing, and entertainment.
	Lakshmi (Lucky) Reddy J.D., Judge, Vigo Superior Court 2 Presentation: Mental Health Commitments & Agency Decision Making Lakshmi (Lucky) Reddy, J.D., is the current Judge in Vigo Superior Court 2. She was born in Hyderabad, India and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and graduated cum laude from IU McKinney School of Law in 1997. She was a judicial law clerk on the Indiana Supreme Court for The Honorable Frank Sullivan, Jr., retired and now a professor at the IU McKinney School of Law. Lakshmi was in private practice for 16 years practicing in a variety of areas including civil litigation, insurance defense, medical malpractice defense, health care, appellate law, business and corporate law, real estate transactions, family law, estate planning and probate. She became Judge of Vigo Superior Court 2 in January of 2015 and was re-elected in 2020. Judge Reddy’s docket consists primarily of family law, civil matters, probate/guardianships, civil mental health, and other miscellaneous matters. She has served in the past on the Race and Gender Commission and the Co-Chair of the Language Access Task Force, both by appointment of the Indiana Supreme Court. In 2019, she was appointed to the Family Law Task Force by the Indiana Supreme Court and in 2020, the Indiana Supreme Court approved Judge Reddy to start a Commercial Court in Vigo County. Judge Reddy also serves on the Rural Justice Collaborative Advisory Council, an initiative of the National Center for State Courts. She and her husband, Dr. Venkat Reddy, have been married for 29 years and they have 3 boys who are 20, 16 and 13.
	Jami Sayeed J.D., Director of Administration, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning Presentation: Agency Appeals Related to Mental Health Treatment and Barriers to Due Process Jami Sayeed is the Director of Administration with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning. Until recently, she served as Deputy General Counsel and Director of Operations with the Indiana Office of Administrative Law Proceedings. Previously, Jami was an Administrative Law Judge with the Family and Social Services Administration for six years. She specializes in administrative law and Medicaid law and creates and provides trainings and guidance for Administrative Law Judges. Jami earned her J.D. and Health Law Graduate Certificate from IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
	Justin Schrock J.D., Staff Attorney, Indiana Disability Rights Presentation: Ensuring Care and Avoiding Guardianship When Capacity Is in Question Justin Schrock 14', is a cum Laude graduate of the IU - McKinney School of Law. He has worked in the disability advocacy and support fields in a variety of capacities since 2007 and as a staff attorney with Indiana Disability Rights (IDR) since 2015. Previously, Justin led IDR’s Community Integration Team, where he assisted clients with legal matters covering the span of healthcare access, Medicaid 1915(c) home & community-based service waivers, fair housing, transportation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and guardianships. In Spring 2020, Justin established IDR’s Self Determination Team, which focuses on helping adults with disabilities avoid and escape from unnecessary guardianships, as well as expanding access to less-restrictive alternatives to guardianship. Justin frequently provides technical assistance on matters related to guardianship and its alternatives to attorneys, state agencies, service providers, educators, and community stakeholders. In 2018-19, Justin and IDR Executive Director and fellow McKinney alum, Melissa Keyes 11’, were steering committee members on the Indiana Working Interdisciplinary Networks of Guardianship Stakeholders (WINGS) Supported Decision-Making (SDM) Pilot Project. The WINGS SDM Pilot Project was quickly followed by the 2019 passage of Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 380; also known as the “the SDM Bill.” This established a new chapter under Indiana’s code formally recognizing SDM as an available less restrictive alternative to adult guardianship and instituted reporting requirements for putative and current guardians regarding efforts to consider and implement less restrictive alternatives. Two of Justin’s clients have seen their cases receive national and international attention. In 2018, Jamie Beck became the first person in the State of Indiana to have their guardianship terminated in favor of SDM. In September 2021, Nick Clouse, whose guardianship was terminated only one month prior, testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution alongside subject- matter experts in the hearing titled: Toxic Conservatorships – The Need for Reform. In June 2022, IDR received the National Disability Rights Network Advocacy Award in recognition of the work of Justin, Melissa, and their colleagues related to guardianship reform and expanding access to less restrictive alternatives. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Rose, and children, Meridian and Samson.
	Rafik Nader Wahbi MPH, and PhD Student at University of California, Los Angeles Presentation: Abolishing Involuntary Commitment Rafik Nader Wahbi is an educator, student, and researcher of Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) abolition and harm reduction. His scholarship and research focus on how abolitionist and harm reduction social movements, community-based organizations, and organizers, create social change to reimagine public health and healthcare systems. Rafik researches the historical and social processes of racialization and criminalization and the various actors and systems who perpetuate structural violence against those who use drugs and or have a mental health disability.

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 Sports Complex Garage two blocks west of the law school.

Special Accommodations:

Individuals with disabilities who need special assistance should call (317) 274-8036 no later than one week prior to the event. Special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs.

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