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Professor Susan M. Wolf, McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine and Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law; and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, is this year’s recipient of the McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award, and will present the annual lecture associated with the award on February 20 at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

At the University of Minnesota, Professor Wolf is the founding chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences and founding director of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Science and Technology. She is also a professor of medicine and a faculty member in the Center for Bioethics.

“Professor Wolf is not only one of the foremost legal scholars of our time but also a true pioneer in cutting edge cross-disciplinary research,” said Professor Nicolas P. Terry, executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at IU McKinney.

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.

The annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Lectureship and Award for Excellence in Law and Medicine is supported by a bequest to the IU McKinney School of Law and the Indiana University School of Medicine. This lecture and award brings leading scholars and policy makers in the fields of law and medicine to the Indianapolis campus for the benefit of students, faculty, the bar and the medical community.

The lecture will begin at noon on February 20 in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall. It will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Efthimios Paradisis, M.BE., J.D., Associate Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; and Dr. Kimberly Quaid, Ph.D., Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine and Faculty Investigator, Indiana University Center for Bioethics. A total of 2.0 hours of Indiana CLE is available. To learn more, contact the IU McKinney Hall Center for Law and Health at centerlh@iu.edu, or visit the IU McKinney website.