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The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Hall Center for Law and Health will open its Grand Rounds Lecture Series at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 14 with “Mergers and Acquisitions in the Trump Era: Expect the Unexpected.”

Uncertainty reigns for the long term political fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as ongoing efforts from Congress and the administration to repeal and replace significant chunks of that landmark statute continue. In this tumultuous environment, healthcare providers are seeking innovative strategies to conserve capital, manage populations, tie up referrals and find efficiencies.

Speakers Elizabeth Walker, Principal, BDC Advisors, and Kevin Woodhouse, Partner, Ice Miller, will address the legal issues within a larger public policy context of the ACA and other important health law issues in a rapidly evolving health-law landscape.

Following this presentation, attendees will be invited to participate in a question and answer session during which they can discuss how best to advise their clients about these important health law issues. 

The event will take place in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall.

Additional upcoming Grand Rounds Series events and speakers include:

• Thursday, October 5: Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law, Washington University St. Louis School of Law, will present on “Religion and Reproductive Health in a Consolidating Healthcare Market.”

Professor Sepper is a health law scholar whose work explores the interaction of morality, professional ethics, and law in health care and insurance. She has written extensively on conscientious refusals to provide reproductive and end-of-life healthcare and on conflicts over religious liberty and insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage mandate.

• Thursday, November 9: Leo Beletsky, Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Northeastern University School of Law, will present a lecture, “Murder by Overdose: Deploying Punishment as an Antidote to the Overdose Crisis.”

Professor Beletsky has a joint appointment at the School of Law and Bouvé School of Health Sciences, where he is also a faculty scholar with the Institute on Urban Health Research. He is an interdisciplinary social epidemiologist whose interest is in the role of law and law enforcement as structural determinants of health. His domestic and international projects span drug policy, prevention of HIV and other infectious diseases, human rights, law enforcement practice, and evidence-based healthcare.

All Grand Rounds events are free and provide 1.0 hour of Indiana CLE credit, but registration is required.