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Learn About Federal Scholarships and Loan Repayment Programs For Primary Care Clinicians

May. 11, 2012
student-loans

Regional Supervisor for the US Public Health Service, Captain W. Gary Hlady, MD, MS, to address students attending LeadAmerica's Medicine & Healthcare Conference at UCSF/Berkeley. Dr. Hlady's lecture topic will be Federal Scholarship and loan repayment opportunities for primary care clinicians. The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps employs more than 6,000 public health professionals for the purpose of delivering public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science. Members of the Commissioned Corps often serve on the frontlines in the fight against disease and poor health conditions. The mission of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the United States. According to the PHSCC, this mission is achieved through rapid and effective response to public health needs, leadership and excellence in public health practices, and advancement of public health science.


Neuroscience: Because Every Other Organ Is Just Following Orders

May. 10, 2012
Neuroscience

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (July 7 - 16 session) Prof. James Giordano, PhD, MPhil, Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies and Vice President for Academic Programs at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies to address students attending LeadAmerica's Explore Medicine & Science and Medicine & Healthcare conferences at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Giordano is a 2011-2012 Fulbright Professor of Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Ethics at the Human Science Center of Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany; and Research Professor of Neurosciences and Ethics in the Department of Electrical and Computational Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Prof. Giordano received a BSc(cum laude) in physiological psychology from St. Peter's college: MA in neuropsychology from Norwich University, and was awarded MPhil(philosophy of psychology) and PhD(biological psychology) degrees with distinction from the City University of New York. He was NIEHS-Postdoctoral fellow in Neurotoxicology and neuropathology at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center and School of Public Health; Baltimore MD, and completed post-graduate studies in ethics and health policy at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy of Loyola University, Chicago, IL.


Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer, J.D., to address students attending LeadAmerica's Law & Trial program at Stanford University

May. 10, 2012
Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer | Stanford University

(June 23-July 2 Session Only) Larry Kramer joined Stanford Law School in 2004 as Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean. As the school's 12th dean, he has spearheaded significant educational reforms, including dramatically expanding joint degree programs as part of a multidisciplinary approach to legal studies, enlarging the clinical education program to promote reflective lawyering, revamping programs to foster a public service ethos, and building the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice. Dean Kramer has written and taught in such varied fields as constitutional law, conflict of laws, civil procedure, federalism and its history, and the role of courts in society. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute. In December 2008, Equal Justice Works named Dean Kramer to its Board of Directors. He has appointments (by courtesy) with the Stanford University Department of History and with the Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Dean Kramer served as Associate Dean for Research and Academics and Russell D. Niles Professor of Law at New York University School of Law; professor of law at the University of Chicago and University of Michigan law schools; and consultant for Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. Early in his career, Dean Kramer clerked for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.


Stanford Law School Professor Jeff Fisher, J.D., to address students attending LeadAmerica's Law & Trial program at Stanford University.

May. 10, 2012
Stanford Law School Professor Jeff Fisher | Supreme Court Clerk & Lawyer

A leading authority on Supreme Court practice and nationally recognized expert on criminal procedure, Jeffrey L. Fisher's work at the law school revolves around handling cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. His successes include bringing and winning the landmark cases of Crawford v. Washington and Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, in which he persuaded the Court to adopt a new approach to the Constitution's Confrontation Clause; Blakely v. Washington, in which the Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to sentencing guidelines; and Kennedy v. Louisiana, in which the Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits states from imposing capital punishment for crimes against individuals that do not result in death. In 2006, The National Law Journal named Professor Fisher one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America-the youngest person on the list. In addition to his teaching and practice concerning the Supreme Court, Professor Fisher has published numerous articles on various criminal and constitutional issues, and he currently is writing a treatise on the Confrontation Clause. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Professor Fisher co-chaired the appellate practice group of Davis Wright Tremaine. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Attend LeadAmerica's Law & Trial Conference at Stanford Law School.


Stanford Law School Professor Norman Spaulding, J.D., to address students attending LeadAmerica's Law & Trial program at Stanford University.

May. 9, 2012
Stanford Law School Professor Norman Spaulding | Stanford University

A nationally recognized scholar in the area of professional responsibility and the legal profession, Norman W. Spaulding's research focuses on the history of the American legal profession and professional identity. In 2004 the Association of American Law Schools presented him with its Outstanding Scholarly Paper Prize for "Constitution as Counter-Monument: Federalism, Reconstruction and the Problem of Collective Memory," which was published in the Columbia Law Review. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2005, he was a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law and an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he did environmental litigation. Professor Spaulding '97 served as a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher (BA '43) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Thelton Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.


Vice Dean of the Stanford Law School, Mark Kelman, J.D., to address students attending LeadAmerica's Law & Trial program at Stanford University

May. 8, 2012
law-justice-conference

A prolific scholar whose jurisprudential interests range from law and economics to cognitive psychology, Mark G. Kelman has applied social science approaches to diverse legal fields including criminal law, taxation, administrative regulation, and disability law. He has focused over the past few years on debates about the fundamental nature of heuristic reasoning associated, respectively, with the heuristics and biases school and the fast and frugal heuristics school. He is especially concerned with the implications of these debates for a wide variety of issues of both legal theory and policy (ranging from questions about whether values are commensurable or the ordinary tendency to spend more willingly to rescue identifiable victims than to prevent "statistical" lives from being lost is defensible to controversies over the efficacy of distinct forms of criminal sanctions). He has also recently been engaged in a substantial experimental research project on moral reasoning and has a long-term interest in whether neuroscientists can help us better understand judgment and decision making. In addition to being a longtime teacher of both criminal law and property to first-year students, he has served as the academic coordinator, academic associate dean, and, currently, vice dean at the law school. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1977, Professor Kelman was the director of criminal justice projects for the Fund for the City of New York.


Stanford Law School Professor George Fisher, J.D., to address students attending LeadAmerica's Law & Trial program at Stanford University

May. 8, 2012
attorney-general

A former Massachusetts assistant attorney general and assistant district attorney, George Fisher is one of the nation's top scholars of criminal law and evidence. In his scholarship he explores, through meticulous archival research, the history of criminal law and criminal institutions from prisons to juries, from plea bargaining to the regulation of alcohol and drugs. Professor Fisher's publications include an acclaimed casebook on evidence and a history of plea bargaining in America. Professor Fisher is the faculty co-director of the Criminal Prosecution Clinic at the law school and a three-time winner of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford Law School. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1995, he was a clinical professor at Boston College Law School, an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, and an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Early in his career Professor Fisher clerked for Judge Stephen G. Breyer (BA '59) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.


Assistant US Surgeon General, James M. Galloway, MD, FACP, FACC to address students attending LeadAmerica's Medicine & Healthcare Conference at DePaul University

May. 8, 2012
surgeon-general

Dr. Galloway was appointed to the position of Regional Health Administrator in March 2007 by the Assistant Secretary of Health (ASH) and is the lead federal physician, the principal federal public health official and the senior USPHS officer for Region V, which encompasses the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Dr. Galloway reports directly to the Assistant Secretary of Health and serves as the Department's principal representative for public health in the field for this region. Dr. Galloway provides advice on matters of health care and public health and participates in policy development and implementation at the regional and national levels. As the Regional Health Administrator, Dr. Galloway's leadership responsibilities include disease prevention, health promotion, women's and minority health, the reduction of health disparities, the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Medical Reserve Corps, pandemic influence and emergency planning. He is actively involved in the push for enhanced access to quality health care.


Stanford Law School Professor Bill Koski, J.D., Ph.D., to address students attending LeadAmerica's Law & Trial program at Stanford University

May. 8, 2012
education-law

An accomplished clinical teacher and litigator, William Koski (PhD '03) is the founder and director of the law school's Youth and Education Law Project (YELP). He and the students in the law project have represented hundreds of disadvantaged children and their families in educational equity, disability rights, and school reform matters. Professor Koski and YELP are currently representing more than 60 students from across California in the pathbreaking Robles-Wong v. California lawsuit that seeks to reform California's dysfunctional and insufficient K-12 public school finance system. Reflecting his multidisciplinary background as a lawyer and social scientist, Professor Koski's scholarly work focuses on the related issues of educational accountability, equity, and adequacy; the politics of educational policy reform; and judicial decision making in educational policy reform litigation. Professor Koski's current research concentrates on the normative case for and policy implications of ensuring equality of educational opportunity in the current context of educational standards, adequacy, and accountability. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2001, Professor Koski was a lecturer in law at Stanford and a supervising attorney at the law school's East Palo Alto Community Law Project. He was also an associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and then Alden, Aronovsky & Sax. Professor Koski has an appointment (by courtesy) with the Stanford School of Education.


Assistant US Surgeon General James M. Galloway, MD, FACP, FACC, to address students attending LeadAmerica's Explore Medicine & Science Conference at DePaul University.

May. 7, 2012
surgeon-general

Dr. Galloway was appointed to the position of Regional Health Administrator in March 2007 by the Assistant Secretary of Health (ASH) and is the lead federal physician, the principal federal public health official and the senior USPHS officer for Region V, which encompasses the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,, Ohio and Wisconsin. Dr. Galloway reports directly to the Assistant Secretary of Health and serves as the Department's principal representative for public health in the field for this region. Dr. Galloway provides advice on matters of health care and public health and participates in policy development and implementation at the regional and national levels. As the Regional Health Administrator, Dr. Galloway's leadership responsibilities include disease prevention, health promotion, women's and minority health, the reduction of health disparities, the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Medical Reserve Corps, pandemic influence and emergency planning. He is actively involved in the push for enhanced access to quality health care.


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