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April Moreno
Program Director
University of Houston Law Center
Health Law & Policy Institute
4170 Martin Luther King Blvd
Houston, TX 77204-6060
(713) 743-2101
E-mail: healthlaw@uh.edu

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Health Law & Policy Institute

EVENTS

PAST EVENTS

Neuroplasticity

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Leslie C. Griffin
University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law

April 14, 2025

Rise in Firearm-Related Injuries Among Women

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Summer Chavez
University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine

April 7, 2025

Moving Upstream to Improve Health Outcomes

Elena

Elena M. Marks, J.D., M.P.H
Senior Fellow in Health Policy
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Elena M. Marks, J.D., M.P.H., is the senior fellow in health policy at the Baker Institute. Her work focuses on reforming the $4.5 trillion health system so that it produces positive health outcomes, not just medical services. This work includes incorporating the delivery of and payment for nonmedical interventions into the system when appropriate to improve health outcomes.

Marks has been affiliated with the Baker Institute in a variety of capacities since 2010. Previously, she served as the founding president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation, a $1.3 billion nonprofit, from 2014 to 2022 and as the director of health and environmental policy for the city of Houston from 2004 to 2009. Earlier in her career, she practiced law and started, built and sold a successful law-related business. Marks holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University, a law degree from The University of Texas School of Law and a master’s in public health from The University of Texas School of Public Health

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Health Care Fraud and the End of Chevron

Nicholas J. Diamond

Joan H. Krause
Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law

March 24, 2025

Ethico-Legal “Futures” in Genomic Medicine

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Bartha Knoppers
Founding Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University

March 20, 2025

Careers in Health Law

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David S. Cade
Executive View President and CEO of the American Health Law Association 

February 18, 2025

Texas Healthcare: Requiring Public Hospitals to Report Expenditures for Undocumented Immigrants

Nicholas J. Diamond

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom Webinar

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Presentations

Justice and Health for All: The Future of Affirmative Action in Legal and Medical Education

Nicholas J. Diamond

Friday, April 12, 2024
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Central

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Telemedicine: A Path to Achieving Health Equity?

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Chinelo Diké-Minor

Assistant Professor of Law at the Samford University Cumberland School of Law

February 12, 2024

Addiction and Liberty

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Matthew Lawrence
Associate Professor of Law at Emory Law School

March 27, 2023