Late Applicants interested in starting
Fall 2013: contact Zarin Shaghaghi
at zshaghaghi@ucsd.edu or (858) 534-9159

Bryan Liang, M.D., Ph.D., J.D.,
Director

Bryan has been honored with the 2012 UCSD Graduate Student Community Faculty Mentorship award and was recently appointed to the board of the American College of Chest Physicians Mass Casualty Task Force and Council of Foreign Relations Global Drug Safety Roundtable.

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This joint graduate degree features:

• Innovative health law curriculum built on the academic strength and reputation from the UCSD School of Medicine and California Western School of Law
• Interactive teaching focused on practical, timely topics and challenges in health law including delivery of care, product and system regulation, management of research and development, and public policy.
• Flexible, part-time program for working professionals
• Opportunity to network and collaborate with leaders in the legal and healthcare fields and professionals from related disciplines.
  

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
Health Law Graduate Tim Mackey (Bio) (2009) is a recipient of the Rita L. Atkinson Graduate Fellowship for 2011-12, and has co-authored multiple articles with professor Bryan A. Liang. Details on publications.

Current Health Law student Katherine Pettus, PhD, has published an article in the July 2012 issue of San Diego Physician Magazine called Global Health Ethics: A Response to 'Total Pain.' (pdf).

Health Law Graduate Marilyn Mitchell (2009) has published an article "An analysis of common arguments against Advance Directives" (pdf) in the December 2011 peer reviewed journal Nursing Ethics, and "A Test of Autonomy" in the July 2012 issue of San Diego Physician Magazine.

Health Law Graduate Mark Boyd (2010) has published an article in the Stanford Law and Policy Review 2011 "PTSD in Returning Wounded Warriors: Ensuring Medically Appropriate Evaluation and Legal Representation Through Legislative Reform" (pdf)

Bryan Liang and Judith McCarter(2010) published an article: "Cooperative Compliance Healthcare Fraud and Abuse" (pdf)

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