Each year the Center invites a respected figure in health law scholarship to visit the law school as the Oliver C. Schroeder, Jr. Scholar-in-Residence. The Schroeder Scholar, named in honor of the Center’s founding director, takes part in classes and workshops, and delivers a public lecture, later published in Health Matrix.

Schroeder Scholars-in-Residence

• John A. Robertson
  Baker and Botts Professor of Law, University of Texas
• Alexander Morgan Capron
  University Professor of Law & Medicine, University of Southern California
• Don Harper Mills
  Past President, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Guido Calabresi
  Dean, Yale Law School
• George J. Annas
  Director, Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program, Boston University
• Ronald Dworkin
  Professor of Jurisprudence, Oxford University
  Professor of Law, New York University Law School
• The Honorable Donna E. Shalala
  United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Ron Pollack
  Founding Executive Director, Families USA
• Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.
  Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration
• Arnold Relman, M.D.
  Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine
• Sidney Wolfe, M.D.
  Director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen
• Susan F. Wood, Ph.D.
  Research Professor, George Washington, University School of Public Health and Health Services
  former Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health, FDA and former Director, FDA Office of Women's Health (2000-2005)
• Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D.
  Dean, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, Brandeis University
• Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.
  Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
  Chair, Department of Medical Ethics; Director, Center for Bioethics
  University of Pennsylvania
  Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D.
  National Institutes of Health
  President Obama's Health Care Reform Team
  White House Office of Management and Budget

Symposia & Conferences
The Center sponsors frequent symposia on timely issues in health law. These may be large-scale public conferences or smaller gatherings with an invited audience. Students are welcome to attend these and the continuing education programs that our faculty offers to lawyers and health care professionals.

In conjunction with the Student Health Law Association, the Center presents the Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum Program. Prominent speakers visit the law school for informal seminars on health law, bioethics, and policy. Zaremski speakers, who have included Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Thomas Murray, President of the Hasting Center, meet with students to discuss practical problems relating to health law and health care delivery.

National and International Conferences

• 1986 Legal Aspects of Health Care Cost Containment
• 1988 High Technology Health Care in the Home
• 1990 Health Law Teachers Conference
  (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics)
• 1992 Justice and Health Care I
• 1993 Justice and Health Care II (London)
• 1994 National Health Care Reform
• 1995 Physician Decision-Making and Managed Care
• 1996 The BRCA1 Breast Cancer Gene in the Jewish Population
• 1997 The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
• 1998 Germ Line Genetic Engineering
• 2000 Health Law Teachers Conference
  (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics)
• 2001 Biotech in Northeast Ohio
• 2003 The Law-Medicine Center 50th Anniversary Debate
• 2006 The Fifth Plague, a unique simulation-based symposium about bioterrorism readiness (cosponsored with The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy)
• 2006 Designing a National Health Care System
• 2008 Newborn Screening Symposium
• 2009 Health Law Teachers Conference
  (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics)