Health Law Careers in the Public Sector
Description
The Harvard Health Law Society hosted this panel discuss where students learned more about practicing health law through a public interest career.
This event was free and open to the public.
Featured Panelists
Ellen Weinstein (HLS '06) is a healthcare lawyer with a wide-ranging practice at Boston Medical Center, where she serves as Deputy General Counsel. At BMC, a full-service academic medical center and the region’s largest safety net hospital, Weinstein provides regulatory, transactional, compliance/government enforcement, and governance counsel. She has a particular focus on patient quality, safety, and experience, including serving on the hospital’s Patient Safety Steering Committee, Ethics Committee, Accessibility Committee and Transgender Patient Taskforce. Weinstein also advises on the implementation of health care reform at the provider level, including the development of accountable care organizations. Before joining Boston Medical Center, she practiced in the health care group at Ropes & Gray. Weinstein has a BA from Yale College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and completed a fellowship in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Brookline, MA, where she can usually be found either chasing her son, listening to podcasts, or reading, and occasionally all three at the same time.
Matt Selig is the Executive Director at Health Law Advocates, a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm whose mission is to provide pro bono legal representation to low-income residents experiencing difficulty accessing or paying for needed medical services. Matt has advocated for health care access for lower-income consumers since the early 1990’s. Matt began his professional career as the staff assistant for the Chief Counsel for Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s staff on the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (now known as the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions). After law school, Matt worked in the Massachusetts State House as a legislative aide to State Representative Kay Khan. In the State House, Matt drafted and helped enact various legislative and budgetary provisions including measures to improve mental health services and correctional health care. At HLA, Matt has represented and advised clients unjustly denied health care access and advocated for public policies to benefit low-income health care consumers. He received his JD from Suffolk University Law School where he graduated magna cum laude, and an undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Sandra Ullman Wolitzky (HLS '12) is an Assistant Attorney General in the Health Care Division of the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts. The Health Care Division enforces health care laws to protect the rights of Massachusetts consumers and works to promote public health and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, she clerked for Judge Carlos Bea at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Denise Casper at the District Court for the District of Massachusetts and practiced law in the commercial litigation group at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
Sponsored by the Harvard Health Law Society and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.