About
Office of the General Counsel Roundtable
Launched in 2019, the Petrie-Flom Center’s Office of the General Counsel Roundtable is a forum for leading health lawyers to come together for peer conversations and education. Facilitated by Faculty Director, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, and Deputy Dean I. Glenn Cohen, and Executive Director Susannah Baruch, this invitation-only Roundtable connects Harvard University faculty with leadership at important health care entities, such as Merck Pharmaceuticals and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, for small group discussions. It also provides the Petrie-Flom Center a better sense of of key health law policy issues impacting real world practice, which in turn informs our research priorities.
Previous speakers to the Roundtable have included:
- Alan Garber, Provost, Harvard University
- David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University
- Leemore Dafny, Bruce V. Rauner Professor Of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
- Scott Westfahl, Professor of Practice and Director of Executive Education, Harvard Law School
- David Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Director, Center on the Legal Profession, and Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School
- Michal Barzuza, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
- Kelly Cleary, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Previous topics of discussion have included:
- Board dynamics and diversity
- Challenges facing general counsels
- Economic valuation during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Health care consolidation
- Institutional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Leadership and crisis management
- Regulatory sprint in fraud and abuse