Professor Janet L. Dolgin was quoted in the following New York Times article.

A Legal Puzzle: Can a Baby Have Three Biological Parents?
by Adam Cohen
January 25, 2010

EXCERPT:

The problem, as Janet Dolgin, a Hofstra Law School professor, wrote in the Akron Law Review, is that legal thinking is deeply divided over how to judge what makes a family.

Since the 1960s, there has been a shift toward recognizing people’s intent in creating familial relationships, as reflected in the rise of no-fault divorce, prenuptial agreements and civil unions. But when it comes to deciding parenthood, courts remain deeply influenced by biology, even when it clashes with intent.

Hofstra University's Law School, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Education, Health and Human Services will hold the second annual Health Policy Breakfast Lecture on Friday, February 13, 2009 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Hofstra University Club.

The event is by invitation only. For more information or to RSVP, contact Janet L. Dolgin, director of Hofstra Law's Institute for Health Law and Policy and Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care, at 516.463.5873 or lawjld@hofstra.edu.

Richard Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, will present "AHA's Framework for Health Care Reform: Health for Life - Better Health, Better Health Care." Michael Dowling, CEO of the North Shore/LIJ Health System and Art Gianelli, CEO of the Nassau University Medical Center will participate as respondents.

The Health Policy Breakfast Series was established to set the stage for the New Directions in American Health Care Conference Hofstra is hosting March 11 and 12, 2010. The series and conference are co-directed by Dolgin, Corinne Kyriacou, assistant professor of health professions and family studies and Rachel Kreier, assistant professor of economics.

Hofstra Law School offers a J.D. Concentration in Health Law and supports a Fellowship for Health Law and Policy.

Professor Janet L. Dolgin, Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Health Law & Policy, is a member of Hofstra University’s Health Policy Conference Planning Committee.

The committee will host Dr. Stuart Altman, former dean of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Sol C. Chaikin professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University, for its first of a three-part breakfast series titled, Election Results and the Future of Health Care Reform, on November 19, 2008 at the University Club from 8 – 10 a.m. Sponsoring this event is EmblemHealth, Educate ’08, Hofstra’s School of Education, Health and Human Services, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Law.

“President-elect Barack Obama has proposed significant changes to the health care system to enhance access to care, improve the quality of care and to reign in healthcare costs,” said Corinne Kyriacou, Ph.D, assistant professor in the Department of Health Professions and Family Studies and a member of the Health Policy Conference Planning Committee. “There is no one better equipped to analyze the potential impact of these proposed reforms, or to predict the likelihood of their implementation in the current environment than Dr. Stuart Altman.”

Dr. Altman is a health economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. In 2006, Health Affairs listed him among the authors of the 25 Most-Read Health Affairs Papers and Modern Healthcare listed him among the 30 people who have had the most influence on healthcare over the past 30 years and among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare over the last five years.

The breakfast series was established to set the stage for a large-scale national conference, New Directions in American Health Care: Innovations from Home and Abroad to be hosted by Hofstra University March 11 and 12, 2010.

Joining Dr. Kyriacou (Community Health) on the Hofstra University Health Policy Conference Planning Committee are; Janet Dolgin, Ph.D., J.D. (Law) and Rachel Kreier, Ph.D. (Economics).

The second health policy breakfast lecture is scheduled for February 13, 2009 from 8 – 10 a.m. at the University Club. Mr. Richard Umbdenstock, President and CEO of the American Hospital Association will give a talk titled, AHA’s Framework for Health Care Reform: Health for Life - Better Health, Better Health Care. Arthur Gianelli, President and CEO of Nassau University Medical Center and Michael Dowling, President and CEO of North Shore/LIJ Health System will participate as respondents. The third special health policy pre-conference breakfast will be held in the fall of 2009 with more details to come.

Professor Janet Dolgin will speak at the 10th annual meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities October 23 in a session entitled "Cutting to the Core: A Parental Dispute Over Circumcision of a 12-Year Old Boy." The session focuses on Boldt v. Boldt, a custody dispute entertained by the Supreme Court of Oregon January 2008.