Dawes, '06, to Speak at American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Health Law Professors Conference

17 Mar 2015

Daniel E. Dawes, '06, was invited to speak at the Opening Plenary of the 2015 American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME) Health Law Professors Conference. The conference is the major annual conference of ASLME and the largest covening of academics teaching health law and bioethics in law school, medical school, public health and other university settings. The Opening Plenary is inteded to prompt a discussion about health equity, and how health law professors can/should be engaged in advancing racial and ethnic health equity through their teaching, scholarship and service.

Dawes is a healthcare attorney and the Executive Director of government relations, health policy, and external affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine. In addition to his executive role, Daniel is a director of health policy and a lecturer of health law and policy at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine. During the negotiations around health reform, he founded and chaired the National Working Group on Health Disparities and Health Reform, a working group of more than 300 national organizations and coalitions that worked to ensure that the health care reform law included health equity provisions to reduce disparities in health status and health care among vulnerable populations.