Health law and healthcare law expert witness work is supported by more than 15 years of experience in law, with expertise in health law organization and finance, bioethics, health policy, and medical malpractice reform. Her background includes a J.D., an LL.M. in Health Law, a B.A. in Philosophy, and additional study in philosophy. She has held academic, research, teaching, and policy responsibilities involving health law organization and finance, bioethics, reproductive rights, health coverage access, health policy, torts, medical malpractice reform, and ethics of scientific research. Her health law expertise includes healthcare organization and finance, bioethics, health policy, medical malpractice, Medicaid, Medicare, public health, health insurance, access to health coverage, healthcare law, medical ethics, reproductive rights, quality of care and liability, health reform, EMTALA, emergency department overcrowding, public health emergency response ethics, tobacco control, and secondhand smoke ordinances. Her legal experience includes defending medical malpractice and employment discrimination suits at trial and appellate levels, including written discovery, depositions, and motion practice. Her scholarship, teaching, presentations, and policy work address medical malpractice reform, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act issues, charity care, patient-centered care, racial and ethnic health disparities, defensive medicine, health insurance systems, public health disasters, court-ordered quarantine, health savings accounts, high deductible health plans, emergency medical care law, tobacco control ordinances, reproductive health law, artificial nutrition and hydration, and access to care. Her professional memberships include the Minnesota Bar Association, American Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, American Health Lawyers Association, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and Law and Society.