Kathleen M. Boozang (born April 21, 1959) is Dean and Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law.
She joined Seton Hall in 1990 after practicing law for several years, and, prior to becoming Dean in 2015, developed the Law School's center of excellence in healthcare law (1993), created new programs in compliance education for industry professionals and practicing attorneys (2004), and built the Law School's Division of Online Learning (2012). She has served as a member of senior administration of Seton Hall Law School and in the Provost's office at Seton Hall University since 2000. In July 2015, she became the eighth dean of Seton Hall Law and the third woman to serve in the role.
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Biography
Kathleen Boozang was born in Galveston, Texas and raised in Connecticut. She graduated from St. Joseph High School in 1977 and earned her B.S. in Business, magna cum laude, from Boston College, where she was a member of the School of Management Honors Program and a Scholar of the College of Arts & Sciences writing a thesis in Moral Theology.
She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Washington University School of Law (1984), serving as Managing Editor of the school's Law Quarterly. She was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Boozang earned her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Yale Law School (1990).
Dean Boozang was an Associate at the law firm, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. in St. Louis (1984-89), where she developed an expertise in healthcare law and governance of Catholic health systems. She was named Of Counsel (1990-2003) when she left St. Louis to attend Yale Law School.
She joined Seton Hall Law School as Assistant Professor (1990), recruited by then Dean Ronald J. Riccio for her expertise in healthcare law. She launched the Health Law & Policy Program (1993), serving as its director (1993-2003), which has been ranked in the Top 10 of U.S. News & World Report for such programs since 1996. She was promoted to full Professor of Law (1997), and named Director of Health Law Graduate Programs (1997-2003), then appointed Associate Dean for Academics (2000-07) and Associate Dean for Academic Advancement (2007-10). She served as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Interim Vice Provost at Seton Hall University (2010-11). She then returned to Seton Hall Law as Associate Dean for Academic Advancement and launched the Law School's Division of Online Learning (2012). She succeeded Patrick E. Hobbs as Dean of the Law School in July 2015.
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Works, Honors and Recognition
Dean Boozang was elected to the American Bar Foundation in 2008 and the American Law Institute in 2009. She was elected a Fellow of the Hastings Center and received the Jay Healey Teacher of the Year Award from the health law professors of the American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics in 2013. The New Jersey Law Journal honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
Dean Boozang has served on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Health Law Advisory Board (2005-07); the editorial boards of the Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law (2007-15) and the Journal of Life Sciences Compliance (2012-2015); and she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2001-06). She was a member of the Bioethics Committee of Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside, New Jersey (1995-2000) and of the UMDNJ Pediatrics Bioethics Committee (1997-99). She served on the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center External Advisory Committee for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2001-04).
Dean Boozang was also advisor on the New Jersey Attorney General's Task Force on Physician Compensation by Pharmaceutical Companies (2007-09), which produced the Report on Physician Compensation Arrangements and proposed regulations for consideration by Board of Medical Examiners and Board of Pharmacy. Governor Pataki of New York appointed her to the New York State Task Force for Life and the Law (1998-2011). She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Joseph Healthcare System in Paterson, New Jersey.
Dean Boozang has helped advance legal education and the profession in the State of New Jersey. She served on the Legal Education Committee of the New Jersey Bar Association (1995-99), co-chairing the committee from 2003-06. She was also a founding Board member of the New Jersey Law and Empowerment Project (NJ LEEP), helping the new organization develop a curriculum to provide academic enrichment opportunities to college-bound middle and high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, while introducing them to a career path in the law.
Selected works
White Papers by the Seton Hall Law Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy
The False Claims Act & the Policing of Promotional Claims About Drugs: A Call for Increased Transparency (2015) (with Kate Greenwood and Charles A. Sullivan).
Limits of Disclosure as a Response to Financial Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research (2010) (collaborator).
Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Trial Recruitment & Enrollment: A Call for Increased Oversight (2009) (collaborator).
Drug and Device Promotion: Charting a Course for Policy Reform (2009) (collaborator).
Peer Reviewed
Toward Evidence-Based Conflicts of Interest Training for Physician-Investigators, J L Med Ethics (2012) (with Carl H. Coleman and Kate Greenwood).
An Argument Against Embedding Conflicts of Interest Disclosures in Informed Consent, lawyers article.pdf 4 J.H. & LIFE SCIENCES L 230 (2011) (with Carl H. Coleman and Kate Greenwood).
Independence and Transparency: Keys to Good Corporate Governance, 1 J. HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES L. 127 (2008).
Mission, Margin & Trust in the Nonprofit Healthcare Enterprise, 5 YALE J. HEALTH POL'Y, L. & ETHICS 1 (2005) (with T.L. Greaney).
National Policy on CAM: The White House Commission Report, 31 J.L.MED. & ETHICS 251 (2003).
Developing a Public Policy Toward the Sectarian Provider: Accommodating Religious Beliefs and Obtaining Patient Access to Care, 24 J. L. MED. & ETHICS 89 (1996).
Professional Reviewed
The New Relator: In-House Counsel and Compliance Officers, J. H & LIFE SCIENCES L. (2012).
Law Reviews
Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine: When is Falling Down on the Job a Crime?, 6 J. HEALTH L & POL'Y 77 (2012).
"Monitoring" Corporate Corruption: DOJ's Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements in Health Care, 35 Am. J. L. Med 89 (Spring 2009) (with Simone Handler-Hutchison).
Does Director Independence Improve Nonprofit Governance? 75 TENN. L REV 83 (2007).
Therapeutic Placebos: Making the Case for Patient Deception, 54 FLA. L. REV. 687 (2002).
Is the Alternative Medicine? Managed Care Apparently Thinks So, 32 CONN. L. REV. 567 (2000).
Western Medicine Opens the Door to Alternative Medicine, XXIV J. LAW & MED. 185 (1998).
An Intimate Passing: Restoring the Role of Family and Religion in Dying 58 U. PITT. L. REV. 549 (1997).
The Survival of Religious Hospitals in a World of Reformed Health Care, 31 HOUSTON L. REV. 1429 (1995).
Edited Monographs
AHLA PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLIANCE MANUAL (2012 First Ed., with Simone Handler-Hutchinson).
SYMPOSIUM: IS A FOR-PROFIT STRUCTURE A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR A HEALTH CARE MINISTRY? (2013).
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