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Chronic Disease Management: Does It Improve Health and Save Money?

May 16, 2008 — A study published in the May/June issue of Health Affairs reports on the first randomized trial providing a scientifically valid look at what one might expect from chronic disease management programs that serve low-income individuals. The study result provides good news for state Medicaid leaders struggling to meet the needs of individuals with chronic conditions and also suggests that some disease management efforts, even among relatively low-risk patients, may be an effective strategy.   Full Story

Law, Medicine, Nursing, and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduates Return to IUPUI for Reunion

May 16, 2008 — More than 800 alumni and friends are expected to return to IUPUI this weekend as four schools on the campus - the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, the IU School of Medicine, the IU School of Nursing, and the IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - celebrate IU Alumni Weekend.   Full Story

Schools of Science and Medicine Launch $2.9 Million National Science Foundation GK-12 Science Education Program at IUPUI

May 16, 2008 — Take a $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant, mix with research graduate students at IUPUI and pour into Indianapolis Public Schools middle and high school science classrooms and outdoor learning laboratories.   Full Story

IUPUI’s Newest Ph.D. Program at the Interface between Statistics and the Life Sciences

May 16, 2008 — The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has approved a Ph.D. degree program in biostatistics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The program, which is unique to Indiana and leads to a degree from Indiana University, is a collaboration of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the School of Science and the Division of Biostatistics in the IU School of Medicine.   Full Story

French President Names IUPUI Professor a "Chevalier"

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May 7, 2008 — IUPUI Professor Eric M. Meslin, director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, was named a Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Merite - Knight of the National Order of Merit - by the President of France.   Full Story

IUPUI Scientists Report First 3-D View of Anti-Cancer Agent

March 18, 2008 — Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Purdue School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have created the first three-dimensional image of how a well-established chemotherapy agent targets and binds to DNA. The study, which publishes online the week of March 17 in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help scientists develop better chemotherapy drugs to treat a wide range of cancers.   Full Story


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David Orentlicher

Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law

Before coming to the law school in 1995, David Orentlicher served as director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association for six-and-a-half years. He also held adjunct appointments at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University Medical School, and from 1992 to 1995, served on the founding board of the American Association of Bioethics. Following law school, where he was a commentary and book review office chair of the Harvard Law Review, he clerked for the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has practiced both medicine and law, each for about two years. In March 1995, he was a George E. Allen Professor of Law at T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, and during the 1997-98 academic year he was the Visiting DeCamp Professor in Bioethics at Princeton University.

He published, Matters of Life and Death, with Princeton University Press, and he is also a co-author of the casebook, Health Care Law and Ethics. His more than 80 articles in leading legal and medical journals address critical issues in medical ethics, including end-of-life decisions, new reproductive technologies, and managed care.

Currently, he is on the core faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, an adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and a member of the American Law Institute. He also serves on the board of the Gennesaret Free Clinic. Since November 2002, he has served in the Indiana House of Representatives.

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