May 10, 2016

4:30–6 p.m.
Instructional Building
72 East Concord Street
Hiebert Lounge
Live-Streaming Available During Event
#PHForum2016

Susan M. Wolf

McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law; Chair, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota

Professor Susan M. Wolf is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law; and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and founding director of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Science & Technology.

Wolf is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and an elected fellow of The Hastings Center as well as a past member of the Fellows’ Council. She has received numerous grants to support her research, including from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and The Greenwall Foundation. From 2007 to 2010, Wolf served as a member of the Law & Neuroscience Project funded by the MacArthur Foundation. She has recently served as a senior consultant to The Hastings Center on its project on guidelines for end-of-life care, funded by the Donaghue Foundation and Sussman Trust. In 2012, she received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to fund research in 2012-2014.

Wolf teaches in the areas of health law, law and science, and bioethics. She is the faculty chair of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Concentration in Health Law & Bioethics. Wolf was co-holder of the 1999-2000 Julius E. Davis Chair in Law, a 1998-1999 Opperman Research Scholar, a 1996 recipient of the John K. & Elsie Lampert Fesler Research Grant, and a 1996 recipient of a University of Minnesota Medical School Merit Award. She was appointed to the Faegre Baker Daniels Professorship in Law in 2000 and the McKnight Presidential Professorship in Law, Medicine & Public Policy in 2006.

Wolf received an AB degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and a JD degree from Yale Law School, with graduate work at Harvard University. She clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and then practiced with the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1981 to 1984. From 1984 to 1985, Wolf was a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellow at The Hastings Center in New York, a senior bioethics research institute. She then became the center’s associate for law. She also taught law and medicine at New York University School of Law as an adjunct associate professor from 1987 to 1992. From 1992 to 1993, she was a fellow at Harvard University in the Program in Ethics and the Professions.