Introducing Tracy E. Miller, Executive Director of Seton Hall Law’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy
Today we are very pleased to welcome Tracy E. Miller, J.D., to Health Reform Watch. Ms. Miller is the Executive Director of Seton Hall Law’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and her undergraduate degree from Brown University, magna cum laude. From 2001-2007, Ms. Miller served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of the Catholic Health Care System (CHCS), a health care system comprised of hospitals and nursing homes in New York City and the Hudson Valley. While at CHCS, Ms. Miller oversaw legal and compliance services for the Health System and its ten member facilities. Prior to joining CHCS, Ms. Miller was Vice President for Quality and Regulatory Affairs at the Greater New York Hospital Association.
From 1996-2000, Ms. Miller was Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where her scholarship and publications focused on a range of topics, including medicine online, financial disclosure, and trust in the patient-physician relationship, and managed care regulation. During that time, Ms. Miller also served as Project Director of the National Quality Forum Planning Committee, a group of national leaders in health care delivery and quality convened by Vice President Gore. The committee was charged with building a new national organization to set standards for quality measurement and improvement across the health care industry. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Ms. Miller was the founding Executive Director of the Governor’s Task Force on Life and the Law, a commission of experts and leaders drawn from healthcare, legal, civic, and religious organizations to craft policy for New York State. In that capacity, she developed law and policy on issues raised by medical advances, including New York’s health care proxy law, the do-not-resuscitate law, and the law on the procurement and distribution of organs for transplantation.
Ms. Miller is the Past Chairperson of the 1100-member Health Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and a Member of the Health Law Section Executive Committee from 1995-2001. She has written and spoken extensively to national and state organizations on healthcare policy, law and ethics. She joined Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy as Executive Director in 2008.
Posts from Health Reform Watch have been cited by media sources throughout the country, including The New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Kaiser Health News, The Health Care Blog, NPR's Planet Money Blog, Duke Univ. Med. Center News, American Health Line Alerts, BusinessWeek.com, Concurring Opinions, Balkinization, The New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Las Vegas Sun, Maggie Mahar, Ezra Klein, Tom Geoghegan, and the official homepage of the Office of the Democratic Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer.
