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Published on: 10/16/2009
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The next guy that they need to check out is a guy nnamed Edward F. Lawlor
In addition to serving as dean of the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) at Chicago, Lawlor is a professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, a senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and a core faculty member in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Lawlor has a distinguished record of scholarship in health policy, with expertise in the topics of medical indigence, health-care reform and administration, and policy for the aged and poor.
His groundbreaking work in Medicare policy is recognized for its originality and insightful analysis.
Lawlor's recently published book, Redesigning the Medicare Contract: Politics, Markets, and Agency, looks at Medicare as a social contract between society at large and its most vulnerable citizens.
He also is the founding editor of Public Policy and Aging Report, a quarterly journal on policy and research in an aging society.
At SSA, Lawlor's educational innovations have deepened community involvement for the school, its faculty and students.
Through a partnership with the Chicago Public Schools, SSA is developing a new model of social work practice for urban schools.
He also led a partnership with Chicago's Community Development Associates Inc. to deepen SSA's role as a resource to neighborhoods around the university.
Just as Lawlor has led SSA to deeper and sustainable community involvement, his own scholarship has been closely linked to community service.
From 1993-2000, he served as founder and director of the Chicago Health Policy Research Council, an organization dedicated to monitoring and disseminating information about health-system changes in Chicago.
For 10 years, he also served as the secretary of the Chicago Board of Health.
At the request of the American International Health Alliance in Romania, Lawlor led a team of researchers from the University of Chicago to analyze and improve that country's health-care system in the late '90s.
Recently, he served as vice chair of the Social Service Transition Committee for Rod Blagojevich as he prepared to become governor of Illinois.
Lawlor earned a bachelor's degree in economics, government and legal studies from Bowdoin College.
Before earning a doctorate from the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University in 1985, he was a research associate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for five years.
He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1985.
Here are some links to him, they tell who and what he is all about and explain what Sarah Palin was talking about in "DeathPanels"... he is also a board member of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation which is very interesting and also a board member of National Popular Vote...