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Sarah
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Lecturer in Law and Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

  • Office 200-603G
  • Email Address hoopers@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4831
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Biography

Sarah Hooper, JD is the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy and Lecturer in Law at UC Law SF College of the Law. Professor Hooper teaches a number of courses in the health law program at UC Law SF and is the Faculty Advisor for the JD Concentration in Health Law & Policy. She also serves as Co-Director of the Master of Science in Health Policy & Law Degree (HPL) and the Policy Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors clinic.

Sarah has dedicated her career to developing innovative medical-legal collaborations that can advance equity in health care. She has a special interest in complex care, and in particular the role of law and lawyers in improving systems of care for underserved older individuals with complex medical and social needs.

Her work encompasses clinical interventions such as the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic, research collaborations such as the Care Ecosystem trial, and educational initiatives for providers and the public such as the Optimizing Aging Collaborative and PREPARE. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and Health Affairs Blog.

Professor Hooper is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in the Fitz Mullan Health Workforce Institute at George Washington University.

Expertise

  • Health Care Law and Policy

Education

  1. University of California, Hastings College of the Law 2008

    J.D., Law

  2. University of California, Santa Barbara 2005

    B.A., Law and Society

  3. University of London Queen Mary 2004

    Study Abroad, Law & English

  4. George Washington University School of Public Health

    Leader in Health Equity Fellow, Health Equity

Selected Scholarship

  1. How an Interdisciplinary Care Team Reduces Prolonged Admissions Among Older Patients with Complex Needs 09/2021

    NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery

  2. Goals of Care Conversations and Subsequent Advance Care Planning Outcomes for People with Dementia 08/2021

    Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

  3. Advance Care Planning in an Online World: State Law Activity and Challenges Since COVID-19 08/2021

    Bill of Health

  4. Improving Medical-Legal Advance Care Planning 03/2020

    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

  5. The Medical-Legal Partnership Model: A Focus on Older Adults and Social Determinants of Health 01/2020

    Journal of the American Society on Aging

  6. Development of an adaptive, personalized, and scalable dementia care program: Early findings from the Care Ecosystem 03/2017

    PLoS Med

  7. Decision-making capacity and frontal lobe dysfunction 12/2017

    The Human Frontal Lobes: Functions and Disorders (3rd ed.)

  8. The effects of regulation and litigation on a large for-profit nursing home chain 05/2014

    Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

  9. The Need for Medical-Legal Dialogue in Care of Older Adults 01/2013

    GeriPal

  10. Improving the Civil Legal Response to Elder Financial Abuse: Making the Law Matter 01/2012

    Institute on Aging Access to Justice Initiative

  11. Lost in translation: the unintended consequences of advance directive law on clinical care. 01/2011

    Annals of Internal Medicine

Courses

  1. Elder Law
  2. Health Law: Research Ethics & Compliance
  3. Health Law & Policy Concentration Seminar
  4. HEAL Lab (Health Equity Advocacy & Leadership Seminar)

Links

  1. UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy
  2. Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors
  3. Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity

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