Member Spotlight: Eleanor Kinney ASLME proudly awarded the 2010 Jay Healey Teaching Award to member Eleanor Kinney, the Hall Render Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, for her dedication to teaching and the health law field.
This annual award is presented at ASLME’s Health Law Professors Conference to a professor who honors Healey’s legacy through a passion for teaching health law, mentoring of students, and inspiring colleagues.
“Eleanor has devoted the last twenty-five years to health law teaching and has made major contributions to her students, to research knowledge, and to public service,” says University of Texas at Austin’s Vice Provost for Health Affairs, Bill Sage, who hosted this year’s conference.
Kinney founded the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University and continues to serve as Co-Director of the Center. According to Sage, Kinney has developed a well-regarded JD and LLM programs whose graduates have found success in Indiana and elsewhere.
“She has always been a wonderful colleague and a committed advocate for patients and health care consumers,” notes Sage, who first met Kinney when she arrived at the White House to help the Clinton administration’s Health Reform Task force with federal administrative law issues.
In addition to working with Clinton’s Task Force, Kinney has consulted for the Indiana Commission on Health Care for the Working Poor and was appointed by the governor to the Executive Board of the Indiana State Department of Health as well as other task forces and advisory boards.
Kinney’s expertise has led her to recently publish Protecting American Health Care Consumers and to edit the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals. She has also authored book chapters, book reviews and numerous articles in a variety of renowned journals, including ASLME’s Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME).
Beyond publishing in JLME, Kinney has been an avid supporter of ASLME. She has been a long-time member of the Society and has attended many ASLME conferences. She states, “I have found ASLME to be an invaluable facilitator for engaging with other colleagues in my research, scholarship and teaching.”
While this year’s conference was especially noteworthy to the award winner, Kinney says, “The Health Law Professor conference each year is not to be missed. It is the conference for health law teachers and a good time as well.”
Prior to joining Indiana University’s faculty, she worked as the assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association. She has also been a program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., worked as an estate planning officer for Duke University Medical Center, and practiced law at the firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Ohio. Kinney earned her B.A. and J.D. from Duke University, and she received her master’s degree in public health from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
