ASLME Welcomes New Board Members

Zack Buck is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law.

Zack’s most recent scholarship has focused on the corporatization of American medicine, the regulation of pharmaceutical drug prices and hospitals, and the intersection between health care finance and medical quality. 

He is the author of more than 15 law review articles and his work has been published or is forthcoming with the law reviews of California-Berkeley, North Carolina, William & Mary, Ohio State, Wake Forest, Boston College, and Florida State, among others. Zack has also been quoted in national outlets such as CNN, The New Yorker, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a contributor to the online journal, Jotwell.

Zack holds a BA in Political Science and Journalism from Miami University (OH), a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He has taught at Mercer University School of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and he formerly practiced complex commercial litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.

Gwyneth M. Eliasson is an Assistant Professor and the Health Policy Certificate Program Coordinator in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health (RSPH). Before joining the RSPH faculty, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health — SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. 

As a social justice attorney in New York City, she advocated for low-income clients navigating the healthcare system and represented them in both administrative proceedings and federal courts. She also worked at, researched, and consulted on medical-legal partnership (MLP) programs, including the development of an MLP in Camden, New Jersey. Her case study on MLPs for older adults is in HEALTHY AGING THROUGH THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (APHA Press, 2021).

Her JD is from Brooklyn Law School and her MPH in Health Systems and Policy is from RSPH. She is licensed to practice in New York. She also is a leader in the Law Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA), an Ambassador (1st cohort) for the Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC), and a Mentor with The Public Health Career Club.

Gregory Curfman, MD, is executive editor, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). He previously served as executive editor of NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). Dr. Curfman attended Princeton University (AB) and Harvard Medical School (MD). He was trained as a cardiologist and internist. Dr. Curfman’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of health law and constitutional law. He is currently researching the potential impact of the loss of affirmative action in university admissions on the composition of the physician workforce in the US.