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Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Kellye Y. Testy Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, Washington
Elizabeth Pendo is the Kellye Y. Testy Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the University of Washington School of Law, and a Senior Scholar at the UCSF/UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. Before joining the faculty at UW Law in 2023, Professor Pendo was a faculty member at Saint Louis University School of Law and its top-ranked Center for Health Law Studies (ranked #1 for 16 of the prior 17 years). Professor Pendo is an expert in disability law and theory, health law and policy, and bioethics and the law, and a specialist on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Affordable Care Act, disability health equity, and legal obligations of providers, institutions, insurers, and employers under anti-discrimination laws. She has published over 60 journal articles, books, and other publications, and is a co-author of a leading health law and bioethics and the law casebook, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, 9th ed. (West). She participates in policy advising with federal agencies and advocacy groups, and her work recently was cited by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in proposed and final federal regulations addressing discrimination in health care programs and activities. Professor Pendo was also commissioned as the lead author of a report on the role of law in promoting health and well-being for people with disabilities for the Healthy People 2020 Law and Health Policy Project, a partnership between the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the CDC, and the CDC Foundation funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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