David Orentlicher, professor at Indiana University School of Law, will present “Controlling Health Care Costs through Agency Oversight: The Conflict Between the Morally Right and the Socially Feasible” on Friday, March 4 at 12:30 p.m. at the UM School of Law’s Faculty Conference Room. RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected].

In addition to his positions at the Indiana law school, David Orentlicher is an adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Before coming to IU, he served as director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association for six and a half years. While there, he led the drafting of the AMA’s first patients’ bill of rights, guidelines for physician investment in health care facilities that were incorporated into federal law, and guidelines on gifts to physicians from industry that have become the industry standard and a standard recognized by the federal government. He helped develop many other positions—on end-of-life matters, organ transplantation, and reproductive issues—that have been cited by courts and government agencies in their decision-making. He has also held adjunct appointments at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University Medical School.

He has published Matters of Life and Death with Princeton University Press and is co-author of the casebook Health Care Law and Ethics, now in its seventh edition. He also has written widely in leading legal and medical journals on critical issues in medical ethics.