Joan Foley - Interim Director of the Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy & Professor of Legal Process

Professor Joan C. Foley is Interim Director of the Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy and Professor of Legal Process at Touro Law. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Touro's New York Medical College School of Medicine.

Professor Foley teaches Health Care Law, Health Law II, Legal Process I, Legal Process II, Aging: Health, Law, and Policy, Legal and Ethics Issues in Medical Malpractice, and American Trial Courts – Federal. She co-created the interdisciplinary Legal and Ethics Issues in Medical Malpractice course, which enrolls law and medical students. Professor Foley also created and teaches in Aging: Health, Law, and Policy, an interdisciplinary asynchronous online course with modules taught by faculty from across the University. She writes and presents on health law, aging and the law, legal writing and lawyering skills, and legal education.

Before joining Touro Law, Professor Foley was a partner at Gordon Thomas Honeywell LLP in Seattle. She represented health care providers, institutional clients, plaintiffs, and defendants in state and federal courts in health care, environmental, tort, appellate, class action, and other complex litigation. She subsequently joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law, where she taught first-year and upper-division legal writing courses.

Professor Foley is a past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Aging and the Law and currently serves on its Executive Committee. She is a Board Member of the Federal Bar Association's Eastern District of New York Chapter. She is also a Steering Committee Member of the Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Project. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Touro Interdisciplinary Institute for Healthy Aging. Professor Foley is also a mediator.

Professor Foley received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A., with Honors, from Binghamton University.