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32 THE TO URO LAWYER FALL 201 5 course as we did in the Spring of 2014 was easy and was an obvious choice. So was creating externship placements for students pursuing health law studies. Tom Maligno Executive Director of the Law Centers Public Advocacy Center the PAC stitched the course work of the curriculum together with the work of the Health Welfare Council of Long Island one of the PACs resident agencies. The result included both externships in 2014 and a model for future expansion into private and public placements alike. The rest was more a process of identifying possibilities than of implementing easy answers. Some examples Should there be a concentration in health law within the JD program Should there be in the much longer run a plan for an LL.M. Should the flavor of Touros health law studies be the Law Medicine model in place at many law schools or the Law and Public Health model followed by fewer schools but growing more rapidly Maybe a blend of both Which would better serve the profession and offer the greater career choices Which would be the better fit for the cooperating programs on Touros other campuses Within the Law Center itself what part of curricular growth should be in the form of dedicated new courses e.g. Public Health Law and what part might be developing novel healthcare-related modules in other selected courses e.g. the Affordable Care Act in the Insurance Law course professional licensure and discipline in Administrative Law the unique features of healthcare organizations in the Business Organizations course health policy issues in Appellate Advocacy and Legal Writing... Could joint degree programs JDMD or JDMPH work given Touros New York geography How about meaningful cross-listing of coursework Or maybe clinical teaching programs serving the area populations health and legal needs simultaneously Health- related problems often come that way. All of these possibilities and more are before the Faculty even now as it considers the possibilities the needs and the resources required to meet them. These are not new issues for the Law Center. While the process of curricular deliberation was encouraged and facilitated by the Gitenstein grant the grant was at least as much the result of the Law Centers ongoing attention to educational enhancements in Healthcare Law as it was the occasion for them. The Law Faculty already includes for example one senior member with both a J.D. and an M.D. Ted Silver two others with experience and teaching commitments in the field Desiriee Kennedy and Joan Foley the next two holders of the Gitenstein chair and a retinue of adjunct and associated teachers in specialized subjects such as Bioethics viz. Dr. Robert Cassidy Director of Bioethics and Social Policy at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Moving beyond the Law Centers Central Islip campus and into the wider world of Touro the second path for the semesters work was to consider how the synergy of the candy store so to speak might be explored. I should take a short digression here. Whatever it might look like from the outside the work of innovation at universities is done in very flat hierarchies. Deans and Presidents have essential roles but limited ways of directing the academic evolution of their campuses. Ideas coming from the faculty and presented for approval and support generally have more successful lifetimes than do ideas developed by executives and directed from above. I have learned this fact of academic life as both a long-time faculty member and as an occasional academic administrator. Without getting into exactly how I learned this suffice it to say that good judgment comes from bad experience which in turn comes from having exercised bad judgment. The point is that successful innovations are more likely to be those that grow from members of the faculty themselves exploring interactions and common interests and as much by way of serendipity as plan weaving new multi-colored fabrics for programs in teaching or research or service or all of those. That serendipity may be easier to achieve on a single campus than it is at a multi-campus institution but its not impossible by any means. One way to do it is One of the events was a webinar. Rather than showcasing only the incumbent of the Chair as most such named lectureships do this one engaged law faculty medical faculty lawyers doctors and representatives of patients in a joint focus on the effects of medical liability law for patient safety and healthcare quality.