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Kathy L. Cerminara, Professor of Law at the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, teaches The Law of Managed Health Care, Torts, Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, a Law and Medicine Seminar and other health-law-related courses. She also created, was the initial director of, and teaches in the online Master of Science in Health Law program for non-lawyers. Professor Cerminara's scholarship focuses on patients' rights in the managed health care system, as reflected in articles that have appeared in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, American Journal of Law & Medicine, Health Matrix, the Stetson Law Review, and Psychology, Public Policy & Law, the journal of the American Psychological Association. Additionally, beginning with her work during law school with Professor Alan Meisel at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Cerminara has been interested in and has written about the law governing medical treatment at the end of life. Beginning in the year 2000, continuing a collaboration that began with her serving as the initial research assistant on the book, she joined Professor Meisel as author of supplements of the treatise, The Right to Die (2d ed.). The collaboration has now resulted in the third edition of The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, co-authored by the two of them. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty, Professor Cerminara taught at St. Thomas University School of Law and the University of Miami School of Law, clerked in the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced law with Reed Smith Shaw & McClay in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has served on the State of Florida's Managed Care Ombudsman Committee for District 11, encompassing Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. She also chairs the Bioethics and Health Law Consortium of South Florida (formerly the South Florida Bioethics/Health Law Working Group), serves as a reviewer for publications such as Health Affairs and Psychology, Public Policy & Law, and acts as a faculty advisor for PULSE!, NSU's Health Law Students Society. Professor Cerminara received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh and her LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia University. She is an affiliate member of the Health Law and Elder Law Sections of The Florida Bar and a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and organizations such as the American Bar Association, the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the American Health Lawyers Association.
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