Professor Alexander Capron will be named to the newly established Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics during a ceremony Thursday, Feb. 15, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Town and Gown.
Capron is the inaugural holder of the chair endowed by QueensCare, a leading provider of healthcare to low-income families in Los Angeles with s
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The chair installation ceremony is open to all USC Law faculty, staff and students. Seats are still available; RSVP to the USC Law Events Office.
QueensCare established the chair with a $1.5 million gift to the law school. The faith-based organization is committed to providing compassionate, accessible and affordable healthcare based on the tradition established by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart in the early 1900s.Founded by USC Law graduate Joseph Brandlin ’38, QueensCare for nearly a decade has supported the interdisciplinary research-based USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics.
Professor Capron is a globally-recognized expert in health policy and medical ethics. He joined the USC Law faculty in 1985 and currently teaches at the law school and the school of medicine and co-directs the USC Pacific Center. In 1991, he was named a University Professor at USC, one of the university’s highest academic distinctions.From 2000 to 2006, Professor Capron served as director of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law at the World Health Organization in Geneva.
A graduate of Swarthmore College, he received an LL.B. from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He has served on numerous advisory commissions and boards; in 1996, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where he served for five years.
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