Phone: (206) 685-4245
Email: sanfords@u.washington.edu
B.A. 1986 Brown University J.D. 1991 University of California, Los Angeles
Health Care Law 鈥 Affordable Care Act 鈥 Public Health Law 鈥 Global Health 鈥 Bioethics
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Fundamentals Of Health Law |
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Sallie Thieme Sanford, JD. is an Associate Professor at the 红桃视频, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Population Health. She received her B.A. with honors from Brown University and her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Professor Sanford began her legal career as a law clerk for The Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She then served as an Assistant Attorney General representing the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and the UW鈥檚 health sciences schools.聽 Professor Sanford has been active on the board of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, including service as its president.
Professor Sanford鈥檚 research interests focus on Affordable Care Act implementation, healthcare delivery systems, health administration law, Medicare and Medicaid, comparative healthcare law, public health law, and medical and administrative ethics. Professor Sanford鈥檚 recent scholarship includes: The Law of Healthcare Administration (10th ed. 2023) (with J. Stuart Showalter); Health Reform and Higher Ed: Campuses as Harbingers of Medicaid Universality and Medicare Commonality, 47 J.L. Med. & Ethics, No. 4 Supp., Winter 2019, at 79-90; and Nobody Knew How Complicated:聽 Constraining the President鈥檚 Power to (Re)Shape Health Reform, 45 Am. J.L. & Med. 106-129 (2019).
Professor Sanford has published several short, accessible articles about the Affordable Care Act and the litigation surrounding it. In addition, she has conducted funded research into law and policy reforms in support of HIV reduction in the Global South.
