Curriculum Vitae - Hastings College of the Law

University of California
Hastings College of the law
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Joanna K. Weinberg
Senior Lecturer In Law
UC Hastings College of the Law
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-565-4694
Weinberg@uchastings.edu
Associate Adjunct Professor of Law, Policy and Ethics
Integrating Medicine and Public Health Program and Institute for Health and Aging
UC San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94118
Joanna.weinberg@ucsf.edu
EDUCATION:
Brandeis University, AB, Sociology (Hon)(Cum Laude), 1968
Harvard Law School, J.D., Law (Cum Laude), 1972
Columbia Law School, (postdoc) LLM, Jurisprudence, 1980
UCSF- Fellowship in Health Policy Research – Certificate, 1994
LICENSES, CERTIFICATION:
Member, Bar, US Supreme Court
PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD:
2008-Present
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
1987-2008 Adjunct Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
2003-2006 Assistant Co-Director and Core Faculty, Postdoctoral Program in Health
Policy, IHPS/IHA, University of California, San Francisco
1999-2003 Curriculum Coordinator and Core Faculty, Postdoctoral Program in Health
Policy, IHPS/IHA, University of California, San Francisco
1994-present
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences/ Institute for Health and Aging,
UCSF/ Associate Adjunct Professor (Law, Ethics and Policy)
1992-1994 Pew/NIA Fellow, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San
Francisco
1991-1992 Visiting Scholar, Murray Center for Research on People, Radcliffe College,
Harvard University
1987-1991 University of California, Berkeley:
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society,
Adjunct Professor, Department of Legal Studies
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy

1981-1987 Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Law, Graduate School of Social
Work and Social Research and Social Policy Program, Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, Pa
1978-1981 Teaching/Research Associate/Postdoc, Columbia Law School

OTHER POSITIONS HELD CONCURRENTLY:
1997-present
Visiting Scholar, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
(formerly the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of
Medicine), London, UK
February 2003; July 2000; July 1998; March 1997
1996-1998 California Medical Review, Inc., Physician Review Organization, Health Care
Finance Administration: Consultant: Consumer Complaints in Medicare;
Medicare Beneficiary Mediation Project
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Memberships
2008-present American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics
1980-present Law and Society Association
1990-present American Public Health Association (APHA)
2000-present American Association for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
2000-2005 Bioethics Summer Institute
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2004-2009 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting - panel chair, commentator
2002 Bioethics Summer Institute - conference committee, annual meeting
2002-present APHA: Ethics Forum (Planning Committee – 2003), Health Law Forum
2000-present ASBH, Law and Bioethics Affinity Group, Affinity Group Selection Committee
(2003-present), Task Force on Access to Health Care (2003)
CONSULTATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
INTERNATIONAL
2007 Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Presentation, Working Paper:
Cell Cultures and Institutional Cultures-- Policy Development in the California
Research and Cures Initiative, Berlin, GD
2002 Moot Court Judge, Tulane law School Summer Symposium (with Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsberg), Siena, Italy
2000 Conference Organizer, “Health & Risk”, 3rd Biannual International Conference, St
Catherine’s College, Oxford, Oxford University, UK
1999, 2002 Symposia, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL (formerly the
Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine), London, UK
2000 Presenter, Conference on Health & Risk, Oxford University, UK: Health and Risk II,
2 nd Biannual International Conference, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
NATIONAL
2008 Public Policy Analysis of Stem Cell institutions: The California instotute
for Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Conference, Cambridge Healthcare
Institute, 15 th Annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, San Francisco;
2006 UCSF-UC Berkeley, Conference, Ethical Worlds of Stem Cell Research,
September, Co-Organizer and Keynote Convener

2006 UC Berkeley, Conference, California’s Stem Cell Initiative: Confronting
the Legal and Policy Challenges, ”The California Research and Cures
Initiative: Framing the Role of Public Stakeholders”
2006 Touro University, Mare Island, CA, Lecture, Ethical Oversight of
Scientific Research
2006 American Public Health Association:
• Assessment of local government capacity to access and assist special
needs populations in a public health emergency;
• Public health worker training needs for bioterror and emergency
preparedness
2006 Jewish Bioethics Coalition, The Talmud, The Constitution and the
Morality of Stem Cell Research
2005 Concept Paper, Ethical Issues in Oversight of Stem Cell Research, prepared for Center
on Genetics and Society, Oakland, CA
2005 American Association for Bioethics and Humanities, Current Issues in
Drug Safety and Regulation, November
2005 Medicine, Money and Morals: the Jewish obligation to heal confronts
healthcare economics, methodologies for discourse in Jewish bioethics
2005 UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Confidentiality & Privacy in
Health Care: Feb.
2004 Ethical Wills, Advance Directives and Life Stories, Jewish Community
Workgroup (with A. Swidler, L. Blackman)
2004 American Public Health Association (November 6-10, 2004): Affirmative
Action and Health Disparities: Implications for Health Policy; The
Evolving Roles of IRB Culture: Human Subject Protection and Research
Integrity
2004 American Public Health Association (November 6-10, 2004):
• Abstract #86505: Affirmative Action and Health Disparities: Implications for
Health Policy;
• Abstract #86274: Incident Reporting Systems: Implications of State Legislative
Responses;
• Abstract #86489: Evolving Roles of IRB Culture: Subject Protection and
Research Integrity
2004 Invited Participant, 10 th Annual Conference on Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics,
Snowmass Colorado, Presentation - Defining Responses to Academic/Research
Misconduct: Designing a Decision Tree
2004 Presenter, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Paper: Affirmative Action
and Health Disparities
2002 Invited Faculty, 2 nd Conference on Jewish Bioethics, Jewish Theological Seminary,
New York, New York
2002 Bioethics Summer Symposium (Defining and Naming: Differing Perspectives About
Medical Error)
2000 Invited Participant, AHRQ Curriculum Conference, Health Services Research, St.
Louis, Mo., March 2001
2000 Annual Meeting, American Public Health Assoc., (# 4033: Ethical issues facing
health care organizations; # 5040: HIV and aging: policy perspectives on health care)

2000 Invited Presenter and Organizer: Error in Medicine: A Complex Sorrow, UC
Berkeley, Truth and Consequences: Moving Patients from the Periphery to the Center
(co-authors Weinberg, J., Shultz, M., Crawley, L).
GOVERNMENT and OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
2008-present Member, Institutional Review Board, University of California, San Francisco
2006-2007 Member, Bioethics Committee, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center,
San Francisco, CA
2004 Panel Reviewer, Initiative on Patient-Centered Communication for Vulnerable
Populations, American Medical Association, The Ethical Force Program, Creating
Performance Measures for Ethics in Health Care
2004 Consultant, Mothers’ Living Stories Project (Ethical Wills for mothers living with
cancer)
2003 Consultant, Little Hoover Commission, California (Elder Abuse)
2002 Grant Reviewer, Patient Safety Panel, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research
2001-2003 Consultant, California Senate Office of Research (Elder Abuse)
2001-2002 Consultant, California State Library, and Health Care Options Project
2001 Association for Health Care Research and Quality, Patient Safety Study Section
Member
2001-2005 Founding Board Member, Northern California Association on HIV over Fifty, San
Francisco (NCAHOF); Moderator, Advocacy Panel (2001)
2001-pres Co-investigator, UCSF PI and Steering Committee Member, SAFER California
Health Care
1999-pres Member, Ethics Committee, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, CA
1999-2001 Long Term Care Bioethics Consortium
1995-2000 NAHOF (National Association on HIV Over 50), Board of Directors.
2001-2004 Member, Bioethics Summer Symposium, Planning Committee, 2001
2000 Conference Organizer, Conf. on Health & Risk, Oxford University, UK
1998-2000 Invited Member, UCSF-UC Berkeley Working Group on Medical Mistakes
1998-2000 Invited Member, Working Group on Life and Death (End of Life Issues),
Berkeley/UCSF
1996-1998 California Medical Review, Inc., Physician Review Organization, Health Care
Finance Administration Consultant: Medicare Consumer Complaints