The Center draws upon the intellectual strength of the Seton Hall Law School faculty. Faculty members bring to the Center’s work nationally recognized expertise in pharmaceutical law, not-for-profit governance, intellectual property law and bioethics, among other areas.
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Center Faculty
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 Kathleen M. Boozang Associate Dean and Professor of Law |
 John V. Jacobi Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy |
 Carl H. Coleman Professor of Law |
 Frank Pasquale Loftus Professor of Law |
 Gaia Bernstein Professor of Law |
 Jordan Paradise Associate Professor of Law |
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Center Leadership And staff
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 Simone Handler-Hutchinson Executive Director, Global Healthcare Compliance & Ethics Education |
 Helen Cummings Administrator of Graduate Programs |
 Kate Greenwood Faculty Researcher |
 Valerie Gutmann Faculty Researcher |
 Jessica S. Kwon Director, Healthcare Compliance Certification Program and Faculty Fellow |
Simone Handler-Hutchinson, J.D.,
Executive Director, Global Healthcare Compliance & Ethics Education
Simone Handler-Hutchinson specializes in the legal, regulatory, and policy issues facing the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries.
As part of the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Ms. Handler-Hutchinson develops educational programs and events for various components of the health care industry. In 2008, the Center presented: “A Critical Analysis of Deferred Prosecution Agreements & Federal Monitors in the Health Care Industry: Are They Working,” and “Off-Label Promotion of FDA Approved Drugs & Devices: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.”
Ms. Handler-Hutchinson received her J.D. cum laude from Seton Hall Law School. After law school graduation, she served as law clerk to Judge Arthur D’Italia, Assignment Judge for the Superior Court of New Jersey. She began her health law career as an associate in WolfBlock’s health law practice group in Roseland, N.J. She then served as the Executive Editor at Brownstone Publishers in New York City which published several national legal newsletters including: Health Information Compliance Insider and Managed Care Contracting & Reimbursement Advisor. In 2004, Ms. Handler-Hutchinson joined the health law group of Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP in Morristown, N.J.
She has numerous publications to her credit, and has served as an adjunct professor, teaching various health law courses at Seton Hall Law. Ms. Handler-Hutchinson came to Seton Hall Law in 2007.
Helen A. Cummings, J.D.,
Administrator of Graduate Programs
Helen Cummings oversees the Law School's LL.M. and Master of Science in Jurisprudence (M.S.J.) graduate programs in addition to the J.D. concentrations in health law and intellectual property law. Ms. Cummings is an adjunct professor, teaching legal research and writing to M.S.J. students and co-teaching in the Law School's newly-launched Online Graduate Certificate in Health and Hospital Law.
Prior to joining Seton Hall Law School, Ms. Cummings was a managing partner in the law firm of Bross, Cummings & Perreira, L.L.C. in Newark, NJ, where she represented clients in corporate transactions, commercial litigation, and commercial real estate. Ms. Cummings earned her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law and her B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina.
Kate Greenwood, J.D.,
Faculty Researcher
Since joining the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy in 2008, Kate Greenwood has co-authored two white papers, prepared and disseminated a position paper in support of draft New Jersey legislation which, if passed, would legalize marijuana for medical use, and jointly planned and participated in the Center’s forum on conflicts of interest in clinical research recruitment and enrollment. Kate’s scholarly interests include prescription drug regulation and maternal and child health law and policy; she blogs on these topics at Health Reform Watch. Her article on legal and regulatory approaches to encouraging the evaluation of existing drugs to determine their safety and efficacy when used during pregnancy was selected for presentation at the 2009 St. Louis University Health Law Scholars Workshop.
Kate came to Seton Hall from Covington & Burling LLP, where she represented pharmaceutical companies in a variety of corporate, litigation, and white collar matters. Before joining Covington, Kate was an Equal Justice Works Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1999-2001, a law clerk to the Honorable Mary A. McLaughlin of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2001-2002, and a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from 2002-2003.
Kate graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an Articles Editor of The Georgetown Law Journal. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Swarthmore College.
Valerie Gutmann, J.D.,
Faculty Researcher
Valerie Gutmann joined Seton Hall Law School in 2009 as a Faculty Researcher in the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy. Her research and writing focus on legal and public policy issues related to institutional oversight of health care quality, conflicts of interest in clinical research recruitment and enrollment, drug pricing, and genetics and research. Her interests include the interface between health care, medicine, ethics and public policy.
Valerie came to Seton Hall from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she represented, among other clients, pharmaceutical companies in a variety of litigation and IP matters. Her experience included assorted patent infringement cases for both generic and branded pharmaceuticals, as well as various FDA-related matters. Prior to law school, Valerie worked at the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the ABA Coordinating Group on Bioethics & the Law.
Valerie Gutmann graduated from Harvard Law School, where she served as an author and Editor-in-Chief of the Recent Developments Section of the Journal on Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Her independent research focused on the legal and public policy issues arising from pharmacogenomics. She graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy at Princeton University, magna cum laude, in 2001, where she was co-president of the Princeton Bioethics Forum.
Jessica S. Kwon
Director, Healthcare Compliance Certification Program and Faculty Fellow
Jessica S. Kwon joined Seton Hall Law School in 2009 as the Director of Healthcare Compliance Certification Program (HCCP). As the Director of HCCP, Ms. Kwon is responsible for developing, expanding and enhancing the Program's curriculum and that it remains timely and meaninful to the Program participants. The HCCP, initiated in 2004 and offered twice each year, provides intensive compliance education and training to legal and compliance professionals in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. As a member of the Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy Center, Ms. Kwon also helps to develop educational programs and events that further the Center's purpose of exploring emerging issues and searching for concrete policy solutions in health, pharmaceutical and device law.
Ms. Kwon comes to Seton Hall Law directly from the Ethics and Compliance Department of Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., where as a consultant, she was in charge of internal investigations, company compliance policies, training, and compliance with State marketing disclosure and reporting laws. Prior to relocating back to New York in 2008, she spent over five years with Novartis at its global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland as Senior Corporate Counsel in the Global Litigation Department and then as an Officer of Global Pharma Compliance. At Novartis, she handled significant investigations, global litigation, risk management, and also as the Product Stewardship Officer, oversaw the global product safety risk management initiative managing an international, multi-disciplinary group charged with ensuring patient safety by the systematic and proactive review of safety data and labeling of all marketed products, ensuring global and multi-departmental alignment. She joined Novartis after numerous years in private practice in California and New Jersey. Jessica holds a B.A. in History with a minor in Business Administration from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.