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> Disclosure Statement
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Faculty, Administration and Staff
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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 John V. Jacobi Faculty Director & Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy |
 Kathleen M. Boozang Associate Dean for Academic Advancement, Director, Center for Religiously Affiliated Nonprofit Corporations and Professor of Law |
 Carl H. Coleman Professor of Law and Academic Director of Division of Online Learning |
 Kate Greenwood Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law |
 Jordan Paradise Associate Professor of Law |
 Frank Pasquale Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care Regulation and Enforcement |
 Tara Adams Ragone Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law |
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Center Leadership And Staff
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 Simone Handler-Hutchinson Executive Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy |
 Helen Cummings Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs & Online Learning |
 Catherine V. Finizio Coordinator, The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law |
 Sara Simon Director, Healthcare Compliance Certification Program |
Simone Handler-Hutchinson, J.D.,
Executive Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy
Simone Handler-Hutchinson specializes in the legal, regulatory, and policy issues facing the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries.
As Executive Director of the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Ms. Handler-Hutchinson develops educational programs and events for various components of the health care industry and oversees the Center's research and scholarship.
Ms. Handler-Hutchinson received her B.A. in Economics from Emory University and 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 Brach Eichler’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. 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 Cummings, J.D.,
Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs & Online Learning
Assistant Dean Helen Cummings oversees the Law School's LL.M. and Master of Science in Jurisprudence (M.S.J.) graduate programs, the J.D. concentrations in health law and intellectual property law and the Online Graduate Certificate programs. 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.
Catherine V. Finizio
Coordinator, The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law
Sara Simon, J.D.,
Director, Healthcare Compliance Certification Program
As the Director of the HCCP, Ms. Simon is responsible for developing, expanding and enhancing the Program’s faculty and curriculum and ensuring that the curriculum is timely and meaningful 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 working within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Ms. Simon received her BA, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her JD from Seton Hall University School of Law. Prior to joining Seton Hall Law in her current position, she worked in private practice for such New Jersey law firms as Wilentz, Goldman and Spitzer, PC, Lowenstein Sandler, PC and Kalison McBride, Jackson and Murphy, PA where she specialized in counseling hospitals and other health care providers regarding various regulatory and compliance issues under both state and federal law. She also has experience in adoption law, where she has represented both adoptive and birth parents throughout the adoption process.