October 05, 2009
Social Justice Mondays: A Critical Look at Our Health Care System
12:00 p.m.
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12:50 p.m.
Location: Room C5
Lawyers and Doctors Partnering in the Struggle for Social Justice
Panelists include: Brian Johnston, M.D., Chief of Pediatrics at Harborview Medical Center; Benjamin Danielson, M.D., Medical Director of Odessa Brown Children's Clinic; and Scott Crain, J.D., staff attorney at the Northwest Justice Project in Seattle. Panelists will expose a critical perspective of our current health system and discuss an innovative partnership, the Medical Legal Partnership Clinic, in which doctors and lawyers work together to address the inequalities and disparitites of our current health care system. Students will learn how they can be involved in the Medical Legal Partnership Clinic. A pizza lunch will be provided.
For more information, please contact ATJI Program Assistant James Tan at tanj@seattleu.edu.
Social Justice Mondays is an organized, weekly series that aims to create a forum to bring awareness and encourage discussion about the many issues that surround the idea of "social justice" in order to help strengthen the social justice community of students, faculty and staff at the law school.
Please note that if you are unable to attend a Social Justice Mondays event, most events will be audio-recorded and available online.
Social Justice Mondays is brought to you by the Access to Justice Institute, the Social Justice Coalition, the Student Bar Association, and the Center for Global Justice.