Commitment to Diversity
In principle and in practice, the American Health Lawyers Association
values and seeks diverse and inclusive participation within the
Association regardless of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation,
national origin, or disability. The Association welcomes all members as
it leads health law to excellence through education, information and
dialogue.
AHLA Diversity Mentoring Pilot Program
The American Health Lawyers Association's Advisory Council on Racial and
Ethnic Diversity has launched a diversity
mentoring pilot program. This program builds on the Association's
commitment to create a collegial community for both senior and newer
members and to meet members' needs for networking and relationship
building. Mentoring programs provide an important mechanism for
networking and can be a long-term strategy for cultivating the next
generation of leadership. By their very nature, such programs can be
mutual mentoring experiences — with both the mentor and the mentee
learning from one another. AHLA's diversity mentoring pilot program
demonstrates the value AHLA places on increasing the diversity of our
membership and leadership. Members interested in and committed to
advancing this diversity initiative are encouraged to serve as mentors
and members of diverse backgrounds are being invited to participate as
mentees. We hope you will consider participating.
Diversity Summer Internship
As part of the American Health Lawyers Association's initiative to
cultivate more racial and ethnic diversity among attorneys practicing
health law, the organization is working to provide opportunities for
talented law students of racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds so
that they can learn more about this segment of the legal profession. To
this end, AHLA's Advisory Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity and
AHLA Professional Resources sponsored its first Diversity Summer
Internship this past summer. The program provides a first or second-year
law student with an eight week internship at AHLA's office in
Washington, DC where he/she performs various writing and research duties
to support publishing and Public Interest activities.
For a full description of the internship click
here.
Advisory Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity
David E.
Matyas (co-Chair)
Epstein Becker & Green PC
Myra C.
Selby (co-Chair)
Ice Miller
David Cade
Deputy General Counsel
US Department of Health and Human Services
Gregory M. Duckett
Senior Vice President and Corporate Counsel
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Maria E. Gonzalez-Knavel
Foley & Lardner LLP
Gregory C. Ewing
Sutter Health
Elizabeth Carder-Thompson
(President Elect Designate, ex officio)
Reed Smith LLP
Renee M. Landers
Suffolk University Law School
Cynthia F. Reaves
Deloitte Services LP
Terri-Lynne B. Smiles
Collis Smiles & Collis LLC
Health Lawyers News Diversity Columns
September
2007
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2007
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December 2007
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May 2008
June 2008
Related Files
Diversity Internship Description (PDF File)
Diversity Mentoring Program (PDF File)
September 2007 (PDF File)
October 2007 (PDF File)
November 2007 (PDF File)
December 2007 (PDF File)
January 2008 (PDF File)
February 2008 (PDF File)
March 2008 (PDF File)
April 2008 (PDF File)
May 2008 (PDF File)
June 2008 (PDF File)
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