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Sharona Hoffman is a Professor of Law with a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioethics. She is also the Law School’s Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center. Professor Hoffman received her B.A. magna cum laude from Wellesley College and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. In addition, she earned an LL.M. in health law from the University of Houston.
Ms. Hoffman joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve in 1999. Earlier in her career, she clerked for a federal district court judge, worked as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers, a large Los Angeles law firm, and served as a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Houston office.
Professor Hoffman teaches Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Religion, Ethics, and the Law seminar, Health Care and Human Rights seminar, and Health Matrix Notes Seminar. In 2007 Professor Hoffman spent four months as a guest researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working on liability and immunity issues related to public health emergencies. Professor Hoffman has also been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for CDC’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response during 2008-2012. She has published over forty articles, most of which focus on health law and civil rights law. Her research interests include disability discrimination, biomedical research, health care coverage, race and medicine, health information technology, and emergency preparedness.
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“Finding a Cure: The Case for Regulation and Oversight of Electronic Health Record Systems” 22 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2009).
“Responders’ Responsibility: Liability and Immunity in Public Health Emergencies,” 96 Georgetown Law Journal 1913 (2008)
“Settling the Matter: Does Title I of the ADA Work?” 59 Alabama Law Review 305 (2008)
“Securing the HIPAA Security Rule,” 10 Journal of Internet Law 1 (February 2007) (with Andy Podgurski)
“In Sickness, Health, and Cyberspace: Protecting the Security of Electronic Private Health Information,” 48 Boston College Law Review 331 (2007) (with Andy Podgurski)
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“Is There Privacy in the American Workplace?” Twenty Fifth Annual Carl A. Warns Jr. Labor & Employment Law Institute, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, May 29, 2008
Panelist, “Liability Constraints, Concerns, and Unknowns,” Medical Countermeasures Dispensing: Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Institute of Medicine, March 4, 2008, Washington, DC
“Protecting Data, Protecting Privacy?” Joint Program of Sections on Defamation and Privacy, and Law and Computers, Association of American Law Schools, January 4, 2008, New York, New York.
Panelist, “Back to the Future? The Re-emergence of a Biological Conceptualization of Race,” Toward a Transformative Agenda around Race Conference, Ohio State University, December 2, 2007, Columbus, Ohio
“Finding a Cure: The Case for Regulation and Oversight of Electronic Health Record Systems,”
Health Law Professors Conference, June 7, 2008, Philadelphia, PA
“Public Health Law and Ethics: Liability and Immunity,” AMA/CDC Second National Congress on Health system Readiness, July 19, 2007, Washington D.C.
Served on Institute of Medicine Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for the Public Health System, which was responsible for identifying short-term (3-5 year) research priorities for public health schools, December 2007.
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