Conference Agenda

Friday, April 11, 2025
 

Location: American University Washington College of Law

8:30-9:00  am ET Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15  am ET  Welcome Remarks

• Maya Manian, J.D.
Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Tracy Weitz, PhD
Director of the Center on Health, Risk and Society, Professor of Sociology, American University 

9:20-10:30 am ET  Panel 1: Youth Mental Health and Access to Care

Moderated by: Thomas Williams, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Yael Cannon, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

• Ana Caskin, M.D.
Deputy Medical Director, Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance

• Marisa Parrella, MSW
Founder and Executive Director of The MOMENTUM Residency

• Tomar Pierson-Brown, J.D.
Director of the Health Law Certificate Program; Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

10:30-10:45 am ET Break

10:45-11:55 am ET Panel 2: The U.S. Educational System and Social Determinants of Health for Youth

Moderated by: Angi Porter, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Nicole Pryor Tuchinda, J.D., M.D., LLM
Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Program, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

• Thalia Gonzalez, J.D.
Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, Co-Director of the Center for Racial and Economic Justice, University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco

• Rachel Perera, PhD
Fellow, Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

• James Huguley, Ed.D
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work

12:00-12:30 pm ET Lunch

12:30-12:40 pm ET Dean's Remarks and Introduction of Keynote

• Heather Hughes J.D.
Interim Dean, American University Washington College of Law

12:45-1:30  pm ET Lunch Keynote

• Rep. Arvind Venkat, M.D.
Pennsylvania State Representative; Emergency Physician

1:30-1:45  pm ET Break

1:45-2:55 pm ET  Panel 3: Advancing Access to Care for LGBTQ+ Youth 

Moderated by: Andrew Budzinski, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Harry Barbee, PhD
Assistant Professor, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Alejandra Caraballo, J.D., MPA
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School

• Carlos E Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD, MPHE, MCHES
Chair and Professor Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health

2:55-3:05 pm ET Break

3:05-4:15 pm ET  Panel 4: Adolescent Access to Reproductive Health Care post-Dobbs

Moderated by: Jamie Abrams, J.D.
Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

• Naomi Cahn, J.D.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law, Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law, Co-director of Family Law Center, University of Virginia School of Law

• Shanta Trivedi, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law

• Jamille Fields Allsbrook, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law

• Julie Maslowsky, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Nursing

• Joanna Grossman, J.D.
Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law

4:15-4:30 pm ET Closing remarks

• Asha Scielzo, J.D.
Director of the Health Law and Policy Program, Adjunct Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law