Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M.

Professor Teitelbaum is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. He also serves as Managing Director of the School’s Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program.

In addition to his current courses, Professor Teitelbaum has taught courses in public health law, minority health policy, and long-term care law and policy. He is a 2009 recipient of the University-wide Bender Teaching Award, and he received an SPHHS Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008 for his graduate coursework. Also, in 2007 Professor Teitelbaum was inducted into the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He has authored or co-authored many articles, book chapters, policy papers, and reports on civil rights issues in health care, managed care law and policy, and behavioral health care quality, and he is the lead author of Essentials of Health Policy and Law (2007), an introductory textbook, and of Essential Readings in Health Policy and Law (2009), a companion to the textbook. He has directed or managed several health law and policy research projects, including ones sponsored by the District of Columbia Department of Health, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc., and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In addition, Professor Teitelbaum was co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern health care system. In his role as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Professor Teitelbaum provides comprehensive oversight and coordination of all the Department’s academic activities, including undergraduate and graduate degree programs, fellowship programs, faculty recruitment, curriculum development, faculty teaching development and classroom evaluation processes, and faculty and student support services. Professor Teitelbaum is heavily involved in GW service activities: Among other things, he has served as Chair of the Medical Center Faculty Senate’s Executive Committee; Chair of the SPHHS Curriculum Committee; Chair of the Department of Health Policy’s Curriculum Committee; Chair of the Department’s Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; Co-Chair of the committee that created and implemented GW’s undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in public health; and Chair of an SPHHS task force to develop a student anti-mistreatment policy. Professor Teitelbaum is a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Journalism), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991 Juris Doctor, Marquette University, 1996 Master of Laws (Health Law), The George Washington University School of Law, 1998

Research

Professor Teitelbaum’s research interests include health care law, health care and civil rights, public health law, law and medicine/bioethics, health care quality and health disparities.

Community Service

Professor Teitelbaum serves on the Board of Advisors for Project HEALTH D.C., part of a national student organization addressing socioeconomic, medical, and environmental causes of poor health in low-income children. He has also served on the Board of Directors of DePaul University College of Law’s Center for the Study of Race and Bioethics, which identified health care access barriers among minority populations and shaped public policy to help eliminate those barriers, and on the Council of Advisors for Physician-Parent Caregivers, Inc., which facilitates communication and collaboration between caregivers and parents of children with special health care needs.