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Student Wins Borchard Fellowship for Education Project on Law and Aging Carrie S. Zoubul ’06 has won a fellowship from the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging which will provide an award of $36,000 for one year to develop an interdisciplinary educational project, “Educating for Professional Intersections in Law, Medicine & Advocacy.” The project was inspired by a forum, “Contemporary Challenges in Bioethics: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of End-of-Life Issues,” held at the Law School in spring 2005. Zoubul said the forum “modeled the dialogue between the three professions of law, medicine and health advocacy, which all serve the needs of elderly patients, but from very different perspectives.” Her project will explore how this dialogue and learning experience can become an educational model. She will focus on designing and developing a clinical educational program. The project will be undertaken jointly by Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science and Public Policy, the Divisions of Geriatrics and Medical Humanities at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and the Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Program in Health Advocacy. During Law School, Zoubul was an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellow and was also on the staff of the Journal of Law and Policy. She received the Samuel W. Rover and Lewis Rover Award for scholastic distinction in a course relating to medicine and the law. She interned at the Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, the New York State Attorney General’s Office in the Health Care Bureau, and the Division of Bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center. Zoubul spent the three years before law school studying and working in the field of bioethics. It made her keenly aware, she said, “of the complexities of our healthcare system and the challenges it presents to the most vulnerable individuals in our society, especially the elderly.” During graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, her interests began to center on patients’ welfare and rights, and the justice issues that pervade the healthcare system. She received her B.A. at the University of California at Los Angeles. For the project, Zoubul’s primary supervisor will be Alice Herb, J.D., LL.M, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Practice and Humanities in Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Professor Herb also teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in the Health Advocacy, Human Genetics, and Applied Research Ethics programs and mentors interns from Brooklyn Law School. Zoubul will also receive significant support from other professionals and educators from each school, including: Professor Karen Porter of the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy at the Law School; Marsha Hurst, Director of the Health Advocacy Program at Sarah Lawrence College; and Dr. Judith C. Ahronhiem, Chief of the Division of Geriatrics at SUNY Downstate.
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