Abbe R. Gluck
Faculty Director and Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
Abbe R. Gluck ’00 is the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She is also Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and a Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. From November 2020 to November 2023, she served as Special Counsel in the Office of White House Counsel, working with the administration’s COVID-19 Response team in the White House as well as on other issues, including the Affordable Care Act. Professor Gluck joined Yale Law School in 2012, having previously served on the faculty of Columbia Law School. She is an expert on Congress and the political process, federalism, civil procedure, and health law, and is chair of Section on Legislation and the Law of the Political Process for the Association of American Law Schools.
Gluck has extensive experience working as a lawyer in all levels of government. Prior to joining Columbia, she served in the administration of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine as the special counsel and senior advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General; and in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as chief of staff and counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, senior counsel in the New York City Office of Legal Counsel, and deputy special counsel to the New York City Charter Revision Commission. Prior to law school, she worked in the U.S. Senate for Senator Paul S. Sarbanes of Maryland. Before returning to government work after law school, Professor Gluck was associated with the Paul Weiss firm in New York. She earned her B.A. from Yale University, summa cum laude, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for then-Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Gluck’s scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and many other journals. Among her most recent work is the most extensive empirical study ever conducted about the realities of the congressional law-making process (published in the Stanford Law Review) and the Harvard Law Review’s Supreme Court issue comment on King v. Burwell, the 2015 challenge to the Affordable Care Act. She also served as co-counsel on a Supreme Court brief in both King and the 2012 ACA challenge, NFIB v. Sebelius. In 2015, Gluck was both appointed by Gov. Malloy to serve on the Uniform Law Commission and elected to the American Law Institute.
Shelli Feder
Assistant Professor in Nursing, Yale School of Nursing
Dr. Feder is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Nursing, Associate Program Director for the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and an investigator at the PRIME Center of Excellence at the West Haven, VA. She has over a decade of clinical experience as an advanced practice nurse in hospice, palliative care, and cardiovascular settings. Her research focuses on developing innovative care models aimed at enhancing access to high-quality, timely palliative and end-of-life care for individuals with cardiopulmonary conditions. Dr. Feder has secured funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R56HL166523; R34HL174885; R01HL172840), the Hartford Centers for Gerontological Nursing Excellence, the Palliative Care Research Cooperative, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Stacie Sinclair
Associate Director, Policy and Care Transformation, The Center to Advance Palliative Care
In her role as Associate Director, Policy and Care Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), Stacie Sinclair is dedicated to educating federal and state policy makers and key stakeholders on the value of palliative care; raising and standardizing the quality of palliative care delivery; and augmenting palliative care’s voice through coalitions and strategic partnerships. Ms. Sinclair served as Co-Chair of the Writing Workgroup for the National Consensus Project (NCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition and managed the efforts of the Serious Illness Quality Alignment Hub, a three-year project funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The latter convened palliative care experts and U.S. health care quality leaders to create requirements and incentives for palliative care access and adherence to standards.
Previously, Ms. Sinclair worked at Econometrica as the Implementation Project Manager for the Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Diseases (MIPCD) Technical Support project, a $3.8 million contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to test the effectiveness of incentives to promote healthy behavior change among Medicaid beneficiaries. She also provided evaluation support for the Community-Based Care Transitions Program (CCTP). Prior to Econometrica, Ms. Sinclair assisted with policy development and grants and for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Ms. Sinclair received both her MPP and her BA in Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Eugene Rusyn
Associate Research Scholar, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
A graduate of Yale Law School, Eugene Rusyn’s research interests include health law, environmental law, legal history, and the study of government bureaucracy.