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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —World-renowned global and public health law scholar Lawrence O. Gostin will deliver the annual John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine on Monday, Feb. 3 at 12 p.m. in the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom at the West Virginia University College of Law. Admission is free and the event is open to the public.

Gostin’s lecture at WVU will focus on social justice issues within global health and what it will take to identify and implement a unified vision for reform. 

Gostin directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, where he is the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He is Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at both institutions.

A key contributor to major U.S. and international health law reform initiatives, Gostin is also the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. He has brought several landmark cases before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights.

The John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine was established through the generosity of Thomas S. Clark, M.D., and Jean Clark. The Clark Family Lecture Series, funded by a half-million dollar pledge in 1998, provides lectures in 10 fields of study throughout West Virginia University. A member of the faculty since 1968, Fisher is the William J. Maier, Jr. Dean Emeritus and the Robert M. Steptoe and James D. Steptoe Professor of Property Law.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Jackson Kelly PLLC recently promoted WVU College of Law graduates Christina T. Brumley, Alaina N. Crislip, Seth P. Hayes, and Kevin R. Waldo to membership status effective Jan. 1, 2014.

Brumley’s practice focuses on acquisitions and divestitures, commercial transactions, and mineral and property rights issues. Her experience includes commercial litigation, including contract and property rights disputes, business torts and shareholder litigation. Brumley has also advised clients on communications law, representing broadcasters in matters before the FCC and advising them in defamation and advertising law. She received her B.S. in business administration from WVU’s College of Business and Economics in 1993 _summa cum laude _and her JD from the WVU College of Law in 1998.

Crislip represents a variety of health care provider organizations, including hospitals and physicians. She routinely advises clients in matters involving health care regulations and litigation, with an emphasis on compliance advice to providers under HIPAA, Stark, Anti Kickback, and other state and federal laws. Crislip earned her JD from the WVU College of Law in 2003.

Hayes practices in Jackson Kelly’s Industrial, Environmental and Complex Litigation Practice Group in the Morgantown, W.Va., office. Prior to starting at Jackson Kelly, Hayes clerked for the Honorable David A. Faber of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. He earned his JD (Order of the Coif) from the WVU College of Law in 2006. He also hold a B.S. in finance and a B.A. in foreign languages from WVU.