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Garrard, Judith
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Grant, Leslie
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Susan Bartlett Foote.

Susan Bartlett Foote,
JD, MA

Professor and
Co-Director, MS-HSRP&A Program

J.D., Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1977

M.A., American & Latin American History, Case Western Reserve University, 1970

B.A., American & Latin American History, Case Western Reserve University, 1968

foote003@umn.edu

Office Phone: 612-626-2851

Susan Bartlett Foote is a Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management. She was division head from 1999-2005. Her research has focused on the influences of public policies on health care services, with a particular emphasis on innovation in medical technology. She is the author of Managing the Medical Arms Race: Innovation and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry as well as numerous articles on technology policy. Prior to her arrival at Minnesota in 1999, she was a professor of business and public policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1990-1994, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and Senior Legislative Analyst in the office of Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota. She was a consultant on health policy issues in Washington, D.C. from 1995-1999. She is Director of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum at the School of Public Health, and serves on the CMS’ Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee.

Teaches

Health services policy, medical device finance and policy

Selected Publications

Foote, S.B., & R.J. Berlin. (2005). “Can Regulation be as Innovative as Science and Technology? FDA’s Regulation of Combination Products,” Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 6(2):619-644.

Foote, S.B., R.. Halpern, & D. Wholey. (2005). “Variation in Medicare’s Local Coverage Policies: Content Analysis of Local Medical Review Policies,” American Journal of Managed Care 11(3):181-187.

Foote, S.B., & P.J. Neumann. (2005). “The Impact of Medicare Modernization on Coverage Policy: Recommendations for Reform,” American Journal of Managed Care 11(3):140-142.

Foote, S.B., D. Wholey, T. Rockwood, & R. Halpern (2004). "Resolving the Tug-of-War Between Medicare's National and Local Coverage," Health Affairs 23(4):108-123.

Foote, S.B., & L. Blewett (2003). "Politics of Prevention: Expanding Prevention Benefits in the Medicare Program," Journal of Public Health Policy 24(1):26-40.

Foote, S.B. (2003) “Focus on Locus: Evolution of Medicare’s Local Coverage Policy,” Health Affairs 22:137-146.

Foote, S.B. (2002). "Why Medicare Can't Promulgate a National Coverage Rule: A Case of Regula Mortis," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 27:707-730.

Foote, S.B., & D.F. Durenberger (2001). “Changing the Way We Think About Medical Technology Policy,” Annals of Thoracic Surgery 72:1113-1115.

Foote, S.B. (1992). Managing the Medical Arms Race: Innovation and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press.
 

Professional Experience

President, Public Policy Partners, Washington D.C., 1996-1999

Senior Health Policy Advisor, Office of Senator Dave Durenberger (R-MN), United States Senate, 1991-1995

Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-1992

Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-1988

Attorney, Consumers Union, West Coast Regional Office 1978-1981

Honors

Delta Omega, Honor Society for Public Health, Pi Chapter, 2003

Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow 1990-1991

Outstanding Teaching Award, Haas School of Business, 1983

Graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in History, 1968

 
 
 
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