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United States Patent and Trademark Office Bar : Patent Attorney (Since 2001)

State Bar of Georgia : Member (Since 2001)

The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition - Executive Editor

UCSF/UCH Consortium on Law  Science and Health Policy - Co-Director for UC Hastings (Since 2015)

UCSF/UC Hastings Health Policy and Law Masters Program - Co-Director and Co-Founder

Whole-Genome Screening of Newborns? The Constitutional Boundaries of Newborn Screening Programs

State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations

Clarifying Costs: Can Increased Price Transparency Reduce Healthcare Spending? 

Best Ethical Practices for Clinicians and Laboratories in the Provision of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing

Group Health's participation in a shared decision-making demonstration yielded lessons, such as role of culture change.

Professor Jaime S. King is the Associate Dean and Faculty Director (UCH) of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Science, Law and Health Policy, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Masters Program in Health Policy and Law, the Executive Editor of The Source for Healthcare Price and Competition, and the Director of the Concentration on Law and Health Sciences.

Professor King’s research examines some of the most complex challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system. An advocate for health reform, Professor King focuses on the drivers of healthcare costs, with a special interest in market consolidation and efforts to improve transparency in healthcare pricing.  These interests led her to found the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition, a multi-disciplinary web-based resource for information and analysis about healthcare price and competition. In 2015, she testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law on issues surrounding health insurance mergers. Professor King is the 2015 recipient of the Hastings Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship.

Professor King’s scholarship also examines questions of individual autonomy and the states’ police power. Specifically, she focuses on medical decision making and constitutional and regulatory questions regarding reproductive genetic testing.  

Prior to joining the faculty at UC Hastings, she served as a Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School (2006-2008) and the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (2005-2006). In 2012, she was named the John “Jack” Wennberg Fellow for the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation.

Professor King’s work has been published in Nature, Health Affairs, the UCLA Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Prenatal Diagnosis, Human Reproduction,  the William and Mary Policy Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and the Hastings Womens’ Law Journal. Her work has also been referenced in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and Slate Magazine.

Health Law and Policy

The U.S. Healthcare System

Genetics and the Law

Healthcare Antitrust

Health Policy & Reform

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Law Review Articles on SSRN

The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition

To Catch a Killer Gene: Sisters Race to Stop Mystery Disease

State Oversight of Vertical Integration in Health Care

State Options for Regulating Vertical Integration in Health Care

State Enforcement Options for Vertical Health Care Integration

Transparency in Health Care Cost and Quality

Healthy Competition? An Examination of the Proposed Health Insurance Mergers and the Consequent Impact on Competition

Sequencing Newborn Blood Spot DNA to Improve and Expand Newborn Screening

Legal Barriers to Transparency in Healthcare Prices

Recording Medical Visits of People with Breast Cancer

Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Bion M. Gregory Chair in Business Law

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