Sarah Hooper, JD

Lawyer & Lecturer

San Francisco, California

United States, North America

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Cohort Year:

2018

Bio

Sarah Hooper is the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy and Lecturer in Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. She is also Policy Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors.

Since first joining the Consortium in 2009 as a Senior Legal Research Fellow, Sarah has dedicated her career to developing innovative medical-legal collaborations that can advance equity in health care. She has a special interest in complex care populations, and in particular how health and legal systems can respond to the aging of this population. Her work encompasses clinical interventions such as the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic, research collaborations such as the Dementia Care Ecosystem trial, and educational initiatives for providers and the public such as the Optimizing Aging Collaborative and PREPARE.

Sarah is the Faculty Advisor for the JD Concentration in Health Law & Policy at UC Hastings and teaches in the UCSF-UC Hastings Master of Science in Health Law & Policy program. Sarah received her BA in Law & Society with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a Regents Scholar and appointed member of the Associated Students Legislative Council and board member of the Shoreline Preservation Fund. She received her law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where she co-founded the Hastings Hurricane Relief Organization following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Professional Interests & Expertise

Community Organizing,Community Partnerships,Disability and Accessibility,Health Systems,Law,Leadership,Medicaid and Medicare,Outreach and Education,Policy/Advocacy,Public Policy

Organization

UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law

Equity Talk

Learn more about Sarah's work:

Commentary

Context, humility, and caution in guardianship determination

Podcast

Contraindicated

Journal Article

Use of Telephone- and Internet-Based Support to Elicit and Address Financial Abuse and Mismanagement in Dementia: Experiences from the Care Ecosystem Study

Journal Article

Improving Medical-Legal Advance Care Planning

Journal Article

The Medical-Leadership Partnership Model: A Focus on Older Adults and Social Determinants of Health

Journal Article

Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use

See All of Sarah's Work