Selected Presentations from the 2008 NASMHPD Legal Division Meeting

States Role in Serving Veterans      

Presenter:
Harold Kudler, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Duke University Medical Ctr., U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs;

Facilitator: 
Cynthia Clark Tyler, J.D., Director, Office of Legal Counsel, Tennessee Dept. of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities       

Patient Safety and Quality Assurance

Facilitator and Presenter:
Elizabeth Bentley Watson, J.D., Legal Counsel, Dept. of MHDD&AS, State of Georgia

CMS/HHS/DOJ Litigation   

Presenters:
Mal J. Harkins,III, J.D., Proskauer Rose LLP, Washington DC
James F. Segroves, J.D., Proskauer Rose, LLP, Washington DC

Facilitator: 
Courtney Tarver, J.D., General Counsel, Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation, State of Alabama