By Justin Silverman

Professor Marc Rodwin is hosting a luncheon with journalist Trudy Lieberman at noon on Wednesday in the Suffolk University Law School Function Room. She will be discussing the current state of health care policy as well as its media coverage. Those interested in attending the event, which features a complimentary lunch, can reserve a seat by emailing lparker@suffolk.edu. Professor Rodwin is also inviting any MCLS member to meet Lieberman personally after the event. If you are interested in doing so, please email me at president@suffolkmedialaw.com.

Lieberman

Lieberman

Lieberman, a journalist for 40 years, is the director of the health and medical reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York. Most recently she was director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union. She is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, a contributor to The Nation, and has written a column about health and the marketplace for the Los Angeles Times. She also blogged on the coverage of health care during the presidential campaign for the Columbia Journalism Review.

She began her career as a consumer writer for the Detroit Free Press where her reporting became a model for consumer writers across the country. She has won numerous honors and awards including two National Magazine Awards, 10 National Press Club Awards, five Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards, a Fulbright Fellowship to study health care in Japan, a John J. McCloy Fellowship to study health care in Germany, a Joan Shorenstein Fellowship from Harvard University to study media coverage of medical technology, and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Nebraska. Lieberman is the author of five books including Slanting the Story: The Forces That Shape the News and the Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors, which was named one of the best consumer health books for 2000 by Library Journal. She is working on another book about health care in America.

Lieberman has taught media ethics in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, and was a Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in 2006 where she has taught courses on media ethics and the ethics of health care delivery. She was appointed the James H. Ottaway journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz where she taught a course on the media and the marketplace. She is president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. She has served on the board of directors for the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Medicare Rights Center and is a member of the California Health Benefits Review Program.