Susan Bartlett Foote, J.D.

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

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

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

Research Interests:

Influences of public policies on health care services, with a particular emphasis on innovation in medical technology; administrative law and regulation; Medicare politics and policy

Recent 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

Contact

Mailing Address:
Health Policy and Management
420 Delaware St SE, MMC 729
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone (Work): (612) 626-2851

Email: foote003@umn.edu