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JESSICA L. MANTEL

Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute
Professor of Law and George A. Butler Legal Research Professor
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
J.D., M.P.P., University of Michigan Law School
Jessica L. Mantel is a Co-Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute, Professor of Law, and George A. Butler Legal Research
Professor. Her research interests include the impact of legislative and regulatory schemes on emerging trends in the health care
delivery system, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and the allocation of limited health care resources. Her most recent
work has focused on how payment reforms impact the physician-patient relationship and cross-sector collaborations to address
the social determinants of health. Prior to joining the University of Houston Law Center in 2010, Professor Mantel served as a
senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While in government,
Professor Mantel worked on a range of Medicare matters, including advising the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on
implementation of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, inpatient hospital payments, and incentive payments for providers
adopting electronic health records. Previously, she was a health analyst at the Government Accountability Office and was an associate
in the health care practice at Ropes & Gray.

VALERIE GUTMANN KOCH
Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute
Assistant Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton University
J.D., Harvard Law School

Valerie Gutmann Koch is a Co-Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute. She also serves as the Director of Law & Ethics at the
University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Previously, she was the Jaharis Faculty Fellow at DePaul University
College of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Koch was the Special Advisor and
Senior Attorney to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, the state’s bioethics commission, where she crafted policy
and guidance related to pandemic preparedness and crisis standards of care, human subjects research, and surrogate decision-making.
Following law school, she practiced intellectual property litigation at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

As a scholar of bioethics, public policy, and health law, Professor Koch concentrates on how medical and technological advances have
informed and sometimes transformed various areas of law, identifying ways in which law and policy is – or is not – equipped to
address changes in technology and practice. In 2022, she was named a Health Law Scholar by the American Society of Law, Medicine
and Ethics and the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University. She earned her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School,
where she was the co-editor of the recent developments section of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. She graduated magna cum
laude from Princeton University with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, with a focus in bioethics.

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