Tara Sklar
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Professor Tara Sklar is the Faculty Director of the Health Law & Policy Program and a Distinguished Public Service Scholar at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. She also serves as the Associate Director of Telehealth Law & Policy at the Arizona Telemedicine Program, College of Medicine-Tucson, and as a subject matter expert with the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers.
Professor Sklar’s teaching and legal scholarship bridge the gap between healthcare and law by aligning where the law can help mitigate health disparities and improve care for vulnerable populations. In particular, her work examines legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that arise in adapting to a diverse aging population, with a focus on digital health equity.
Her 20+ academic articles and book chapters are published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, amongst others, and in books with Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, and the American Public Health Association Press. She has appeared on Good Morning America, NPR’s Science Friday, PBS World, and the American Health Law Association, ‘Speaking of Health Law,’ podcast series. In addition to her legal scholarship, Professor’s Sklar’s commentary has been featured in a variety of news media outlets, including Axios, Bloomberg, FiveThirtyEight, Healthline, Law360, Mozilla, and The Verge, along with opinion pieces in The Conversation and Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health. Her forthcoming book, “Telehealth Law & Policy in a Nutshell,” is under contract with West Academic Publishing.
At Arizona Law, Professor Sklar launched and directs an online portfolio of over 35 Health Law & Policy courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and five certificate programs. She developed this curriculum in collaboration with faculty across seven University of Arizona colleges and with industry leaders at global companies. She teaches courses on Telehealth Law & Policy, Aging & the Law, and guest lectures throughout the University of Arizona Health Sciences Colleges, including Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.
Prior to her current role, Professor Sklar was the Founding Faculty Director of Aging Programs at the University of Melbourne where she established the first online Master of Aging degree by bridging nine colleges and creating an international Industry Network in Aging. She has worked for health systems and government entities, including Ascension Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Professor Sklar has received over four million dollars in grants and philanthropic gifts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, private donors, and funding awards at the University of Melbourne and the University of Arizona.
Representative Publications
Regulating Digital Health Care for the Cognitively Impaired, 19 J. of Health & Life Sci. L. 97 (2024) (with Kathryn Huber).
Digitally Enabled Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services, in Digital Health Care Outside of Traditional Clinical Settings, I. Glenn Cohen, Daniel B Kramer, Julia Adler-Milstein, & Carmel Shachar, eds., Cambridge University Press (2024) (with Kathryn Huber).
Immigrant Workers’ Voices as Catalysts for Reform in the Long-Term Care Industry, 55 Ariz. St. L. J. 3 (2023) (with Shefali Milczarek-Desai).
Addressing State-Based Barriers to Decentralized Clinical Trials, 7 J. of Clinical & Translational Sci. 162 (2023) (with Stephanie Zawada, Kevin Ruff, & Bart Demaerschalk).
The Research Exemption Carve Out: Understanding Research Participants Rights Under GDPR and U.S. Data Privacy Laws, 60 Jurimetrics 1 (2020) (with Mabel Crescioni).
Preparing to Age in Place: The Role of Medicaid Waivers in Elder Abuse Prevention, 28 Annals Health L. & Life Sci. 2 (2019) (with Rachel Zuraw).
Affordability Boards: The States’ New Fix for Drug Pricing, 381 New Engl. J. Med. 1301 (2019) (with Christopher Robertson).
Elderly Gun Ownership and the Wave of State Red Flag Laws: An Unintended Consequence That Could Help Many, 27 Elder L.J. 1 (2019).
Education
- J.D. University of Houston Law Center
2007 - M.P.H. University of Texas Health Sciences Center
2007 - B.A. Tulane University
2002
Graduated magna cum laude.
Work Experience
- Professor of Health Law and Director, Health Law & Policy Program
James E. Rogers College of Law
2019 - present - Professor of Health Law and Director of Graduate Health Sciences Programs
James E Rogers College of Law
2018 - 2019 - Fellow in Law and Public Health Group
School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
2016 - 2018 - Director of Aging Programs
School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
2013 - 2016 - Adjunct Associate Professor in Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University
2011 - 2013 - Director of Access and Community Health
Carondelet Health Network
2008 - 2010