The following University of California, Berkeley, experts are available to discuss various aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act.
ACA implementation
Stephen Shortell
Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, expert on health policy and management
Expertise: Health policy and management, health care delivery, implementation of the ACA
Phone: (510) 643-5346
Email:
Shortell@berkeley.edu
Media Relations contact: Sarah Yang, (510) 643-7741 or scyang@berkeley.edu. Note that Sarah Yang is away from the office until July 5. In her absence please call Kathleen Maclay, (510) 643-5651 or kmaclay@berkeley.edu.
Business
Kristiana Raube
Executive director of the Graduate Program in Health Management at the Haas School of Business
Expertise: Health care management, quality of care, health care financing and delivery
Phone: (510) 643-1399
Email:
raube@haas.berkeley.edu
Haas School Media Relations contact: Pamela Tom, (510) 642-2734 or ptom@haas.berkeley.edu
Health care economics
Brad DeLong
Professor of economics
Expertise: Economics, economic history, political economy and health care reform
Email:
delong@econ.berkeley.edu
Media Relations contact: Kathleen Maclay, (510) 643-5651 or kmaclay@berkeley.edu
Labor
Ken Jacobs
Chair of UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education
Expertise: Author or co-author of several studies assessing impact in California of the ACA’s implementation
Phone: (510) 643-2621 (office) or (cell) (415) 516-3135
Email:
Kjacobs9@berkeley.edu
Media Relations contact: Kathleen Maclay, (510) 643-5651 or kmaclay@berkeley.edu
Law
David Gamage
Assistant professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law
Expertise: Tax administration and policy. Gamage just completed two years working with the U.S. Treasury Department on tax provisions for the Affordable Care Act.
Phone: (510) 643-6116 (office) or (510) 852-9829 (cell)
Email:
gamage@law.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Law Media Relations contact: Susan Gluss, (510) 642-6936 (office) or (510) 705-3366 (cell) or sgluss@law.berkeley.edu
Ann O’Leary
Lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law
Expertise: Health care law
Phone: (415) 689-5747
Email:
Ann.oleary@tcng.org
Berkeley Law Media Relations contact: Susan Gluss, (510) 642-6936 (office) or (510) 705-3366 (cell) or sgluss@law.berkeley.edu
Politics
Terri Bimes
Lecturer in political science and author of a book on the American presidency
Expertise: National politics and the presidency. Bimes has written about presidential rhetoric, divided government and the 2000 presidential election.
Email:
bimes@berkeley.edu
Media Relations contact: Kathleen Maclay, (510) 643-5651 or kmaclay@berkeley.edu
Bruce Cain
Professor of political science, director of the UC Washington Center in Washington, D.C.
Expertise: State and local politics
Phone: (202) 974-6202
Email:
bruce@cain.berkeley.edu
Media Relations contact: Kathleen Maclay, (510) 643-5651 or kmaclay@berkeley.edu
Eric Schickler
Professor of political science
Expertise: Congress, American politics and political parties
Phone: (510) 643-2933
Email:
eschickler@berkeley.edu
Media Relations contact: Kathleen Maclay, (510) 643-5651 or kmaclay@berkeley.edu