Talk Justice: Episode Forty-One

Guest Speakers

Vicki W. Girard is the Founding Co-Director of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance and a Professor of Law, Legal Practice. The Health Justice Alliance is a cross-campus collaborative engaging in research, service, and academic efforts focused on training the next generation of attorneys, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals to work together to improve social determinants of health for marginalized communities. Professor Girard works closely with Georgetown University Medical Center and its partners at MedStar Health as they seek innovative ways to help patients with health-harming legal needs.

Professor Girard is a magna cum laude graduate of the Law Center. Prior to joining the faculty to teach in the first year legal writing program, she worked at several D.C. firms where she developed a specialty in food and drug law. Her interest in the intersections between law and medicine eventually led her to the medical-legal partnership (MLP) model of healthcare, which adds lawyers to the healthcare treatment team to address legal issues that contribute to health disparities at the individual, systems, and policy levels. Her passion for health justice and desire to contribute to the national MLP movement precipitated her efforts to bring this innovative service and learning approach to Georgetown.

Dr. Eileen S. Moore, MD is the Medical Director for the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance, Associate Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine, and Associate Dean for Community Education and Advocacy at the School of Medicine. In these roles Eileen brings a keen interest in progressive medical education and passion for access to care and quality of care for underserved and vulnerable populations. Since 2007, she has served as the Medical Director for the Health Outreach to Youth and Adults (HOYA) Clinic, the first student-run free clinic in Washington D.C.; she also directs the Health Justice Scholar (HJS) Track at the School of Medicine (a longitudinal four-year curriculum that gives medical students didactic and practical experience working at the intersection of advocacy and policy toward the achievement of health equity).Eileen received her MD from Georgetown where she also completed a fellowship in Primary Care and Health Policy . She has been on the faculty at the School of Medicine since that time and also maintains a robust clinical practice in General Internal Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

Dr. Ana M. Caskin, MD is the Health Justice Alliance’s Deputy Medical Director and also serves as the Associate Medical Director for Community Pediatrics at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital and as Medical Director of the School Health Center at Anacostia Senior High School. For over 20-years, she has worked with a wide range of pediatric populations across the Washington DC area, including privately insured patients, Medicaid patients, undocumented children and children with special needs. She has been committed to ensuring that all children have access to the best and most comprehensive medical care in their own neighborhoods. In that work she has explored non-traditional delivery models such as mobile medicine and school-based healthcare. Ana is a native Washingtonian and earned her BA and MD from University of Virginia. She trained as a resident in pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital.

Host 

Ronald S. Flagg was appointed President of Legal Services Corporation effective February 20, 2020, and previously served as Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel since 2013. He previously practiced commercial and administrative litigation at Sidley Austin LLP for 31 years, 27 years as a partner. He chaired the firm's Committee on Pro Bono and Public Interest Law for more than a decade. 

Flagg served as president of the District of Columbia Bar in 2010-2011 and currently serves as Chair of the Bar's Pro Bono Task Force and on the Board of the DC Bar Foundation. He previously also services as Chair of the Board of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, Chair of the District of Columbia Bar Pro Bono Center, Chair of the Board of the AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly, and as a member of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates, the Board of the Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission. 

Flagg graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and cum laude from Harvard Law School. He began his career as a law clerk to Judge Myron L. Gordon, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Wisconsin and as attorney-advisor in the United States Department of Justice, Office of Intelligence Policy.