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Practice Areas: health special education disability human rights civil rights discrimination reproductive health women

Additional Information: Ilise L. Feitshans, JD and ScM
120 Warwick Road, Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA 08033
856 428 0605 Email ilise@prodigy.net

EDUCATION: Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health,
Department of Health Policy and Management Sc.M 1996
Courses included: occupational medicine; epidemiology; industrial hygiene; environmental law; environmental health; legal and historical aspects of public health; health policy & management; biostatistics; bioethics; impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; health services research.

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 1983
HONOR: American Jurisprudence Award, Academic Excellence in Constitutional Law.
Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A. Cum Laude 1979
HONORS: Senior Scholars Honors Thesis, "Occupational Health from an International Perspective"

Author: DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE OSHA COMPLIANCE PROGRAM (West publishers and Westlaw. Com under treatises) since 1991, updated annually
Author, WALKING BACKWARDS TO UNDO PREJUDICE: REPORT OF THE US CAPITOL CONFERENCE INCLUDING DISABLED STUDENTS: WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN’T (Emalyn Press 2003); Author BRINGING HEALTH TO WORK (Emalyn Press)
Editor-in-Chief ABA Occupational Safety and Health 1995 Cumulative Supplement
and over 120 articles concerning law, health policy, public health and current events for physicians, lawyers and the general public.

Author and Lecturer, ADA: Is the Law the Same for EVERY Body? ACOEM Continuing Medical Education Materials LAW AND ETHICS OF OCCUPATIONA L AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE PROGRAMS (San Antonio 1999; Philadelphia 2000 and San Francisco 2001)

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Legislative Drafting Research Fund , Former Acting Director, 1994-95; Assistant Director 1990-94. Prepared course materials in legislation and taught seminars. Co-investigator in DOE/NIH grant for $300,000 regarding genetics and the law. Taught Legislative Development of the Law. Recruited and supervised Student Researchers. Drafted legislation at the request of public interest groups. Counsel, Brief Amicus Curiae, IUAW v. JOHNSON CONTROLS; wrote 2 books while teaching.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY : Occupational Safety and Health Law; Law of Health in the Workplace; Adjunct Faculty, 1996- 2002, NYSSILR Teaching on the web.
Concord University School of Law Master of Laws Program, Adjunct Faculty, Health Care Compliance; 2001-2002; RUTGERS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL AT UMDNJ International Health Law Summer 2000; The GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Washington D.C School of Public Health and Human Services, Adjunct Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health 1999 to present

Guest Lectures for : YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Sept 1999- June 2004
“Rethinking Our Values: Reproductive Health at Work ; Feb 2000: WORK HEALTH AND SURVIVAL:RETHINKING OUR VALUES; Oct 2000 Spider Silk Jeans or Spider Silk Genes: Genetic Testing in the Workplace; (Presentation published by New York Law School Journ. of HR, February 2002) “ADA: Is Health the Same for EVERY Body?” Feb 2002 “Occupational Physicians’ Ethical Obligations to Pregnant Workers: Filling the Void at The Interface Between Science and Compliance With Law” March 2002; “HIPAA OLD AND NEW: PRIVACY TAKES CENTER STAGE” March 2003, “Workers' Compensation in Cases of Injury Exacerbated by Genetic Predisposition: Proposed Model For Implementation of Genome-based Occupational Risk Assessment”, June 2003 and Sept 2003, “Malpractice: The Made-Up “Crisis” June 2004

Member, Steering Committee for Women With Disabilities, New Jersey Developmental Disability Council .2001 to present

Member, US Supreme Court Bar and Author of Briefs before the US Supreme Court
Brief Amicus Curiae, July 1990, In the Supreme Court of the United States IUAW v. JOHNSON CONTROLS on Brief for Behalf of the Industrial Hygiene Law Project
Brief Amicus Curiae February 2002, In the Supreme Court of the United States
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., v.ECHAZABAL, BRIEF FOR PHYSICIANS WHO TEACH OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE,
US Supreme Court Commentaries, 2001-2002 Whitman V American Trucking hyperlinked to the George Washington University Medical School newsletter,
OEM Press Newsletter: US Supreme Court case (Jan 08 2002) Toyota v Williams,

Chair of Disability Conferences:
Including Disabled Students: What Works What Doesn’t US Capitol April 2001
Great Kids Great Schools: Identifying Disability So No Child is Left Behind NJ March 2003
RIGHT to LEARN Haddonfield NJ December 8 2003

Disability Articles:
“Right to Learn” Is Subject of Disability Conference The Retrospect November 21 2003
Promise Magazine Winter 2002 “Bright Students: Our Best National Defense” NJ Association for Gifted Children
Promise Magazine Spring 2002 “Celebrating Fifty Years of Teaching Educators at Barnard College” NJ Association for Gifted Children