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When Professor Gittler joined the law faculty in 1973, she became the first woman member of the faculty. The focus of her teaching, scholarship, and service is health law and policy, children, families and the law (child maltreatment, juvenile delinquency and the child welfare and juvenile justice systems), alternate dispute resolution (interest based negotiation and mediation) and the legislative process and drafting.
Professor Gittler is also a Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Iowa College of Public Health and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa College of Medicine (secondary appointments), and she holds an appointment in the University of Iowa College of Nursing where she is Director of Policy for the Hartford Center on Excellence in Geriatric Nursing. In addition, she is a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Fellowship on Aging Program at the University of Iowa Center on Aging.
In 1981, Professor Gittler, founded, with Dr. John MacQueen, the National Health Law and Policy Resource Center (formerly the National Maternal and Child Health Resource Center). The Resource Center is a nationally recognized "think tank" that conducts interdisciplinary research, provides education and training and furnishes technical assistance to public health agencies, and other agencies, institutions and organizations. The Resource Center has a program on maternal, child and adolescent health, a program on health care for the elderly, a program on rural health care and a program on health care conflict management. The Center is supported with federal and private foundation grants, contracts and subcontracts, consulting fees and donations.
Professor Gittler served as chief counsel of a subcommittee of a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and as special counsel to a study committee of the Iowa General Assembly. She also has been a consultant to members of Congress and their staffs as well as members of the Iowa General Assembly and their staffs on issues with respect to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and related services. In addition she has served as a member of a number of federal and state commissions, committees and task forces.
She is the author, co-author or editor of over fifty publications. Since 1988, she has delivered over sixty lectures, addresses and presentations throughout the country.
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