Faculty Member Profiles

Diane Hoffmann, JD, MS

Jacob A. France Professor of Health Law
SCHOOL OF LAW

Research Interests

• gender differences in the treatment of pain
• legal obstacles to the treatment of pain (state medical licensing boards, medical malpractice, criminal prosecution of physicians)
• insurance coverange of chronic pain treatments
• laws and policies adopted to limit opioid prescribing by states and federal agencies
• medical marijuana regulation

Research Approaches

• Legal research

Publications

1. Medical Marijuana and the Law: Perspective, 362 New England Journal of Medicine 1453 (2010) (with Ellen Weber)
2. Physicians Who Break the Law, 53 St. Louis University Law Journal 1049 (2009)
3. Treating Pain v. Reducing Drug Diversion and Abuse: Recalibrating the Balance in Our Drug Control Laws & Policies, 1 St. Louis University Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 231 (2008).
4. Can State Medical Boards Adequately Respond to Reports that Physicians are Inappropriately Prescribing Opioids?, 81 Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 799 (2007)
5. A Statewide Survey Identifying Perceived Barriers to Hospice Use in Nursing Homes, 8 Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing 328 (2006) (with Anita J. Tarzian).

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