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Vicki Girard, JD (she/her/hers)

Faculty Director, Georgetown Health Justice Alliance and Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Georgetown Law Center
Georgetown Law Center
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Vicki W. Girard, JD, is the Faculty Director of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance and Professor of Law, Legal Practice. Professor Girard joined the Law Center after more than a decade representing cosmetic, pharmaceutical, biotech, and tissue companies in FDA-related proceedings and policy matters. Her research interests led her to embrace medical-legal partnership as a model for addressing the health-harming legal needs of historically and intentionally marginalized communities. Recognizing the opportunity to expand the Law Center’s direct legal services in D.C. and to provide a transformative educational experience for medical, nursing, and law students, she co-founded the Health Justice Alliance. In her current role, she collaborates with students, faculty, and staff across the University and MedStar Health to help reduce health disparities for pediatric, cancer, and perinatal patients. She serves as a principal investigator on grants supporting this work and helps promote the national academic medical-legal partnership movement through presentations, publications, and her service on the National Board of Medical Examiners Council. She is a member of the Community Advisory Council for the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer, and is a Steering Committee Member for MedStar Health Safe Babies Safe Moms Initiative.

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