Stimulating Classroom Learning.
Nationally Recognized Scholarship.
It’s a combination used by Washington State University Spokane
professors to ensure the success of their students.
Take
Winsor Schmidt, JD, LLM, professor and chair of the
department of
health policy and
administration.
Professor Schmidt is recognized as a national expert on guardianship. He
first established his leadership in the field with Public
Guardianship and the Elderly (Ballinger Publishing Co., 1981).
His
book Guardianship: Court of Last Resort for the Elderly and
Disabled (Carolina Academic Press, 1995) informs health, social
service, and legal professionals, as well as judges and legislators,
about the findings, analyses, conclusions, and implications from over
a decade of national and state research on guardianship and protective
services for the elderly and disabled.
He says, “My research on guardianship and medical malpractice
informs my teaching on such health law issues as informed consent and
patient safety. Health policy and law issues about the $1.5 trillion
health services industry affect all of our lives and many of our
careers."
The Elder Law Report wrote, "Perhaps no one has studied
guardianship, particularly public guardianship, more closely than
Winsor Schmidt."
According to the Journal of Aging and Social
Policy, "(Professor Schmidt) is a provocative writer who raises a number
of important questions about guardianship policy. He also provides
invaluable information about what is known and not known from
guardianship research."
Professor Schmidt serves on the Board of Directors of the National
Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. In 2003, he was appointed
to the Certified Professional Guardian Board of the Washington court
system. He presents regularly at national conferences on guardianship
and related subjects.
Professor Schmidt says, "I am proud to serve as director of one of
the four best health administration programs in the 14-state WICHE
Western Regional Graduate Program region."
He received the AB in
government from Harvard University, the JD in public law from American
University, and the LLM in mental health law from the University of
Virginia.
Washington State University Spokane students learn in small,
seminar-sized classes, engaged one-on-one with leading researchers
and teachers
such as Professor Schmidt. It's just one of the reasons students
choose WSU Spokane.
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