Phone: (206) 616-6599
Email: ependo@uw.edu
B.A. with Honors, UCLA J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law
Affordable Care Act — Bioethics — Disability and Mental Health Law — Health Care Law — Health Law Ethics
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Elizabeth Pendo, J.D., is the Kellye Y. Testy Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Administration at the University of Washington School of Law. She also serves as a member of the executive council of the UW Population Health Initiative.
Professor Pendo is an expert in disability law and theory, health law and policy, and bioethics and the law, and a specialist on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Affordable Care Act, disability health equity, and legal obligations of providers, institutions, insurers, and employers under anti-discrimination laws. Her research appears in high-impact interdisciplinary publications including Health Affairs, NEJM, Yale Journal of Health Policy and Ethics, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and The Hastings Center Report, and in leading law reviews including Wake Forest Law Review, Utah Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, and UC Davis Law Review. She is also a co-author of the influential casebook, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, 9th ed. (West).
Professor Pendo engages in collaborative, interdisciplinary work designed to improve health and well-being for people with disabilities and other marginalized populations. She participates in policy advising with federal agencies and advocacy groups, and her work recently was cited by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in proposed federal regulations. Professor Pendo was also commissioned as the lead author of a report on the role of law in promoting health and well-being for people with disabilities for the Healthy People 2020 Law and Health Policy Project, a partnership between the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the CDC, and the CDC Foundation funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
As Senior Associate Dean for Academic Administration, Professor Pendo brings a breadth of experience to her work with students, faculty, staff, and university and community partners. She has been active in national legal and academic organizations, including as an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the ABA, Chair of the AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care, and through service on the ABA Commission on Disability Rights.
Prior to joining the faculty at UW Law in 2023, Professor Pendo was a member of the faculty at Saint Louis University School of Law and its top-ranked Center for Health Law Studies (ranked #1 for 16 of the prior 17 years). After graduating from UCLA and UC Berkeley School of Law, Professor Pendo clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practices as an associate at Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt & Maynard (later merged with Ropes & Gray) and in the legal department of MetLife in New York. She is a member of the State Bars of California and New York.
