Sallie Thieme Sanford

Associate Professor of Law
Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Systems and Population Health

Contact

Phone: (206) 685-4245
Email: sanfords@u.washington.edu

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Education

B.A. 1986 Brown University J.D. 1991 University of California, Los Angeles

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise

Health Care Law — Affordable Care Act — Public Health Law — Global Health — Bioethics

Recent Courses

LAW H 501

Fundamentals Of Health Law

Selected Publications

Sallie Thieme Sanford, Conditions of Participation: Incorporating the History of Hospital Desegregation, 51 J.L., Med. & Ethics 979-83 (Winter 2023) (Online Appendix with Conditions of Participation: Incorporating the History of Hospital Desegregation teaching materials is found at [https://perma.cc/G8WA-UNN2]).
J. Stuart Showalter & Sallie Thieme Sanford, The Law of Healthcare Administration (10th ed., Health Admin. Press 2023). 663 pages.
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Nobody Knew How Complicated: Constraining the President’s Power to (Re)Shape Health Reform, 45 Am. J.L. & Med. 106-29 (2019).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Health Reform and Higher Ed: Campuses as Harbingers of Medicaid Universality and Medicare Commonality, 47 J.L., Med. & Ethics 79-90 (S4 2019).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Mind the Gap: Basic Health along the ACA's Coverage Continuum, 17 J. Health Care L. & Pol’y 101-27 (2014).

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Biography
Publications
Presentations

Sallie Thieme Sanford, JD. is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Law, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Population Health. She received her B.A. with honors from Brown University and her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Professor Sanford began her legal career as a law clerk for The Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She then served as an Assistant Attorney General representing the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and the UW’s health sciences schools. Professor Sanford has been active on the board of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, including service as its president.

Professor Sanford’s research interests focus on Affordable Care Act implementation, healthcare delivery systems, health administration law, Medicare and Medicaid, comparative healthcare law, public health law, and medical and administrative ethics. Professor Sanford’s recent scholarship includes: The Law of Healthcare Administration (10th ed. 2023) (with J. Stuart Showalter); Health Reform and Higher Ed: Campuses as Harbingers of Medicaid Universality and Medicare Commonality, 47 J.L. Med. & Ethics, No. 4 Supp., Winter 2019, at 79-90; and Nobody Knew How Complicated: Constraining the President’s Power to (Re)Shape Health Reform, 45 Am. J.L. & Med. 106-129 (2019).

Professor Sanford has published several short, accessible articles about the Affordable Care Act and the litigation surrounding it. In addition, she has conducted funded research into law and policy reforms in support of HIV reduction in the Global South.

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

Sallie Thieme Sanford, Conditions of Participation: Incorporating the History of Hospital Desegregation, 51 J.L., Med. & Ethics 979-83 (Winter 2023) (Online Appendix with Conditions of Participation: Incorporating the History of Hospital Desegregation teaching materials is found at [https://perma.cc/G8WA-UNN2]).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Nobody Knew How Complicated: Constraining the President’s Power to (Re)Shape Health Reform, 45 Am. J.L. & Med. 106-29 (2019).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Health Reform and Higher Ed: Campuses as Harbingers of Medicaid Universality and Medicare Commonality, 47 J.L., Med. & Ethics 79-90 (S4 2019).
Amy Hagiopian, Deepa Rao, Aaron Katz, Sallie Sanford & Scott Barnhart, Anti-Homosexual Legislation and HIV-Related Stigma in African Nations: What Has Been the Role of PEPFAR?, 10 Global Health Action 1-10 (2017).
Jeffrey Lane et al., Monitoring HIV and AIDS Related Policy Reform: A Road Map to Strengthen Policy Monitoring and Implementation of PEPFAR Partner Countries, PLOS One (Feb. 25, 2016).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Mind the Gap: Basic Health along the ACA's Coverage Continuum, 17 J. Health Care L. & Pol’y 101-27 (2014).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, The Struggle to Bury Pre-Existing Condition Consideration, 7 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol'y 405-14 (2014).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Emergency Response: A Systemic Approach to Diaper Rash, Chest Pain, and Medicaid in the ED, 102 Ky. L.J. 441-70 (2013-14).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Designing Model Homes for the Changing Medical Neighborhood: A Multi-Payer Pilot Offers Lessons for ACO and PCMH Construction, 42 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1519-47 (2012).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Teaching Health Law in Rural Ethiopia: Using a PEPFAR Partnership Framework and India’s Shanbaug Decision to Shape a Course, 9 Ind. Health L. Rev. 487-501 (2012).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, What Scribner Wrought: How the Invention of Modern Dialysis Shaped Health Law and Policy, 13 Rich. J.L. & Pub. Int. 337-65 (2010).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Candor After Kadlec: Why, Despite the Fifth Circuit's Decision, Hospitals Should Anticipate an Expanded Obligation to Disclose Risky Physician Behavior, 1 Drexel L. Rev. 398-438 (2009).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, On One Condition: At a Bed-Side Hearing, The Judge's Role Goes Beyond Issuing a Decision, 48 Judges J. 33-35 (2009).
"The Kadlec Case: Law, Theory and Practice Converge in Support of a Duty of Greater Candor in Physician Credentialing," (in draft).
Comment, Pretrial Access Rights: The Operation III-Wind Cases, 43 Fed. Comm. L.J. 79 (1990).

Books or Treatises

J. Stuart Showalter & Sallie Thieme Sanford, The Law of Healthcare Administration (10th ed., Health Admin. Press 2023). 663 pages.

Book Chapters

Sallie Thieme Sanford & Lisa A. Vincler, Academic Freedom and Proprietary Information, in The IACUC Handbook 365-84 (Jerald Silverman, Mark A. Suckow & Sreekant Murthy eds., CRC Press 2000).

Professional Publications

Sallie Thieme Sanford, Health Care's Fraternal Twins at 50: The Birth and Development of Medicare and Medicaid, Jurist (Nov. 1, 2015, 7:03 PM).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, King v. Burwell: ACA Destruction Denied, ACA Expansion Enabled, Jurist (Oct. 28, 2015, 9:36 AM).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, Unexpected Twists in the Affordable Care Act Decision, Jurist (July 13, 2012, 12:40 PM).
Sallie Sanford, Understanding the Health Care Reform Litigation, Jurist (Feb. 16, 2012, 9:00 AM).
Sallie Sanford, The Impact of a "Middle-Management" Health Care Ruling, Jurist (July 5, 2011, 3:00 PM) .
Sallie Sanford, Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?, Jurist (Apr. 21, 2010, 8:01 AM).
Sallie Thieme Sanford, A Black Robe and Healing Words: Constants in a Changing World, Judges J., Winter 2009, at 33-34.
Sallie Thieme Sanford, “Outward Bound: Do Food Allergies Keep Your Family Close to Home? It’s Time to Venture Forth,” Living Without, Vol. 11, No. 4 (June/July 2008).
Lisa A. Vincler and Sallie Thieme Sanford, eds. "Special Consents" chapter of Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys’ Manual on Health Law (1999).
Cindy Howey and Sallie Thieme Sanford, Washington State annotations and legal discussion for "Decision-Making for Incompetent Patients" chapter of The Health Law Practice Guide, National Health Lawyers Association [now the American Health Law Association] (1998).

Speaker, Conditions of Participation: Incorporating the History of Hospital Desegregation , June 7, 2023, Baltimore, MD Medicine and Ethics’ 46th Annual Health Law Professors Conference, American Society of Law (June 7, 2023)
Speaker, "Choosing to Remember: Teaching Hospital Segregation and Desegregation", 45th Annual Health Law Professors Conference, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (June 2, 2022)
Speaker, "Childs v. Weis: Seeking Medical Help and Legal Redress in ‘the Blackest Land’ with ‘the Whitest People'", 44th Annual Health Law Professors Conference (virtual), American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (June 11, 2021)
Speaker, "Health Reform and Higher Ed", 42nd Annual Health Law Professors Conference, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (June 6, 2019)
Speaker, "The A.C.A. in D.C., P.D.Q.", Annual Program, University of Washington Master of Health Administration (May 1, 2019)
Speaker, "What's the Status of Payment Reform?", 2019 Spring Event: The State of Health Care Payment Reform, University of Washington Master of Health Administration Program and the Washington State Healthcare Executives Forum (May 1, 2019)
Speaker, "Nobody Knew How Complicated: Constraining the President’s Power to (Re)Shape Health Reform", American Journal of Law & Medicine 2019 Symposium on The Crisis in Democracy: Non-Legislative Efforts to Change Health Law, (January 25, 2019)
Panelist, "Court Cases That Might Shake Up Healthcare", State of Reform Washington, (January 10, 2019)
Moderator, "Women in Health Care Leadership", Continuing Education Program, University of Washington Master of Health Administration (May 7, 2018)
Panelist, "Strategies to Manage Population Health", State of Reform Washington, (January 4, 2018)
Speaker, "The Affordable Care Act: What Now? What Next?", University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (December 1, 2017)
Speaker, "Presidential Power and the Future of Healthcare Reform", Presidential Power and the Law, Women's University Club of Seattle (November 29, 2017)
Speaker, "Can He Do That? The President’s Role in Shaping Health Reform", Prism Lecture, University of Washington School of Public Health (November 16, 2017)
Panelist, "The Current State of the ACA and Healthcare", Seattle University School of Law and King County Medical Association (April 21, 2017)
Moderator and panelist, "The Future of the Affordable Care Act", University of Washington (March 10, 2017)