Elizabeth Pendo is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. She has a secondary appointment as Professor of Health Management and Policy at Saint Louis University School of Public Health, and is a member of the Center for Health Law Studies and the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law at the School of Law. She teaches courses in Disability Law, Bioethics and Civil Procedure and has lectured on bioethics and disability issues at SLU’s Department of Medicine, Department of Health Care Ethics and the College of Education and Public Service.
Her scholarship focuses on the “difference” disability makes in different places in our society such as the health care system and the workplace, with a particular interest in legal and social meanings of disability and their relationship to classifications based on gender, race and genetic information. She recent published a series of articles examining inaccessible medical equipment as a barrier to care, including Reducing Disparities through Health Care Reform: Disability and Accessible Medical Equipment, 4 Utah L. Rev. 1057 (2010) and Disability, Equipment Barriers and Women’s Health: Using the ADA to Provide Meaningful Access, 2 St. Louis Univ. J. Health L. & Pol’y 15 (2008). Other projects include civil rights and health care reform approaches to health disparities for people with disabilities; models of disability and their impact on health care; public right-of-way and accessibility issues in the City of Saint Louis; and genetic testing in the workplace, and its intersections with classifications based on gender, race, class and disability.
Elizabeth has published with a number of law journals and peer-reviewed journals across the country, including, U.C. Davis Law Review, Utah Law Review, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, The Journal of Legal Medicine, and The Harvard Women’s Law Journal. She frequently submits testimony and comment to federal agencies and legislatures on issues relating to her work.
Additionally, she is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the recipient of the YWCA Leadership Award and the Women’s Justice Legal Scholar Award awarded to women faculty members or administrators who fulfill the ideals of the legal profession through their own work with the justice system, through their research or scholarship, or through teaching and inspiring others.
