Corrine Propas Parver ’82 traveled an unconventional legal career path. Career changers, women, and non-traditional students can all identify and find inspiration in her choices, challenges, and achievements.
Retirement from her long-standing and distinguished career in the practice of health law and policy meant she could springboard into a new career as a legal educator. To prepare students to be practice-ready in health law when they graduate, Parver launched several health law and policy initiatives that formed the basis for the current Health Law and Policy Program at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL).
Ranked no. 20 among US health care law programs by the 2024 U.S. News and World Report, the AUWCL Health Law and Policy Program is nationally recognized for its health law, policy, drug/device, and compliance studies. AUWCL students benefit from a depth of specialized health law course offerings and career development opportunities that few law schools can match. Its faculty are experts across health law domains, and their diverse perspectives create a rich and collaborative learning environment.
Its faculty are experts across health law domains, and their diverse perspectives create a rich and collaborative learning environment.
“We are grateful to Corrine for building a strong foundation in the study of health law and policy here at AUWCL,” said Asha Scielzo, director of the Health Law and Policy Program and adjunct professor of law. “She prioritized practical and experiential learning, which are the enduring hallmarks of our program today.”
Parver was appointed executive director of the then Health Law and Policy Project and practitioner-in-residence in 2004. She began developing and teaching a curriculum to prepare students to help hospitals, doctors, and health care
professionals comply with the vast array of US health care laws and regulations. These courses emphasized practical topics, many of which she built from scratch because no textbooks existed that she could reference.
During the next eight years, Parver led the creation of several courses, a student health law association, and “The Health Law and Policy Brief.” She was instrumental in creating the Health Law and Policy Program Alumni Advisory Council, which, in turn, supported the transformation of the Health Law and Policy Project into today’s Health Law and Policy Program. This provided dedicated staff and resources and expanded the bench of tenure-track health law faculty.
In recognition of her transformative work, she received AUWCL’s 2012 Women and the Law Leadership Award.
“At one point, I was a one-woman show,” Parver chuckled. “But I had been working in the field for so long, I was able to bring health law specialists both in government and private practice on board as adjuncts. Today, the program remains very robust as far as offering the kinds of courses to attract students from all over the country.”
2022 Program Advisory Council Reception
Left: (left to right): Matthew Pascocello, Kenneth Lore ’73, Corrine Parver. Above left: Ebunola Aniyikaiye ’17, Corrine Parver. Above right: Deborah Kelly ’88, Corrine Parver.
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