Parver’s innovations to the curriculum became hallmarks. She introduced the annual Health Law and Policy Institute, a summer institute ready for its 17th year, and she was the founding sponsor of the AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition, now in its ninth year.


“The Health Law and Policy Program owes a great debt to Corrine for her outstanding efforts in founding, developing, and helping to sustain the many successes of the program,” said Maya Manian, professor of law and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Program. “Her innovative approaches to curriculum development and teaching continue to guide us today.”


Parver's law career came later in life. Surprisingly, she first worked as a registered physical therapist. A 1964 graduate of McGill University, she was president of the Physical Therapy Association in her native Quebec by 1971. That’s when she found herself dealing with the new health minister’s plan to revamp the province’s health professional codes.


“You don’t learn how to manage anything like that in PT school. So, I had to hire lawyers, learn to write legislation, and learn how to lobby and speak before the members of the Quebec Parliament. That process intrigued me tremendously, and that’s when I decided I wanted to be a lawyer,” she said.


Fulfilling her dream had to be postponed for a few years, though. At that point, she was married to an American attending medical school and the mother of two children. The time was right in 1979, when her family was firmly established in Washington, DC, and her children were attending school full-time, to apply to area law schools. By fall 1979, she was a 35-year-old enrolled in her first semester at AUWCL as an evening student (and still seeing patients in home care).


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Parver remembered: “AUWCL’s registrar at that time was the only one out of all the law schools I applied to who looked at my résumé and saw that I was an older student with a family. She said, ‘Don’t worry. We are very accommodating to people who don’t fit the usual mode.’ She was instrumental in my choosing to come to WCL.”


Aſter graduating cum laude from AUWCL, Parver practiced in law firm and association settings, was employed as CEO and president of a national health care trade association for five years, and opened her own health law and policy consulting practice before joining Dickstein Shapiro LLP. She headed the firm’s health law services practice— eventually making partner—for many years before joining academia.


“My practice was very policy-oriented and regulatory. My clients were companies that needed help with the Medicare and Medicaid agency and with the government’s Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services,” Parver explained. “If I needed criminal law assistance or someone to argue cases before the courts, I would join with other partners in my firm who had that expertise. I wasn’t a litigator but more of a policy wonk.”


Parver is recognized among AUWCL’s John Sherman Myers Society, which honors


AUWCL’s most loyal supporters. She still serves on the law school’s Health Law and Policy Alumni Advisory Council, is a board member for the Holy Cross Health Foundation, and remains active in Women Lawyers on Guard.


She is proud that graduates of the AUWCL Health Law and Policy Program are working in numerous federal capacities and in major corporations that manufacture and provide health care services, supplies, and products.


“Health care is not just a great proportion of our GDP and our economy,” Parver emphasized. “It’s important to our lives and well-being. We all need doctors, hospitals, nurses, and therapists at some point in our lives. And, because it’s such a very heavily regulated profession and industry, it’s important to have lawyers who are skilled in being able to guide the practitioners and the companies through the morass of these laws, regulations, and policies that affect the practice of their careers. The more students we can get adjusted to learning about the economics of health and the rules and regulations that govern the practice of the profession, the better as a society we’ll be.”


“I hear from my former students all the time. It’s a very satisfying feeling to look back.”


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