CPIL’s Administrative Director, Bridget Gramme Appears on NBC News

CPIL’s Administrative Director, Bridget Gramme Appears on NBC News

Bridget Gramme

San Diego (September 20, 2018) – University of San Diego School of Law’s Center for Public Interest Law’s  (CPIL) Administrative Director Bridget Gramme, appeared on NBC News in a story reporting on the new law that requires doctors on probation to disclose discipline to patients.

According to the story, a new law recently signed by Governor Brown requires doctors to inform their patients when they have been disciplined for serious misconduct.  The specific disciplinary actions covered by SB 1448 (Hill), The Patients Right to Know Act, are

  • Sexual misconduct with a patient
  • Drug abuse that can harm patients
  • A criminal conviction involving harm to patients
  • Inappropriate prescribing resulting in patient harm and five or more years’ probation

“Sadly, it usually takes some kind of tragedy or some kind of headline to really get the attention of legislators and make them do the right thing and actually pass these types of reforms,” said Bridget Gramme of the University of San Diego’s Center for Public Interest Law. Gramme when on to say, “You know, it's an individual decision, but patients can make that choice now, having all the information that they need.”

According to Senator Jerry Hill, author of this landmark legislation, “This legislation owes its success to all the brave survivors who have testified about their traumatic and deeply personal experiences in the past three years. As the testimony of survivors showed, leaving patients in the dark about this critical information makes them vulnerable to abuse.”

To view the story and read the article click here.

About Center for Public Interest Law

Founded in 1980, the University of San Diego School of Law’s Center for Public Interest Law (CPIL) serves as an academic center of research and advocacy in regulatory and public interest law. CPIL focuses its efforts on the study of an extremely powerful, yet often overlooked, level of government: state regulatory agencies. Under the supervision of experienced public interest attorneys and advocates, CPIL law student interns study California agencies that regulate business, professions, and trades.

CPIL publishes the California Regulatory Law Reporter, a unique legal journal that covers the activities and decisions of over 12 major California regulatory agencies.

In addition to its academic program, CPIL has an advocacy component. Center faculty, professional staff, and interns represent the interests of the unorganized and underrepresented in California’s legislature, courts, and regulatory agencies. CPIL attempts to make the regulatory functions of California government more efficient and visible by serving as a public monitor of state regulatory activity. The Center has been particularly active in reforming the state’s professional discipline systems for attorneys and physicians, and in advocating public interest reforms to the state’s open meetings and public records statutes.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is recognized for the excellence of its faculty, depth of its curriculum, and strength of its clinical programs. Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 35th nationally and 6th on the West Coast among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 24th nationally and 6th on the West Coast in all-time faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, nonprofit, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.

Contact:

Katie Gonzalez
katiegonzalez@sandiego.edu
(619) 260-4806