HEALTH INNOVATION LAB AT VILLANOVA LAW
The Health Innovation Lab at Villanova Law is an interdisciplinary platform fostering work on both longstanding and emerging health care problems.
The Lab brings together researchers, practitioners and members of the local community and the Northeast region. It organizes conferences, talks and other events exploring topics related to health innovation. The Lab also publishes white papers and other research on these topics.
AFFILIATES
Faculty Director
Ana Santos Rutschman
Faculty Director of the Health Innovation Lab, Director of International Programs & Professor of Law
Lab Affiliates
Brett Frischmann
The Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics
Kathleen Iacocca
Associate Professor of Management & Operations, Villanova School of Business
Sara Lynch
Assistant Professor of Law & Director of the Interdisciplinary Mental and Physical Health Law Clinic
Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz
Professor, M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing
Itay Ravid
Associate Professor of Law & Reuschlein Emerging Scholar
Michael Risch
Professor of Law
Kate Vengraitis
Anti-Poverty Fellow
Lab Affiliate Research Associates
EVENTS
The Health Innovation Speaker Series features leading scholars, practitioners and advocates addressing both longstanding and emerging issues in health law and policy.
2026-27 Events
- October 6, 2026: Sapna Kumar, Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
- October 13, 2026: Wendy Epstein, Vincent de Paul Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
- October 8, 2026: James Hodge, Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
- October 27, 2026: Holly Fernandez Lynch, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
- November 12, 2026: Elizabeth Chiarello, Scholar, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
2025-26 Events
- October 8, 2025: Erin Fuse Brown, Professor, Brown University School of Public Health
- October 16, 2025: Lewis Grossman, Professor and Ann Loeb Bronfman Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- February 9, 2026: Charles Duan, Assistant Professor, American University Washington College of Law
- March 11, 2026: I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law & Deputy Dean, Harvard Law School
- April 13, 2026: I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law & Deputy Dean, Harvard Law School
The Conference on the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dates TBA
RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM AFFILIATE FACULTY
Brett Frischman
- Antimicrobial Effectiveness Within a New Paradigm of Infrastructure, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2026)
- Tort Liability for Failure to Age Gate: A Promising Regulatory Response to Digital Public Health Hazards, Journal of Tort Law (2026)
Kathleen Iacocca
- A Descriptive Investigation of the Impact of Statewide Distribution Policies and Consumer Vulnerabilities on COVID-19 Vaccination in the United States, Health Care Management Science (2025)
Jacqueline Penrod
- The New Vaccine Federalism in the U.S., Health Affairs Forefront (2025)
Ana Santos Rutschman
- The American Asthma Patient, UC Davis Law Review (2026)
- The New Vaccine Federalism in the U.S., Health Affairs Forefront (2025)
- Impact of the 23andMe Bankruptcy on Preserving the Public Benefit of Scientific Data, Nature Genetics (2025)
- Mapping Intellectual Property Abuses in the Pharmaceutical Field, Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum (2025)
- From Myriad to Moderna: The Modern (Bio)Pharmaceutical Company. Texas A&M Journal of Property Law (2025)
Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz
- Structure, Staffing, and Strain: Lessons from U.S. Infection Preventionists on Building Resilient Systems Post–COVID-19, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology (2026)
- Preventing Collapse: A Premortem on the Future of Infection Prevention and Control Research and Practice, American Journal of Infection Control (2026)
- Transforming Care: The Impact of COVID-19 on Telehealth Adoption in US Home Health Care Agencies, Telemedicine & e-Health (2025)
- Taking Action to Support Nursing Home Resident Well-Being: Perspectives of U.S. Nursing Home Staff During COVID-19. The Gerontologist (2025)
- Acceptability and Preliminary Impact of Telehealth-Facilitated Integrated Palliative Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of Palliative Medicine (2025)
Michael Risch
- The Double Patenting Puzzle. Houston Law Review (forthcoming, 2026)
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
299 N. Spring Mill Road
Villanova, PA 19085
Ana Santos Rutschman, Faculty Director of the Health Innovation Lab & Professor of Law