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  • Wooten named director of law library

    James A. Wooten, professor in the UB Law School, has been appointed director of the Charles B. Sears Law Library and director and vice dean for legal information services in the law school.

    The appointment, made by Dean Makau Mutua, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Law School, is effective Aug. 14.

    “Jim has a great passion for books and research,” said Mutua. “He is in tune with the changing nature of law libraries in the information age and the importance of the law library to our school and the greater Buffalo legal community. Jim is a collegial member of the Law School community, and I feel very fortunate to have him leading our library and on my leadership team.”

    At UB Law, Wooten teaches courses on pension and employee benefit law, federal income taxation and federal tax policy. He also has taught bankruptcy, legislative policymaking and law and economics. His research focuses on regulatory and tax policies affecting retirement plans, health plans and other employee benefit plans.

    He serves on the steering committee of the Tobin Project and chairs its working group on retirement security. Wooten is also a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

    A graduate of Rice University, Wooten earned a J.D. and a Ph.D. in American studies, both from Yale University. He clerked for federal district Judge William Wayne Justice of the Eastern District of Texas and was an associate at Bredhoff & Kaiser, one of the nation's leading firms in the fields of labor and employee benefit law.

    Wooten later served as Legal History Fellow at Yale Law School and as a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law before joining the UB Law faculty in 1995.

  • CFA to host arts in health care training

    Students and professionals will have a chance to explore the arts in healthcare through applied theory and practice during a two-week intensive training program provided by the UB Center for the Arts Arts in Healthcare Initiative and the University of Florida Center for the Arts in Healthcare.

    The training program, which will begin on Aug. 10 and run through Aug. 21, is being hosted by the UB Center for the Arts.

    Participants will be enrolled in either the Advanced Clinical Practice Track or the Introductory Track. The Advanced Clinical Practice Track will offer daily cross-disciplinary clinical practice at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, as well as in-depth explorations of practice supported by current research and theory.

    Participants in the Introductory Track will explore the applications of visual arts, writing, music, theatre and dance in health care fields and settings through hands-on studio workshops, clinical observation, review of current literature and discussion-based exploration of clinical practice with advanced practitioners.

    Participants in the two tracks will come together each day for

    lectures on relevant arts in health care topics, "journal club" explorations

    of current literature and roundtable discussions of clinical

    practice based on current clinical experiences and grounded in theory

    and current research.

    After the training program, advanced clinical practitioners will have the opportunity to participate via a listserv and blog in a special interest group established through the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. The forum also will allow program planners at UB to document the value of the intensive training program and refine it for greater effectiveness.

    For more information on the UB Center for the Arts' Arts in Healthcare program now under way at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, click here.