Tara Sklar

Professor Tara Sklar is the Faculty Director of the Health Law & Policy Program and a Distinguished Public Service Scholar at Arizona Law. She also holds appointments as Associate Director of Telehealth Law & Policy at the Arizona Telemedicine Program, College of Medicine-Tucson, and as a Senior Advisor with Innovations in Healthy Aging at the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

She currently serves as a subject matter expert on telehealth law and policy with the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers and with HHS Health Resources & Services Administration in the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth.  She is also the Chair-Elect of the Executive Committee of the Aging & the Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Professor Sklar’s teaching and research bridges the gap between healthcare and law, aligning where they fit together to mitigate health disparities and improve patient care for vulnerable populations. Her work examines legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that arise in adapting to a diverse aging population, with a particular focus on digital health equity.

Her scholarship has appeared in the following peer-reviewed journals, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, among others, and in books by Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, and the American Public Health Association Press. Her research and commentary are featured in numerous national media outlets, including Axios, Bloomberg Law, FiveThirtyEight, NPR Science Friday, PBS, The Verge, along with opinion pieces in The Conversation and Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health.

At Arizona Law, Professor Sklar launched and directs a portfolio of over 35 online Health Law & Policy courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and four certificates. She developed this curriculum in collaboration with faculty across seven University of Arizona colleges and with industry leaders at global companies. She teaches courses on Telehealth Law & Policy, Aging and the Law, and guest lectures throughout the health law curriculum.

Prior to her current role, Professor Sklar was the Founding Faculty Director of Aging Programs at the University of Melbourne where she established the first online Master of Aging degree by bridging nine colleges and creating an international Industry Network in Aging. She has worked for health systems and government entities, including Ascension Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Professor Sklar has received over four million dollars in grants and philanthropic gifts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, private donors, and funding awards at the University of Melbourne and the University of Arizona.