Tara Sklar

Tara Sklar is the Faculty Director of the Health Law & Policy Program at Arizona Law. She holds appointments as Senior Law & Policy Advisor at the Arizona Telemedicine Program, with the University of Arizona College of Medicine and at Innovations in Healthy Aging with the University of Arizona Health Sciences. She currently serves as an expert on telehealth legal issues with the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, and the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center.  

Sklar’s research examines legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that arise in adapting to a diverse aging population, with a focus on the integration of health technology. Her work has appeared in the following peer-reviewed journals: New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and American Journal of Law & Medicine, and in books by Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, and the American Public Health Association Press.

Sklar presents her research around the world, including to professional associations, at industry conferences, to regulators, and at universities. Her commentary is featured in national media outlets, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg Law, Axios, NPR Science Friday, PBS, Healthline, and The Conversation. She is a peer reviewer for the top legal and medical publications, including Oxford University Press, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, and Journal of Law & Biosciences.

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

Prior to her current role, Sklar was the Founding Faculty Director of Aging Programs at the University of Melbourne where she established the first online Master of Aging degree across nine colleges and an international Industry Network in Aging comprised of 200 organizations.

Professor Sklar has worked for health systems and government entities, including Ascension Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, on a range of issues from charity care and medical debt to end-of-life care. She has received over four million dollars in grants and philanthropic support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, private donors, and funding awards at both the University of Melbourne and the University of Arizona.