BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Ellen Grabois was born in Philadelphia, educated at the University of
Pennsylvania and received her masters degree in library science
at Drexel University. She worked in both public and university
libraries as a reference librarian, including the Free Library
of Philadelphia, University of Wisconsin, and the Houston Public
Library. She received her law degree from the South Texas College
of Law in 1983, and was Associate Editor-in-Chief of the South
Texas Law Review. She later was a briefing attorney to the Honorable
Jackson B. Smith of the Texas First Court of Appeals. She has
taught legal research and writing at South Texas College of Law
and at the University of Houston Law Center. She worked as a co-investigator
at the University of Houston Law Center Health Law Institute on
the study, "Nonfinancial Barriers to Health Care in Texas."
She received her Masters of Law in Health Law at the University
of Houston Law Center in 1995, and is currently working as a postdoctoral
fellow in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
at Baylor College of Medicine, and has a National Institutes of
Health grant to do research at the Center for Research on Women
with Disabilities in Houston on the Americans with Disabilities
Act. She was recently appointed to the Houston Bar Association
Interprofessional Relations-Physicians Committee, and has served
in the Bar Association's Moderated Settlement Program. She is
a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association.
CURRICULUM VITAE for Ellen Grabois,call (713) 960-0505
to contact the Center for Research on Women with Disabilties
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