Seeking a summer associate position for 2009

PIERRE J. VACHON

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL, Philadelphia, PA

J.D. candidate, 2010

Honors: Associate Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change

Activities: Penn Law Reproductive Rights Project, 2007-2008

UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, Montréal, QC

Faculty of Medicine, Graduate Certificate, Insurance Medicine and Medico-legal Expertise, 2007

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, B.A., History, 1997

Activities: Chairman of the Board, Student Government; President, Campus Radio;

Quiz-Bowl Intramural – twice league top scorer

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Berkeley, CA

Dept. of Demography, Ph.D., Demography, 2006

Dissertation Title: Agency and Social Networks: Family Planning and AIDS in Rural Malawi

Activities: Social Chair, 2000-2002

School of Law (Boalt), successful completion of course Insurance Law, grade of ‘honors’ 2006

School of Public Health, M.P.H., Epidemiology, 2001

EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA 2008

Teaching Assistant to Prof. David Abrams; Research Assistant, Prof. Tom Baker (Fall)

School of Law: Analytical Methods in the Law; preparation of problem sets, exam, grading, conduction of additional sessions. Ongoing research project on insurance law and risk perception biases.

Research Assistant to Profs. Tom Baker and Cary Coglianese (Summer)

Documented the relationship between States’ tort law, insurance and the use policies pertaining to school’s grounds after hours for recreational use (part of a project on obesity and children in the U.S.). Explored the relationship between psychology, risk perception, behavioral economics, and the need for regulation in insurance. Analyzed the effect of landmark decisions regarding judicial review on agencies’ decision-making process.

DYER BROWN, LLP, London, ON 2007

Trial Expert

Retained as an expert witness to testify on life expectancy in a personal injury action. Review of documents, analysis, calculations and writing of report. Expected trial date: June 2009.

STRAUSS & SHAVELLE, INC., San Francisco, CA 2004-2007

Epidemiologist

Performed literature review, data analysis, drafted expert reports on life expectancy for purposes of litigation, conducted biostatistical and medical research.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Berkeley, CA 1999-2003

Graduate Student Instructor (Summer 2002-Fall 2003)

School of Public Health: Multivariate Statistics, Introduction to Biostatistics; Dept. of Economics: Economic Demography.

Graduate Student Researcher (1999-2002)

Berkeley Mortality Database (http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~bmd/). Collected and processed population data (census and vital records) from international sources. Programmed, calculated mortality rates and life expectancies.

STATISTICS CANADA, Ottawa, ON 1999, 2001

Junior Analyst (Summer)

Unpaid Work Analysis Division. Creation of web-based didactic material for Statistic Canada employees; modules on population, mortality, fertility and aging.

UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, Montréal, QC 1998

Teaching Assistant (Spring)

Introduction to Microeconomics. Composing problem sets, exams, grading, teaching sections.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATION

Fécondité et réseaux sociaux. The France-Berkeley Conference at l’Institut Nationale d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris. May 20-21, 2003.

“Espérance de vie” [Life Expectancy] – included in video library of web-based course “Médecine d’assurance”, School of Medicine, Université de Montréal, 2006.

“Mortality Analysis - MIB - Life Expectancy”– included in video library of web-based course “Insurance Medicine”, School of Medicine, Université de Montréal, 2006.

Day SM, Strauss DJ, Vachon PJ, Rosenbloom L, Shavelle RM, Wu YW (2007). Demonstration Poster: Growth charts for persons with cerebral palsy stratified by level of motor functioning and feeding ability. Presented at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, October 10-13, 2007: Vancouver.

“Calculating Life Expectancy” – Canadian Life Insurance Medical Officers Association, Annual Meeting, Montréal, May 11, 2008.

PUBLICATIONS

Strauss DJ, Vachon PJ, Shavelle RM (2005). Estimation of future mortality rates and life expectancy in chronic medical conditions. Journal of Insurance Medicine, 37:20-34.

Day SM, Strauss DJ, Vachon PJ, Rosenbloom L, Shavelle RM, Wu YW (2007). Growth patterns in a population of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 49:167-171.

INTERESTS / SKILLS

Chess – Title of Expert (United States Chess Federation)

Native French speaker

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