Rebecca B. Lunstroth, JD, MA

How do you reconcile the need for health care reform with the emphasis and importance that our society places on individual autonomy?  Moreover, what type of “business model” do you create for a service that few people voluntarily seek yet desperately need at some point in their lives? Rebecca Lunstroth, an Instructor in Family Medicine and the Assistant Director of the McGovern Center  lectures on these and other related issues.  Rebecca joined the center in October, 2004, shortly after it was created and co-directs the second year Professionalism and Ethics class and the Medical Humanities Certificate Program. In additional to the U.S. Health Care System she also explores justice and the legal and ethical issues in health care. Rebecca also runs the day to day affairs of the McGovern Center .

Rebecca received a Masters in Medical Humanities from UTMB in December, 2006.  Her master’s thesis was about the demise of employer-based health insurance.   In 1988, she was awarded a J.D. from South Texas College of Law and she completed her undergraduate studies at Indiana University where she majored in economics. 

 Prior to joining the Health Science Center  Rebecca spent 14 years at Shell Oil in a variety of positions including human resources management, operations management and health and safety.