Rachel Zuraw is a health care attorney, bioethicist, and professional educator. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, Attorney Zuraw also holds a graduate degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is currently Director of Professional Development at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where she plays a lead role in the strategic development of law degree programs and advises international law students. She also creates and teaches courses for upper-level law students on the intersection of ethics, health law, and pharmaceutical innovation.

Prior to her academic career, she served as a health care litigation attorney at a top-ranked California law firm. Her practice spanned all areas of health law litigation and counseling, including appellate practice. Ms. Zuraw represented long-term care facilities in civil, administrative, and regulatory proceedings involving a wide range of issues, as well as represented and counseled medical staffs with regard to the peer review process and ethics-based decision-making. She authored appellate and amicus briefs on behalf of health care clients on a variety of topics, including writ petitions in both superior and appellate court. Ms. Zuraw is also expert in public health law and current issues in bioethics.