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Andrew ("Drew") I. Batavia (June 15, 1957 – January 6, 2003) was a disability rights activist, health policy researcher, author, and associate professor at Florida International University who, at the age of 16, sustained a spinal cord injury. He earned a JD from Harvard Law School and an MS in health services research from Stanford University Medical School, and as a White House Fellow (1990) worked under Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to draft regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2002, he co-founded Autonomy, Inc., to represent persons with disabilities who wanted choices and control over their lives, including the choice to end it for those with disabilities who were terminally ill.

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  • Andrew ("Drew") I. Batavia (June 15, 1957 – January 6, 2003) was a disability rights activist, health policy researcher, author, and associate professor at Florida International University who, at the age of 16, sustained a spinal cord injury. He earned a JD from Harvard Law School and an MS in health services research from Stanford University Medical School, and as a White House Fellow (1990) worked under Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to draft regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2002, he co-founded Autonomy, Inc., to represent persons with disabilities who wanted choices and control over their lives, including the choice to end it for those with disabilities who were terminally ill. (en)
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  • Harvard Law School, Stanford University Medical School, University of California, Riverside (en)
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  • Chancellor's Award, University of California, Riverside , White House Fellowship , Distinguished Handicapped American , Mary E. Switzer Distinguished Research Fellowship (en)
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  • Brooklyn, New York, US (en)
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  • Miami, Florida, US (en)
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  • Disability rights activist; author on disability rights, health care policy and finance, assisted dying, independent living movement; drafted regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title III; co-founder of Autonomy, Inc.; filed U.S. and Florida supreme court amicus briefs on assisted dying (en)
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  • Andrew I. Batavia (en)
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  • Independent, Republican; Bull Moose Party (en)
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  • Cheryl Batavia (en)
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  • Andrew ("Drew") I. Batavia (June 15, 1957 – January 6, 2003) was a disability rights activist, health policy researcher, author, and associate professor at Florida International University who, at the age of 16, sustained a spinal cord injury. He earned a JD from Harvard Law School and an MS in health services research from Stanford University Medical School, and as a White House Fellow (1990) worked under Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to draft regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2002, he co-founded Autonomy, Inc., to represent persons with disabilities who wanted choices and control over their lives, including the choice to end it for those with disabilities who were terminally ill. (en)
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