Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Professor of Bioethics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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Research Interests:
Health law and bioethics, Clinical research, Disability rights, Health care coverage, “Race" in law and medicine, Health information technology, Legal issues of public health emergency preparedness

Committees/Memberships:
Member: Board of Scientific Counselor for CDC Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (term 2008-2012)
Committee Member: Institute of Medicine; Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for the Public Health System (2007)
Guest Researcher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Public Health Law Program; (January – April 2007)

Publications:
“Finding a Cure: the Case for Regulation and Oversight of Electronic Health Record Systems” 22 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2009).

“Responders Responsibility: Liability and Immunity in Public Health Emergencies,” 96 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2008).

“Settling the Matter: Does Title I of the ADA Work?” 59 Alabama Law Review 305 (2008).

“In Sickness, Health, and Cyberspace: Protecting the Security of Electronic Private Health Information,” 48 Boston College Law Review 331 (2007) (with Andy Podgurski).

“Securing the HIPAA Security Rule,” 10 Journal of Internet Law 1 (February 2007) (with Andy Podgurski).

Presentations:
“Liability Constraints, Concerns, and Unknowns.” Panelist, Medical Countermeasures Dispensing: Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, March 4, 2008.

“Protecting Data, Protecting Privacy?” Joint Program of Sections on Defamation and Privacy, and Law and Computers, Association of American Law Schools, New York, New York, January 4, 2008.

“Finding a Cure: The Case for Regulation and Oversight of Electronic Health Record Systems.” Public Affairs Discussion Group, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 7, 2007.

“Public Health Law and Ethics: Liability and Immunity.” AMA/CDC Second National Congress on Health System Readiness, Washington D.C., July 19, 2007.

“In Sickness, Health, and Cyberspace: Protecting the Security of Electronic Private Health Information.” - Health Law Professors Conference, Boston, MA, June 1, 2007; University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, February 22, 2007.