2007 Inaugural John & Marsha Ryan Bioethicist in Residence

Mark A. Rothstein


School of Law
Center for Health Law and Policy

"Health Privacy in the Electronic Age"


As health providers and agencies race to link networks of electronic
health records, will it be possible to protect health privacy?


Wednesday, March 21, 2007
5 p.m.
Reception following presentation
Southern Illinois University School of Law
Life Science III, Auditorium (Room 1059)
1135 Lincoln Drive
Carbondale, Illinois 62901

This lecture is free and open to the public

Please RSVP to 618.453.8636 or chlp@siu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark A. Rothstein holds the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and is Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the
University of Louisville School of Medicine. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. from Georgetown University.
Professor Rothstein is a leading authority on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics,
privacy, occupational health, employment law, and
public health law. He is Chair of the Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the
statutory advisory committee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on health information policy, including the privacy regulations of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. He is the immediate past-President of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
He is the author or editor of 19 books. His latest book is Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (with Andrews & Mehlman).

 

The John and Marsha Ryan Bioethicist in Residence was established in 2006 to fund an annual residence and lecture by a law and/or medicine ethics scholar at the School of Law and School of Medicine at Southern Illinois University.

Each year a leading bioethics scholar will visit classes at the law school and provide a seminar for medical students in Carbondale and Springfield; organize interdisciplinary educational activities for students, residents, and faculty from both institutions; be available to mentor law and medicine students; offer a public lecture on his or her scholarship as it relates to law and medicine; and be invited to submit a written version of this lecture for publication in the Journal of Legal Medicine.

 

Directors:
W. Eugene Basanta, J.D., LL.M.
Marshall B. Kapp, J.D., M.P.H.
 
Southern Illinois University School of Law
Center for Health Law and Policy
Lesar Law Building – Mail Code 6804
1150 Douglas Drive
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
(618) 453-8636
chlp@siu.edu


 

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