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Marshall B. Kapp
Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law and Medicine

Biography

Marshall B. Kapp was educated at Johns Hopkins University (B.A.), George Washington University Law School (J.D. with Honors), and Harvard University School of Public Health (M.P.H.). He is the Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law and Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Law. He also has a faculty appointment in the Department of Medical Humanities in the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

From 1980 through 2003, he was a faculty member in the School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he was professor in the departments of Community Health and Psychiatry and taught courses on the legal and ethical aspects of health care. He also was director of WSU’s Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and held an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Dayton School of Law. From 1998–2001, he was designated Wright State University’s Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Service. In 2004, he was granted Professor Emeritus status from Wright State.

Professor Kapp is the author or coauthor of a substantial number of published articles, book chapters, and reviews. He is the founding editor of the Ethics, Law, and Aging Review (formerly the Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging) published by Springer Publishing Company and founding editor of Springer’s Book Series on Ethics, Law and Aging. Additionally, he is the present editor of the Journal of Legal Medicine, the official scholarly publication of the American College of Legal Medicine.

Professor Kapp is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the American College of Legal Medicine, and he served as elected secretary of the American Society on Aging from 2003 to 2006. He spent the 1987–88 academic year on professional development leave as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Fellow in Health Care Finance. In 1997, he received the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management Award for Writing Excellence as Author of the Year from the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. In 1998, he was named Ohio Researcher of the Year by the Ohio Research Council on Aging. In 2003, he received the Donald Kent Award of the Gerontological Society of America for exemplifying “the highest standards for professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society.”