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George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.r enowned
as the father of patient rights, is also Chair of the Health Law
Department at Boston University School of Public Health. He is the
author or editor of more than 200 articles and a dozen books on
health law and ethics, including The Rights of Patients;
Judging Medicine; Standard of Care; and Some Choice.
He also writes the "Legal Issues in Medicine" feature in the New
England Journal of Medicine. Professor Annas is a member of the
Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and co-founder of Global Lawyers and
Phyicians. He has served on national and state commissions, including
the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and the Massachusetts
Task Force on Organ Transplantation. His current research focuses
on human rights, genetic manipulations, human experimentation, and
health care regulation.
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Leonard H. Glantz, J.D. is also Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs at Boston University School of Public Health.
He has taught health law and patient rights for more than 25 years.
Professor Glantz has published numerous articles, in both medical
and legal journals, concerning the regulation of research with human
subjects, the rights of children, reproductive rights, the rights
of dying patients, and the rights of persons with mental disabilities.
His most recent book is Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics
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Michael A. Grodin, M.D., a pediatrician
and medical ethicist, is also Co-Director of the Boston Center for
Refugee Health and Human Rights, and co-founder of Global Lawyers
and Physicians. Dr.Grodin has published numerous articles in journals
of law, medicine, and ethics, and co-edited four books: The Nazi Doctors
and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation; Children
as Research Subjects; Meta-Medical Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations
of Medical Ethics; and Health and Human Rights. Dr. Grodin has taught
ethics and human rights for more than 20 years. His current research
focuses on international human rights and health, patient rights in
immigrant and refugee populations, research with human subjects, and
the rights of people with mental illnesses. |
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Wendy K. Mariner, J.D., LL.M, M.P.H.,
Director of the Patient Rights Program, is also Faculty Coordinator
of the J.D./M.P.H joint degree program at Boston University School
of Public Health, and legal director of Boston UniversityÕs Project
on Health Reform in the Russian Federation, funded by the United States
Agency for International Development. Professor Mariner has taught
health law for more than 20 years and served on many national and
international commissions and boards. She has published numerous articles
on patient rights, managed care, liability for injury, research with
human subjects, reproduction, and vaccine policy. Her current research
focuses on patient rights in managed care, insurance regulation, and
health care reform. |
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Patricia A. Roche, J.D., brings a practical
perspective to the Patient Rights Program, having practised law in
Massachusetts, concentrating in family law. She has lectured and published
articles on issues pertaining to the use of DNA tissue samples for
medical and commercial exploitation, for-profit medicine, and laws
protecting patient privacy. Her teaching and research focus on the
privacy and confidentiality of personal information, including genetic
information, the ownership and use of genetic materials in new biotechologies,
and regulating research with human subjects. |
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