Mark A. Rothstein
Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine
- E-mail: maroth01@louisville.edu
- Phone: 852-4982
Mark A. Rothstein holds the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and is the Founding 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 has concentrated his research on bioethics, genetics, health privacy, public health law, and employment law. From 1999-2008, he served as 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. He is past president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
He is the author or editor of 19 books and nearly 200 book chapters and articles in leading journals of bioethics, law, medicine, and public health. His latest book is Employment Law (with Craver, Schroeder, & Shoben)(Thomson/West, 4th ed., 2009).