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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Marc A. Rodwin |
Professor of Law
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| S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y |
Marc A. Rodwin is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. He is the author of Medicine, Money & Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest (Oxford University Press, 1993). His current research analyzes the conflicts of interest and the medical professions in France, Japan and the United States. He has published in law, medical and policy journals on: 1) consumer protection in health care; 2) health care consumer voice and representation; 3) accountability in managed care; and 4) regulation of health care markets. Rodwin has testified before Congress and state legislatures and served on government commissions and advisory boards, including the Food and Drug Administration and the Indiana Commission on Hospital Antitrust. Rodwin has assisted consumer groups including the Consumer Federation of America, and Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care. He has worked as a consultant or expert witness on policy related litigation involving fiduciary law, physicians' conflicts of interests, competition law, and managed care in numerous lawsuits. .
Rodwin serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, and Health Expectations: An International Journal of Participation in Health Care. He is on the advisory board of the Open Society Institute program on Medicine as a Profession. He has published in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, The Milbank Quarterly, The American Prospect, The American Journal of Law and Medicine, the Journal of Health Law, the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and other law reviews. From 1993 to 1998 he served as the program chair and later the forum chair of the health law forum of the American Public Health Association. .
Rodwin has been a recipient of several fellowships and grants including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award, The Fulbright, The Fellowship, The German Marshal Fund Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council Abe Fellowship and the Pew Health Policy Doctoral Fellowship,. Rodwin has given talks at professional meetings and universities in the Japan, Canada, Britain, France and the U.S., including: Yale University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of California, M.I.T., University of Virginia, and the RAND corporation. He has participated in meetings sponsored by the American Bar Association, the National Academy of Sciences-Institute of Medicine, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the American College of Physicians, the Health Care Financial Management Association, the National Health Policy Forum and other groups..
Prior to joining Suffolk University, Rodwin was Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and before that, he was a lecturer at Tufts and Brandeis Universities. He has also practiced civil litigation in Boston law firms and worked as a consultant. He holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Health and Social Welfare Policy, a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School, a B.A./ M.A. from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and a B.A. from Brown University in Analytical Method and Policy.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Degrees:
BA, Brown University; BA, MA, Oxford University; JD, University of Virginia; Ph.D., Brandeis University
Bar Admittance:
MA, 1983; Washington D.C. 1985
Subjects:
Health Law and Policy; Managed Care Law; Professional Responsibility; Health Care Reform; Medical Malpractice and Its Reform; Medical Conflicts of Interest Seminars; Civil Disobedience
Professional Activities:
Current research analyzes the conflicts of interest and the medical professions in France, Japan and the United States. He has published in law, medical and policy journals on: 1) consumer protection in health care; 2) health care consumer voice and representation; 3) accountability in managed care; and 4) regulation of health care markets
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MEDICINE, MONEY AND MORALS: PHYSICIANS' CONFLICTS OF INTEREST (1993 )
Chapter 9: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest in HMOs and Hospitals, in CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (Roy Spece, Jr. and David Shimm and Allen Buchanan eds., 1996)
The Case for Public Ownership of Patient Data, 302 :1 J. AM. MED. ASS'N 86 (2009)
Malpractice Premiums in Massachusetts: A High-Risk State: 1975-2005, 27 :3 HEALTH AFFAIRS 835 (2008) (with Hak J. Chang, Melissa M. Ozaeta and Richard J. Omar)
Medical Commerce, Physician Entrepreneurialism, and Conflicts Of Interest, 16 CAMBRIDGE Q. HEALTHCARE ETHICS 387 (2007)
Malpractice Premiums and Physicians' Income: Perceptions of a Crisis Conflicts with Empirical Evidence, 25 :3 HEALTH AFFAIRS 750 (2006) (with Hak J. Chang and Jeffrey Clausen)
Financial Incentives for Doctors, 328 BMJ 1328 (2004)
The Dark Side of Medical Consumersim, 19 FRONTIERS IN HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT 31 (2003)
The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine, 26 J. HEALTH POL. POL'Y & L. 439 (2001)
Consumer Voice and Representation in Managed Healthcare, 34 J. HEALTH L. 223 (2001)
Physicians' Conflicts of Interest in Japan and the United States: Lessons for the United States, 25 J. HEALTH POL. POL'Y & L. 343 (2000)
Exit and Voice in American Health Care, 32 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 1041 (1999)
Drive-Through Delivery: Where Are the , 56 MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW 30 (1999) (with Tai-Seale and Gerard Wedig)
Backlash: As Prelude to Managing Managed Care, 24 J. HEALTH POL. POL'Y & L. 1115 (1999)
Conflicts of Interest and Accountability in Managed Care: The Aging of Medical Ethics, 46 J. AM. GERIATRICS SOC'Y 338 (1998)
The Neglected Remedy: Strengthening Consumer Voice in Managed Care, 34 THE AMERICAN PROSPECT 45 (1997)
Consumer Protection and Managed Care: The Need for Organized Consumers, 15 HEALTH AFFAIRS 110 (1996)
Consumer Protection and Managed Care: Issues, Reform Proposals, and Trade-Offs, 32 HOUS. L. REV. 1319 (1996)
Managed Care and the Elusive Quest for Accountable Health Care, 1 WIDENER L. SYMP. J. 65 (1996)
Managed Care and Consumer Protection: What are the Issues?, 26 SETON HALL L. REV. 1007 (1996)
Conflicts in Managed Care, 332 NEW ENG. J. MED. 604 (1995)
Strains in the Fiduciary Metaphor, 21 AM. J.L. & MED. 241 (1995)
Patient Accountability and Quality of Care: Lessons from Medical Consumerism and the Patients' Rights, Women's Health and Disability Rights Movements, 20 AM. J.L. & MED. 147 (1994)
Inside Information and Peer Review, 3 ETHICS & BEHAVIOR 135 (1993)
The Organized American Medical Profession's Response to Financial Conflicts of Interest: 1890-1992, 70 THE MILLBANK Q. 703 (1992)
Physicians' Conflicts of Interest: The Limitations of Disclosure, 321 NEW ENG. J. MED. 1405 (1989)
Commentary - Preventing AIDS: Self-Interest and Public Spirit, 4 AIDS & PUB. POL'Y J. 131 (1989)
Halfway Competitive Markets and Ineffective Regulation: The American Health Care System, 13 J. HEALTH POL. POL''Y & L. 323 (1988) (with Altman, Stuart H.)
Can Bargaining and Negotiation Change the Administrative Process?, 3 ENVTL. IMPACT ASSESSMENT REV. 373 (1982)
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Prof. Marc A. Rodwin
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 320-B
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617.573-8354
f. 617.305.3087
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