Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights

George J. Annas
Chair and William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University. Also, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences & Community Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
JD, MPH, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: bioethics, human rights, patient rights, genetics, health care regulation, health law, human experimentation, and regulation of science and technology.
sph.bu.edu/annasgj

Full-Time

Leonard H. Glantz
Professor. Also, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
JD, Boston University.
Areas of interest: patient rights, rights of children, constitutional aspects of public health law, reproductive rights, mental health law, and the legal aspects of AIDS.
sph.bu.edu/lglantz

Michael A. Grodin
Professor. Also, Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine. Senior Faculty at Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences.
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Areas of interest: bioethics, human rights and health, medicine, and the Holocaust, integrative medicine.
sph.bu.edu/grodin

Wendy K. Mariner
Edward R. Utley Professor. Also, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences & Community Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
JD, Columbia University; LLM, New York University; MPH, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: health insurance, ERISA; health risk regulation, information privacy biomedical research, emergency preparedness, and drug and vaccine policy.
sph.bu.edu/wmariner

Patricia A. Roche
Associate Professor.
JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center; MEd, Antioch University.
Areas of interest: patient rights, privacy, genetics, biomedical research, and legal and ethical aspects of geriatrics.
sph.bu.edu/pwroche

Part-Time

Susan M. Akram
Clinical Associate Professor. Also, Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law. Supervising Attorney, Boston University Civil Litigation Program.
JD, Georgetown University.

Joel J. Alpert
Professor Emeritus. Also, Chair and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences & Community Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Harvard Medical School.

Nicolas Argy
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Chair, Radiology, Cape Cod Hospital.
MD, Boston University; JD, Boston College.

Michael S. Baram
Professor. Also, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
LLB, Columbia University.

Sondra S. Crosby
Assistant Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, PharmD, University of Washington.

Joan Cole Densberger
Adjunct Associate Professor.
JD, Boston College; MPH, Boston University.

Emily A. Friedman
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writer.
BA, University of California, Berkeley.

Diane M. Geraghty Hall
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
JD, Suffolk University.

Barbara F. Katz
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Former General Counsel, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
JD, Boston University.

Seymour Lederberg
Adjunct Professor. Professor Emeritus of Medical Science, Brown University.
PhD, University of Illinois.

Frances H. Miller
Professor. Also, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. Professor of Health Care Management, Boston University School of Management.
JD, Boston University.

Alejandro Moreno
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Co-Founder, Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights, Boston Medical Center. Attending Physician, University of Texas at Austin.
MD, Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud; MPH, Boston University.

Samantha J. Morton
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Deputy Director, Family Advocacy Program, Boston Medical Center.
JD, University of Michigan.

Joseph A. Polak
Assistant Professor. University Chaplain and Director, Hillel House, Boston University. Chairman, Law Committee, Rabbinical Court of Justice of Massachusetts.
Rabbi, Rabbinical College of Canada; BA, Sir George Williams University.

William R. Rollins
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Law Offices of William R. Rollins and Associates.
JD, LLB, Boston College.