Public Health Heroes Awards Ceremony

Mark A. Rothstein is Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and the director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law at the University of Louisville Schol of Medicine. At the time of his Heroes award, he was the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston, which was established in 1978 and is consistently ranked as the best health law program in the country.

Professor Rothstein teaches and concentrates his research in the areas of genetics and the law, health legislation, occupational health law, and employment law. He is a leading authority on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic research, serving in this capacity as a consultant and adviser to the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Energy, United States Congress, National Conference of State Legislatures, and numerous other organizations.

Professor Rothstein, a graduate of Georgetown University School of Law, has written or edited 11 books and published over 100 articles. His most recent book is, Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era, published by Yale University Press in 1997.

Among his many honors, he received in 1997 the Jay Healey Award as the Health Law Teacher of the Year by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Award Presenter

Professor Rothstein was introduced by Patricia A. Buffler, Ph.D., M.P.H., the Kenneth Howard Kaiser & Marjorie Witherspoon Kaiser Endowed Chair of cancer epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the School's dean from 1991-1998. Internationally recognized for her epidemiological research on environmental determinants of disease, Professor Buffler is among a select few in the field who also looks at the policy implications of their findings.

	1999 National Hero Mark A. Rothstein Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law University of Louisville School of Medicine	Other 1999 Heroes International Carol Bellamy, J.D. Regional L. Martin Griffin, M.D., M.P.H. Organizational Glide Memorial United Methodist Church of San Francisco
1999 National Hero - Mark A. Rothstein Mark A. Rothstein is Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and the director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law at the University of Louisville Schol of Medicine. At the time of his Heroes award, he was the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston, which was established in 1978 and is consistently ranked as the best health law program in the country. Professor Rothstein teaches and concentrates his research in the areas of genetics and the law, health legislation, occupational health law, and employment law. He is a leading authority on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic research, serving in this capacity as a consultant and adviser to the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Energy, United States Congress, National Conference of State Legislatures, and numerous other organizations. Professor Rothstein, a graduate of Georgetown University School of Law, has written or edited 11 books and published over 100 articles. His most recent book is, Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era, published by Yale University Press in 1997. Among his many honors, he received in 1997 the Jay Healey Award as the Health Law Teacher of the Year by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Award Presenter Professor Rothstein was introduced by Patricia A. Buffler, Ph.D., M.P.H., the Kenneth Howard Kaiser & Marjorie Witherspoon Kaiser Endowed Chair of cancer epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the School's dean from 1991-1998. Internationally recognized for her epidemiological research on environmental determinants of disease, Professor Buffler is among a select few in the field who also looks at the policy implications of their findings.