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BARRY
R. FURROW
Director of Health Law Program
Professor of Law
Email: Barry.R.Furrow@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4706
Office: Earle Mack School of Law, Room 353
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Education
J.D. Harvard Law School
A.B. Harvard College
Barry Furrow is a
pioneer in the field of health law. He was the lead author
of the 1987 casebook, “Health Law — Cases,
Materials and Problems,” which was the first to address
the topic and is now in its 6th edition. He is also co-author
of the treatise, “Health Law,” which the U.S. Supreme
Court has cited three times.
Professor Furrow earned
his J.D. at Harvard Law School before clerking with the Superior
Court of Massachusetts and handling
civil litigation and health-law cases as an associate with the
Boston firm, Palmer & Dodge.
The veteran legal
educator came to Drexel from Widener University School of Law,
where he founded the Health Law Institute and
earned the Jay Healey Distinguished Health Law Teaching Award
from the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. He also
served as interim Dean and Dean of the faculty at Widener University
School of Law. Previously, Professor Furrow directed the Health
Law Center at the University of Detroit School of Law, where
he also served as a full-time faculty member. He has also held
full-time faculty posts at American University’s Washington
College of Law and at George Mason University School of Law.
His experience also includes teaching stints in the University
of Michigan Law School and School of Public Health and the University
of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill. He currently
holds an adjunct teaching position at the University of the Sciences
in Philadelphia and is an associate of the Center for Bioethics
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Barry Furrow’s
expertise spans a wide array of health-related topics, including
health care policy, regulation and finance,
patient safety, patient privacy, mental health, provider accountability,
medical ethics and bioethics, and legal issues of pain management.
He has written more than three dozen law review articles on state
and federal regulation of medical errors and patient safety,
pain management, sports medicine, tort reform, medical privacy,
and regulation of scientific research. His articles have appeared
in publications including the University of Pennsylvania Law
Review, Duke Law Journal and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil
Liberties Law Review.
Professor Furrow is an editorial board member and former editor-in-chief
of Law, Medicine & Health Care.
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