Member Spotlight: Mark Rothstein In this day of instant information and portable technology, it is no wonder that the health care community is trending towards Electronic Health Records. This evolving concept has been the topic of many articles and books, but ASLME member Mark Rothstein addresses the topic from a new angle in the next Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics symposium.
Rothstein, along with co-editor Melissa Goldstein, will guest edit the issue titled The Effects of Health Information Technology on the Physician-Patient Relationship.
“Few of the works dealing with EHRs have addressed the capacity of EHRs to change in profound ways the physician-patient relationship and the practice of medicine,” says Rothstein. “It has been my privilege to work with Melissa Goldstein and a group of distinguished authors to consider this issue from the perspective of physicians, patients, and the public.”
In addition to being a guest editor, Rothstein has authored 17 articles for the publication, written two articles for the American Journal of Law & Medicine, and has edited “Currents in Contemporary Ethics” for JLME since 2002. He has been active in supporting ASLME’s mission by serving on the Board of Directors for 5 years, including a one year term as Board President.
In addition to his work with ASLME, Rothstein is the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the Founding Director of its Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law.
From 1999 to 2008, he was the 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.
On top of his contributions to JLME and AJLM, Rothstein has also authored or edited 19 books and almost 200 articles. He earned his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and received his J.D. from Georgetown University.
