Mark A. Rothstein holds the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and is the Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville.  He has appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine and at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.  

Professor Rothstein is a leading authority on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics, privacy, health policy, and employment law.  He is Chair of the Privacy and Confidentiality Subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the federal advisory committee that advises Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on health information policy, including the privacy regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).  He is also a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Directors of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. 

He is the author or editor of numerous books.  His latest book, Genetics and Life Insurance: Medical Underwriting and Social Policy, was published in April 2004 by The MIT Press.