We’re excited to introduce and welcome Efthimi Parasidis to our blogging community as a regular contributor.
Efthimi is a member of the Center for Health Law Studies and Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University. His scholarship examines regulation of medical products and human subjects research, the interplay between health law and intellectual property, and how health information technology can inform public health policy. He is currently serving as a co-principal investigator with researchers at the National Institutes of Health on a study that is analyzing compensation policies for research-related injuries. He is a member of the Law & Policy Workgroup of Missouri Health Connection, the entity responsible for creating Missouri’s health information exchange, and consults for the American College of Physicians on conflicts of interest in the medical and pharmaceutical industries. As a Fulbright Fellow, Efthimi researched legal and ethical issues related to medical informed consent policies and practices in Greece. He is a recipient of the Thompson Coburn Faculty Scholarship Award and the 2012 SEALS Call for Papers Award, and was recently selected as a Health Law Scholar by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Some of Efthimi’s representative works include:
- Justice and Beneficence in Military Medicine and Research, 73 Ohio State Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2012).
- Human Enhancement and Experimental Research in the Military, 44 Connecticut Law Review 1117 (2012).
- Patients Over Politics: Addressing Legislative Failure in the Regulation of Medical Products, 2011 Wisconsin Law Review 929 (2011).
- A Uniform Framework for Patent Eligibility, 85 Tulane Law Review 323 (2010).
Welcome, Efthimi!
