Robert Harrison, JD, LLM, DBE, FACHE, FAALM

Robert R. Harrison is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences.  He teaches courses in health care law, health care regulation, regulatory law, and professional ethics; directs the Colloquium in Law and Biomedical Sciences; and serves on the University Institutional Review Board.  A founding member of the regional health law firm Stilling and Harrison, he maintains a limited private practice with an emphasis on counseling and advising organizational and individual providers on regulatory issues in health care.  He is Vice Chair of the Utah Supreme Court Committee on Ethics and Discipline and a member of the Court’s Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct.

His academic interests focus on issues at the intersection of regulatory law and ethics in human subjects research, ethics in medical professionalism, and the ethics of international clinical research.  He is published in Critical Care Medicine, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Ethics and Human Research, and the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, among others.  He is a regular contributor to the Journal of Health Care Compliance and is currently at work on a book about unconsented experiments conducted by the United States Public Health Service in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948.

Dr. Harrison served for seven years on the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia-Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, was Senior Counsel at the Johns Hopkins Health System, and taught bioethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande School of Medicine, where he held an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine.  He is a past Chair of the Health Law Section of the Federal Bar Association, a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Legal Medicine.