Stacey Tovino - Protecting Patients

This past summer, Dr. Stacey Tovino wrote three new law review articles. In Going Rogue: Mobile Research Applications and the Right to Privacy, Dr. Tovino examines the privacy implications of mobile application-mediated research conducted by independent scientists, citizen scientists, and patient researchers. In Big Health Data: Velocity, Volume, and Variety, Dr. Tovino assesses whether amendments to state identity theft and breach notification laws could help protect big health data. In Fraud, Abuse, and Opioids, Dr. Tovino explores the use of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act to combat the opioid crisis.

This academic year, Dr. Tovino serves as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, Secretary of the AALS Section on Law and the Humanities, Executive Committee Member of the AALS Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care, and Planning Committee Member of the 2018 ClassCrits Conference. Dr. Tovino also begins a two-year term as a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Program Committee. Together with faculty and administrators at the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, and Boston University, Dr. Tovino serves as a research team member on a Greenwall Foundation grant investigating public attitudes regarding grateful patient fundraising. Dr. Tovino also serves as a research author on an NIH grant investigating the ethical, legal, and social implications of mobile-application mediated research. Later this academic year, Dr. Tovino will give invited talks at Yale Law School (with Dr. Wei Li), University of Florida Levin College of Law, Kansas University School of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law, Creighton University School of Law, Nova Southeastern University School of Law, the federal Department of Health and Human Services, and the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.