Thomas Wm. Mayo
(July 1, 2024)
Southern Methodist University 214.768.3767
Dedman School of Law tmayo@smu.edu
Dallas, Texas https://tinyurl.com/yevgdf3g
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
August 1984 - present: Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Dean ad interim, May-August 2022
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, June 2021-May 2024
Professor, September 2017-present
Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2012-14
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, August 1992-August 1995
Associate Professor, September 1990-August 2017
Assistant Professor, August 1984-September 1990
Courses taught:
First-year
1. Civil Procedure (1984-90, 1996)
2. Constitutional Law I (1990-96, 2004-05)
3. Legislation & Regulation (2019-present)
4. Torts (2010-present)
Upper-level
5. Administrative Law (1998-2005)
6. Business Torts (1987-90)
7. Constitutional Law II (1990-96, 2004-05)
8. Election Law (Fall 2012)
9. Family Law (2000-03)
10. Federal Courts (1986-88)
11. First Amendment Seminar (team-taught, ca. 1990)
12. Land Use (1984-87)
13. Law and Medicine - Bioethics (1988-present)
14. Law and Medicine - Health Care Law (1988-present)
15. Law, Literature & Medicine (1992-present)
16. Legislation (1995-2005, 2014)
17. Nonprofit Organizations (2000-08)
18. Public Health Law & Ethics (2016-present)
September 1994 - present: University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
Professor (adj.), Department of Internal Medicine
Courses taught:
1. Law, Literature & Medicine (jointly with law school)
2. Ethics Facilitator in first- through fourth-year Colleges program
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Clinical Ethics in Medicine; Introduction to Clinical Medicine I & II (1990s & 2000s)
June 2005 – December 2010: Director, SMU Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility
OTHER LEGAL POSITIONS
February 1989 - present: Of Counsel, Haynes and Boone LLP, Dallas
September 1980 - August 1984: Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
June 1979 - September 1980: Judicial clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
August 1977 – June 1979: Associate, Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now Nixon Peabody),
Rochester, N.Y.
Bar admissions:
Texas, 2001
District of Columbia, 1980
New York, 1978
Supreme Court of the United States, 1983
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1983
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1988
OTHER POSITIONS
1998-2003: Poetry Columnist, Dallas Morning News
1971-1974: U.S. Army (Air Defense Artillery), honorable discharge
EDUCATION
Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York
J.D., magna cum laude, 1977
Editor-in-Chief, Syracuse Law Review, 1976-1977
Order of the Coif
Justinian Honor Society
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
B.A. (Philosophy), 1971
HONORS
Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor Award (2012-14) and University Academy of
Distinguished Teachers
for notable commitment to and achievements in fostering student learning
President's Associates Outstanding Faculty Award (2006-2007) to the tenured faculty member
who has sustained high achievement as a teacher and whose scholarship makes a meaningful
contribution to student learning
Outstanding University Faculty Volunteer Award, 1988-1989 (for community service)
Dedman School of Law Dr. Don M. Smart Award for Excellence in Teaching: 1986-1987, 1996-1997,
2013-2014.
Dedman School of Law Dr. Don M. Smart Prize for Faculty Supervision of Outstanding Directed
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Research: 1985-1986, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 2016-2017, 2019-2020, 2023-24
Distinguished Service Award, Health Law Section, State Bar of Texas, 2023
Dallas County Medical Society, Heath Award (for outstanding leadership and service to medicine
and to the community of Dallas), 2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
American Law Institute, elected 2012
Texas Bar Foundation (Sustaining Life Fellow)
Dallas Bar Foundation (Sustaining Life Fellow)
Association of American Law Schools (Fellow)
American Health Law Association, 1988-present
Inaugural class of Fellows, elected 2005
Fellows Coordinating Committee, 2015-19
Board of Directors, 1997-2003
Executive Committee and Secretary, 2001-03
Advisory Board, Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law, 2007-17
American Bar Association, 1977-present
American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
Health Law Section, 1988-present
Section on Science and Technology, 1988-present
Health Law Council, Health Law Section, State Bar of Texas, 1997-2020
Distinguished Service Award, 2023
Charter member, Exam Commission, Health Law Certification Examination, Texas
Board of Legal Specialization, 2001-07
Charter member, National Board of Advisors, Bureau of National Affairs' Health Law Reporter,
1991-2018
National Board of Editors, Health Care Law Monthly (Matthew Bender), 1995-2010
American Inns of Court, Master, 1992-present
William M. “Mac” Taylor Chapter
Executive Committee, 1992-2010
Secretary/Treasurer, 2001-05
President, 2005-06
Serjeants’ Inn, elected 2010
American College of Legal Medicine, 1998-present
American Society of Bioethics & Humanities, 1998 - present
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1988 - present
Academic Advisory Panel, Black’s Law Dictionary (8th & 9th eds., West 2004 & 2009)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
1. “Foreword: Cruzan and the ‘Right to Die’,” 73 SMU L. REV. 3 (2020)
2. “Foreword: “Collection: Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond,” 73 SMU L. REV. F. 23 (2020),
https://doi.org/10.25172/slrf.73.1.4
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3. “'To Shield Thee from Diseases of the World': The Past, Present, and Possible Future of
Immunization Policy," 13 J. HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES L. 3 (Feb. 2020) (co-authored)
4. “Brain Dead and Pregnant in Texas,” 14 AM. J. BIOETHICS 15 (2014)
5. “Tax-Exempt Hospitals: Renewed Focus on Indigent Care,” 4 J. HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES L. 140-
52 (2010)
6. “Health Care Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 63 SMU L. REV. 607-25 (2010) (co-authored)
7. “The Baby Doe Rules and Texas’s ‘Futility Law’ in the NICU,” 25 GEORGIA ST. UNIV. L. REV.
1003-17 (2009)
8. “Health Care Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 62 SMU L. REV. 1245-66 (2009) (co-authored)
9. “Three Ways of Looking at a Health Law and Literature Class,” 1 DREXEL L. REV. 512- 72
(2009) (co-authored)
10. "Active Surveillance Cultures and Contact Precautions for Control of Multidrug-Resistant
Organisms: Ethical Considerations," 47 J. CLIN. INFECT. DIS. 110-16 (2008) (co-authored)
11. “Managing and Reporting Community Incidents: Ethical Considerations,” 25 PED. INF. DIS. J.
937-38 (OCT. 2006)
12. “Getting Political with Science,” 13 SMU RESEARCH 21, 21 (2006)
13. “Medical Futility in the NICU: Hope for a Resolution,” 116 PEDIATRICS 1219 (2005) (co- authored)
14. “Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World,” 38 J. HEALTH L. 587-608 (2005)
15. “Health Insurance and Cardiac Transplantation: A Call for Reform,” 45 J AM. COLL. CARDIOLOGY
1388 (2005) (co-authored)
16. “Supreme Court to Decide Whether HMOs Can Be Sued for Negligent Treatment Decisions,” 8
MEALEY’S MANAGED CARE LIABILITY REP’T 14 (March 12, 2004)
17. “Commentary -- Changing Professional Values,” 22 PED. INFECT. DIS. J. 1096 (Dec. 2003) (invited
editorial)
18. “Health Care Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 56 SMU L. REV. 1767 (2003)
19. “Sex, Marriage, Medicine, and Law: ‘What Hope of Harmony’?,” 42 WASHBURN L.J. 269 (2003)
20. “Resolution of Futility by Due Process: Early Experience with the Texas Advance Directives Act,”
138 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 743 (May 6, 2003) (with Robert Fine, M.D.)
21. “U.S. Supreme Court to Review Kentucky’s ‘Any Willing Provider Law,’” 6 MEALEY’S MANAGED
CARE LIABILITY REP’T 1 (Sept. 27, 2002)
22. “Health Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 55 SMU L. REV. 1113 (2002)
23. “Health Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 53 SMU L. REV. 1101 (2000)
24. “The First Fifty Years: Health Law’s Greatest Hit,” 50 SYR. L. REV. 1261 (2000)
25. “Statutory Interpretation Symposium: Introduction,” 53 SMU L. REV. 3 (2000)
26. “Qui Tam on the Lam: Fifth Circuit Fires the First Salvo – Will the Supreme Court be Next?,”
MATTHEW BENDER HEALTH CARE LAW MONTHLY 3 (December 1999)
27. “Life-and-Death Decisions,” 75 TEXAS MEDICINE 64 (November 1999) (with Robert Fine, M.D.)
28. “Texas’ New Advance Directives Act,” 85 DALLAS MED. J. 397 (Sept. 1999)
29. “Health Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 52 SMU L. REV. 1259 (1999)
30. “Texas’ New Physician Collective-Bargaining Statute: Helping to Fatten Physicians’ Wallets and
Make Patients’ Leaner,” MATTHEW BENDER HEALTH CARE LAW MONTHLY 3 (Sept.1999) (with Jeff
King)
31. “Treatment alternatives for the dying patient: medical ethics and the law,” 11 BUMC PROCEEDINGS
175-82 (1998) (with Robert L. Fine, M.D.).
32. “Health Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 50 SMU L. REV. 1275 (1997) (with Max Maxwell)
33. “Forgoing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Legal and Ethical Considerations,” 11 NUTRITION IN
CLINICAL PRACTICE 254 (1996)
34. “Health Law,” Survey of Texas Law, 49 SMU L. REV. 1089 (1996)
35. "Nonfinancial Barriers to Access to Health Care: Introduction," 32 HOUS. L. REV. 1187 (1996)
36. "Medical Futility: A Comment," 82 J. MED. LICENSURE & DISCIPLINE 98 (1995)
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37. "The Medical Futility Police: Head 'Em Off at the Impasse," 9 TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE, LAW &
ETHICS 23 (1994)
38. "The Parkland Approach to Demands for 'Futile' Treatment," 5 HEC FORUM 35 (Jan. 1993) (with
John Z. Sadler, M.D.)
39. "Abortion and Speech: A Comment," 46 SMU L. REV. 309 (1992)
40. "Allocating health care resources: balancing the interests of the child and society," 10 PED. INFECT.
DIS. J. 175 (March 1991)
41. "Constitutionalizing the 'Right to Die'," 49 MD. L. REV. 103 (1990)
42. “Review Essay, Between Strangers: Surrogate Mothers, Expectant Fathers, & Brave New Babies,”
10 J. LEGAL MED. 385 (1989)
43. "Medical Decision Making During a Surrogate Pregnancy," 25 HOUSTON L. REV. 599 (1988)
44. “Book Review, Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia, by J.K. Mason & R.A. McCall-Smith, 22
INT'L LAW. 599 (1988)
45. "The Local Government Antitrust Act: A Comment on the Constitutional Questions," 50 J. AIR L. &
COMM. 805 (1985)
46. "Land Use Control," 1984 Survey of New York Law, 36 SYR. L. REV. 439 (1985)
47. "Land Use Control," 1983 Survey of New York Law, 35 SYR. L. REV. 485 (1984) (with R. Anderson).
48. "Land Use Control," 1981 Survey of New York Law, 33 SYR. L. REV. 401 (1982).
49. "Land Use Control," 1980 Survey of New York Law, 32 SYR. L. REV. 421 (1981).
50. "Land Use Control," 1979 Survey of New York Law, 31 SYR. L. REV. 371 (1980) (with R. Anderson).
51. "Exclusionary Zoning, Remedies, and the Expansive Role of the Court in Public Law Litigation," 31
SYR. L. REV. 755 (1980).
52. "Land Use Control," 1978 Survey of New York Law, 30 SYR. L. REV. 161 (1979) (with R. Anderson).
53. "Charles D. Breitel -- Judging in the Grand Style," 47 FORDHAM L. REV. 5 (1978).
54. Note, "Enforceability of Interest Arbitration Agreements under Section 301(a) of the Labor
Management Relations Act," 27 SYR. L. REV. 985 (1976)
Book Chapters:
55. “Using the Humanities to Explore Professionalism in Medical and Law Schools,” in ETHICS AT THE
HEART OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Kirk & Crespo, co-eds., 2020)
56. “Bioethics,” in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH LAW 559 (AHLA, 7th ed., 2018)
57. “Law, Ethics and Clinical Judgment,” Ch. 5 in RUDOLPH’S PEDIATRICS (23rd ed., 2018)
58. “Bioethics,” in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH LAW 515 (AHLA, 6th ed., 2014)
59. “Twyla Tharp Goes to Law School: On the Use of the Visual and Performing Arts in Professional
Education,” in BEYOND TEXT IN LEGAL EDUCATION – VOL. II: THE MORAL IMAGINATION AND
THE LEGAL LIFE (Ashgate Press, 2012)
60. “Futility: My Life,” in THE PICTURE OF HEALTH: MEDICAL ETHICS AND THE MOVIES 428-32 (H.
Colt, S. Quadrelli & L. Friedman, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press 2011)
61. “Bioethics,” in HEALTH LAW PRACTICE GUIDE 15:1-15:43 (Gosfield et al., eds., 3d ed. 2011)
62. “Bioethics,” in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH LAW 487-511 (AHLA, 5th ed., 2011)
63. “Bioethics,” in HEALTH LAW PRACTICE GUIDE 15:1-15:20 (Gosfield et al., eds., 2d ed. 2009)
64. "Bioethics," in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH LAW 407-28 (AHLA, 4th ed., 2008)
65. “Living Greatly in the Law: Three Lessons,” LAW, CULTURE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A
Liber Amicorum for Professor Roberto MacLean 292-94, CBE, Studies Series in International
Financial, Economic, and Technology Law (Vol. 8 2007: successor to The Yearbook of
International Financial and Economic Law)
66. “Bioethics,” in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH CARE LAW (AHLA, 2nd ed., 2004)
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67. Preface, THE BIG ROUNDUP: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY FROM COWBOYPOETRY.COM
(Margo Metegrano, ed. 2001) (winner of 2002 Academy of Western Artists' Buck Ramsey Best
Poetry Book Award)
68. “Ethical Aspects of Neurosurgical Practice,” in 4 TEXTBOOK OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY, ch. 326,
(Batjer & Loftus, eds., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002) (with Howard Morgan, M.D.)
69. “Bioethics,” in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH CARE LAW (AHLA, 2000)
70. "Determination of Death: Legal and Ethical Issues" (ch. 117), ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE
CARE, Levin & Morriss, eds. (2d ed. 1997)
71. "Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Care: Legal Issues" (ch. 119), ESSENTIALS OF
PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, Levin & Morriss, eds. (2d ed. 1997)
72. “Fifth Circuit,” SANCTIONS UNDER RULE 11 AND OTHER POWERS (ABA 2d ed. 1988) (covering
period from 1985-1987)
73. “Fifth Circuit,” SANCTIONS UNDER RULE 11 AND OTHER POWERS (ABA 1986) (covering period from
1983-1985)
Books
74. TELEMEDICINE: SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS, 207 pp. (AHLA 2007)
(co-authored)
75. STATE ILLEGAL REMUNERATION AND SELF-REFERRAL LAWS, National Health Lawyers Association
(NHLA 1996)
Op-eds and Misc.:
76. “Who Will Rule Medicaid After Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Care Center?,” J. HEALTH & LIFE
SCIENCES L. 1-4 (2015)
77. “Advance Directives, Due Process, and Medical Futility,” Ann Intern Med. 2004;140(5):404, In
Response (with Robert L. Fine, MD)
78. Op-ed piece, “Wit sets high bar for audiences,” Dallas Morning News, April 14, 2001, at 19A
79. “Bill won’t help ease pain for dying patients,” Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1998, at 37A (with
Bob Fine, M.D.)
80. "On Death and Living," 41 SMU MAGAZINE 15 (Winter 1993).
81. Op-ed piece, “Bill won’t help ease pain for dying patients,” Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1998, at
37A (with Bob Fine, M.D.)
82. Op-ed piece, "A tragedy that's legal but senseless," Dallas Morning News, December 28, 1992, at 11A
(commentary on McGann v. H & H Music Co.)
83. Op-ed piece, "Medical futility could be the next frontier in controversy over the 'right to die,'" D/FW
Health Care News, July 1992, at 12.
84. Op-ed piece, "Key ruling is overshadowed," Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1992, at 25A (commentary
on Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council)
85. Op-ed piece, "Answers to questions on living wills, directives," Dallas Morning News, December 15,
1991, at 4J (commentary on advance directives for health care)
86. Op-ed piece, "Cases show how -- and how not -- to ration health care," Dallas Morning News, March
17, 1991, at 4J (commentary on Oregon's rationing plan for Medicaid and the case of Helga Wanglie
in Minnesota)
87. Op-ed piece, "Court assured worst of both worlds in Cruzan decision," Dallas Morning News, July
16, 1990, at 9A (critique of Supreme Court's first right-to-die decision).
88. Op-ed piece, "Where the court may go from here," Dallas Morning News, July 10, 1989, at 13A (the
future of abortion cases after the Supreme Court's Webster decision).
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89. Op-ed piece, "Legislative proposal runs roughshod over medical consent," Dallas Morning News,
May 7, 1989, at 37A (with S. Steeg).
90. "Teacher, Scholar, Colleague, Friend," 55 J. AIR L. & COMM. v (1989).
91. "Are We Our Brothers' Keeper? Determining Access to Health Care in the 1990s," 39 SMU Magazine
19 (Spring 1989).
92. "Scarcity Amidst Plenty Creates New Problems for Law and Medicine," 21 The Brief 22 (1989).
93. "Pro Bono Clinic Opens in Dallas to Help Persons With AIDS," TEX. B.J. 478 (April 1989) (with S.
Fagin).
Poetry Columns (all in Dallas Morning News unless otherwise noted):
94. “Some winning works for poetry lovers,” December 21, 2003
95. “Confronting illness with a poet's pen,” November 9, 2003
96. “Healthcare Haiku,” AHLA Health Lawyers Weekly, May 2, 2003
97. “’Texas in Poetry 2’ heeds a calling that's sprawling,” April 20, 2003
98. “I'd say April is the coolest month,” April 20, 2003
99. “2002 exceptionally rich for poetry,” December 15, 2002
100. “Poems to tickle the funny bone,” April 7, 2002
101. “Holiday presents that will add the sound to poetry’s sense,” December 16, 2001
102. “Poetry lovers, let us celebrate independents,” October 21, 2001
103. “Plenty of guidebooks through poetic thickets,” August 26, 2001
104. “Billy Collins' muse is a spirit familiar to us all,” July 1, 2001
105. “Moving words inspire moving pictures,” April 29, 2001
106. “Learning the pleasant truth about cowboy poetry,” April 1, 2001
107. “A fine present for the present,” January 7, 2001
108. “Daily lives, deaths fuel creativity of poet laureate/funeral director,” December 3, 2000
109. “Poems rooted in Hispanic heritage,” October 1, 2000
110. “World Wide Web gives poets, poetry, room to grow,” July 30, 2000
111. “Poets revisit moments of revelation,” May 7, 2000
112. “Poets writing on poetry are last word in hybrid vigor,” April 23, 2000
113. “Meter runs on romances between rhyming couples,” February 27, 2000
114. “War and peace alike give rise to verse of first rank,” January 16, 2000
115. “New study focuses on the living power of poetry,” December 5, 1999
116. “There’s an art - a language art - to mathematics,” September 26, 1999
117. “Vacation no time to be averse to poetry’s charms,” June 27, 1999
118. “For poets and poetry, April is the kindest month,” April 25, 1999
119. “‘Tis love, ‘tis love that makes the rhymes go ‘round,” February 14, 1999
120. “Time for poetry lovers to stanza up and be counted,” January 24, 1999
121. “Popular poems find strength in numbers,” December 6, 1998
122. “Adair throws a curve with 'Beliefs and Blasphemies,'” September 6, 1998
123. “Powerful poems carry readers for beyond rhyme,” April 19, 1998
ADDRESSES, SPEECHES, PANEL PRESENTATIONS
National & International Conferences:
1. “Donation after Circulatory Death: A Lesson in How Not to Make Medico-Legal Policy,” Inaugural
Stuart Reuter Lecture, Annual Meeting, American College of Legal Medicine, February 28, 2014
2. “The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Small Businesses,” Annual Meeting, Society of
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Business Editors and Writers, Washington, DC, April 6, 2013
3. “Hot Topics in Bioethics,” Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, ABA Mid-Year
Meeting, Dallas, February 9, 2013
4. “The Texas Medical Futility Law,” National College of Probate Judges, 2012 Spring Meeting,
Tucson, May 4, 2012
5. “Twyla Tharp Goes to Law School: Incorporating Dance (and Painting and Sculpture) in a Course
on Professionalism,” Beyond Text, University of Edinburgh School of Law, Edinburgh, June 21,
2009
6. “Futile Care Debate and Baby Doe: Resolving difficult cases when further treatment may be
considered futile,” Georgia State Law Review Symposium, “The 25
th
Anniversary of the Baby
Doe Rules: Perspectives from the Fields of Law, Health Care, Ethics, and Disability Policy,”
Atlanta, February 13, 2009
7. “Ethical and Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Decision-Making,” American Health Lawyers
Association, Annual Hospitals and Health Systems Program, Phoenix, February 10, 2009
8. “Teaching Health Law Through Literature” panel, Association of Law. Medicine & Ethics Annual
Health Law Teachers Conference, Philadelphia, June 6, 2008
9. “The Texas Advance Directive Act: A Futile Law?,”Annual Meeting, Pediatric Academic
Societies, Honolulu, May 5, 2008
10. “Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Decision-making for Children with Neuromuscular
Disease,” 30th Annual Carrell-Krusen Neuromuscular Symposium, Dallas, February 20, 2008
11. Panelist, “Town Hall Meeting: Is Uncontrolled DCD An Untapped Resource for Those Waiting on
the List?,” Annual Meeting, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Dallas, June 15,
2007
12. "Treating Eating Disorders: The Ethical and Legal Thicket," 8th Annual Professional Symposium
for the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders, The Elisa Project, Dallas, April 20, 2007
13. Panelist, "Data Sharing and the Bioethics of Collaborative Genetic Research," NIH/National
Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Dallas, January 17-18, 2007
14. "Litigating Disputes Over Medical Treatment of Minors," Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys
Seminar, Dallas, November 11, 2006
15. Panelist, "Intro to Health Law and Medical Ethics," Health Journalism 2006: National Conference
of the Association of Health Care Journalists," Houston, March 17, 2006
16. "DNR, Futility, and the Future after Schiavo," national teleconference, Defense Research Institute,
January 31, 2006
17. "Bioethics: Ethical, Legal, and Medical Issues Implicated in End-of-Life Cases," Council of Appellate
Staff Attorneys Seminar, July 27, 2005, Dallas
18. "Ethical and Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Treatment in the Institutional Setting," Annual
Meeting, American Health Lawyers Association, San Diego, June 28, 2005
19. "They Were Never Wrong, The Old Masters," Duke University, Center for the Study of Medical
Ethics and Humanities: Beyond Measure: Accounting for Suffering in the Context of Illness, April
29, 2005, Durham
20. "Legal Ethics and Clinical Decision Making in a Technologically Advanced World," Health and
Hospital Systems Legal Institute, American Health Lawyers Association, Tucson, February 10,
2005
21. “Ethics and the Trauma Patient,” Keynote Address, General Opening Session, National Trauma
Conference, Association of Operating Room Nurses, October 31, 2004
22. "Bioethics," Fundamentals in Health Law Conference, American Health Lawyers Association,
Chicago, November 13, 2003
23. “What Every Operating Room Nurse Needs to Know: Ethical and Legal Considerations,” National
Congress, Association of Operating Room Nurses, Anaheim, CA, April 21, 2002
24. “The Ethics of Emerging Surgical Technologies,” Pre-Congress, Association of Operating Room
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Nurses National Convention, Anaheim, CA, April 20, 2002
25. "Biotechnology: What Every Health Lawyer Needs to Know," Annual Meeting, American Health
Lawyers Association, Orlando, June 18 & 20, 2001
26. “Ethical Issues Related to the Use of New Technology,” 48th Association of Operating Room
Nurses Precongress, Dallas, March 10, 2001
27. “Developments in Biotechnology,” Annual Meeting, American Health Lawyers Association,
Washington, D.C., June 19, 2000
28. What Every Health Care Practitioner Needs to Know About Right to Die and Futility of Treatment
Decision-Making,” National CLE Conference, ABA Health Law Section, Vail, January 11, 2000
29. Panelist, Ethics and Innovations in Surgery, American College of Surgeons, Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, October 14, 1999
30. Advanced WWW Legal Research Workshop, Annual Meeting, American Health Lawyers
Association, Chicago, June 28-29, 1999
31. “Electronic Health Law Resources,” Annual Meeting and Update, American Health Lawyers
Association, San Diego, July 1, 1998
32. “Electronic Research Resources,” Health Law Update & Annual Meeting, National Health
Lawyers Association, Dallas, June 4, 1997
33. "State Initiative and Developments," National Health Lawyers Association Health Care Fraud and
Abuse Conference, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1995
34. "Illegal Remuneration and Self-Referral Bans: A 50-State Survey," National Health Lawyers
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 7-9, 1995
35. "Managed Care, Rehabilitation and Ethics," Managed Care Conference, National Association of
Rehabilitation Facilities, Dallas, May 16, 1992
36. "Advance Directives: Implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act," Association of
Operating Room Nurses, 39th Annual Congress, Dallas, March 18, 1992
37. "Silent Rationing: Balancing the Interests of the Child and Society," National Pediatric Infectious
Disease Seminar, New Orleans, April 19, 21, 1990
38. "Rule 11 Sanctions: A Lawyer's Nightmare," American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Fall
Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1988
Regional and Statewide Conferences:
39. “Medical Ethics in a Time of Pandemic,” George W. Bush Presidential Library, August 22, 2020,
Dallas
40. “The On-Going Legal, Ethical, and Medical Assault on Brain Death,” Keynote address, 4
th
Annual
“New Frontiers in Pediatric Neurology” Conference, UT Southwestern Medical Center, June 1, 2018
41. “Practical and Ethical Aspects of DCD,” Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Update 2013, UT-
Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, September 13, 2013
42. “Rehabbing the Affordable Care Act: Reconciling Rhetoric, Rationality, and Reality,” SMU
Corporate Counsel Symposium, Dallas, October 10, 2013
43. “Medical Futility in Texas: It Ain't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (And That Might Be a Good
Thing),” Pedi-Hope 2013, Texas Pediatric Palliative Care Consortium, Austin, August 9, 2013
44. “The Trustee’s Challenge: Mission, Money and Medicine,” Annual Meeting, Texas Healthcare
Trustees, Fort Worth, July 29, 2011
45.
“End-of-life Decisions: What Patients and Families Need to Know,” 43
rd
Annual Haltalin
Seminar, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, April 29, 2011
46. “Is Brain Death Dead?,” Annual Meeting, Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons, San
Antonio, TX, March 6, 2010
47. “Is There a Duty to Die in Texas?,” Dr. Kenneth Street Law Symposium, Austin College,
Sherman, TX, February 23, 2010
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48. “Introduction to End-of-Life Decision-making for Elder Law Attorneys,” Advanced Elder Law
Course, State Bar of Texas, March 6, 2008
49. “Ethical and Legal Aspects of Uncompensated Care,” 2008 Spring Orientation and Workshop:
Money, Mission, & Medicine, Texas Healthcare Trustees, Dallas, February 29, 2008
50. “The End-of-Life: Ethical Issues for Surgeons,” Annual Meeting, North Texas Chapter, American
College of Surgeons, Dallas, February 23, 2008
51. “The Texas Advance Directives Act: Legal and Ethical Update,” 2nd Annual End of Life Care
Conference, Legal Hospice of Texas, Plano, September 28, 2007
52. “Legislative and Case Law Update on Futility and Advanced Directives Law,” Annual Meeting,
State Bar of Texas, San Antonio, June 22, 2007
53. “Ethical and Legal Responsibilities of Medical Leaders and Hospital Trustees,” Inaugural William
Courtney Lecture, Scott & White Clinic, Temple, March 19, 2007
54. “End-of-Life Decision-making After the Schiavo Case,” Annual Meeting, Texas Society for
Social Work Leaders in Health Care, Dallas, October 27, 2006
55. "The Trustee's Challenge: Mission, Money, and Medicine," Annual Meeting, Texas Healthcare
Trustees, San Antonio, August 5, 2006
56. Panel discussion, “Responding to a pandemic: ethical and public health challenges,” UT-
Southwestern Medical School, Seventh Annual Critical Care Conference, Dallas, May 4, 2006
57. "End-of-Life Decision Making," Baylor University Medical Center, Great American Health Care
Challenge, Dallas, April 29, 2006
58. "Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World," 2005 Texas Health Law Conference, Texas Hospital
Association and State Bar of Texas, Austin, October 26, 2005
59. "Futility of Care," 37th Annual Haltalin Pediatric Seminar, UT Southwestern Medical School &
Department of Pediatrics, Irving, April 22, 2005
60. “End of Life Care: What Every Physician in Texas Needs to Know,” Texas Academy of Family
Physicians, Irving, October 4, 2003
61. "Issues in Clinical Ethics," Cardiac Update Symposium 2003, Cardiopulmonary Research Science
& Technology Institute, Las Colinas, September 6, 2003
62. “Human Tissue and Money,” 21st Annual Current Issues in Surgical Pathology, UT-
Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, May 16, 2002
63. “Out-of-Hospital DNR Orders in Schools,” Child Developmental Conference, Scottish Rite
Medical Center, Dallas, April 27, 2002 (with Nancy Dodge, M.D.)
64. Ethics Panel Discussion, “Current Topics in General Surgery 2001,” UT-Southwestern
Medical
Center at Dallas, May 4, 2001
65. “Clinical Ethics,” 24th
Annual Conference in Women's Health Care, Dallas-Fort Worth, April 5,
2001
66. "Developments in Biotechnology," State Bar of Texas, Health Law Section, Annual Health Law
Conference, Austin, October 21, 2000
67. “Legal and Ethical Bases for Constraints on Medical Expenditures,” Annual Meeting, Texas
Pediatric Society, Dallas, September 23, 2000
68. “Legal Liability for Physicians and Managed Care Organizations,” September 23, 2000
69. “Osler in Wonderland: Pediatrics in a Managed Care Environment,” September 24, 2000
70. “Ethical Issues Related to Use of New Technology,” Nursing Update for Minimally Invasive
Surgery, UT-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, January 22, 2000
71. Advance Directives Workshop, "Human Dimensions in Cancer Care: Issues at the End of Life,”
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, June 5, 1999
72. “Pediatrics and Patient Confidentiality,” Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Haltalin
Lecture Series, March 19, 1999
73. Panel participant, Ethics in Surgery, Inaugural Sparkman Lecture, Department of Surgery,
University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School, October 14, 1998
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74. “End-of-Life Decision Making: Ethics and Law,” American Women’s Medical Association,
Dallas, September 19, 1998
75. “Transplantation Ethics,” Baylor University Medical Center, Transplantation ‘98, Dallas, May 1,
1998
76. Panelist, "Ethical Issues in Higher Education," National Higher Education Roundtable, Dallas,
March 28, 1998
77. Panelist, “Medical Technology and Ethics,” Second Annual University of Texas at Dallas/Health
Care Financing Administration Health Care Conference, Meeting the Health Care Needs of the 21st
Century, Dallas, March 18, 1998
78. “Defining a Framework for Ethical Decision Making,” Walking a Tightrope: Ethical Dilemmas in
Cancer Care, American Cancer Society, Dallas, June 20, 1997
79. “Legal and Ethical Issues in the Management of Geriatric Patients: Durable Powers of Attorney &
Living Wills,” Geriatrics Update for Primary Care Physicians: A Didactic & Skills Symposium,
UT-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas & Zale-Lipshy Hospital, Dallas, December 7, 1996
80. “Recent Developments at the Crossroads of Ethics and Law,” Annual Meeting, Texas Society of
Social Work Administrators in Health Care, Dallas, September 30, 1996
81. "Promises, Promises, Promises: Does Contract Trump Tort in a Managed Care Environment?",
Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Inaugural Symposium, "Ethical Aspects of
Managed Care," Dallas, February 23, 1996
82. Panelist, "A Good Death," Capital Area AIDS Legal Project Seminar, Austin, November 11, 1995
83. "Health Reform: Legal/Ethical Issues," Annual Educational Conference, Texas Chapter, Society
for Social Work Administrators in Health Care of the American Hospital Ass'n, Dallas, November
8, 1993
84. "Theatres of Medicine: Medicine on the Stage of Literature and the Law," Theatres of Medicine:
Medicine in the History and Imagination of the West, Higher Education Cultural Roundtable/Arts
and Humanities Council of Tulsa, October 23, 1993
85. "Ethics and Administration," Fifth Annual Healthcare Administrative Residents Forum, American
Hospital Association - Region 7, Irving, Texas, July 8, 1993
86. "Impact of Changes in the Health Care System Upon Transplantation," Barriers to Transplantation
Access: Ethical Considerations from a Southwestern Perspective, Dallas, May 1, 1993
87. "What is the Health of the American Dream? Health Care in America Today," 1992 Issues Forum
and Annual Meeting, American Jewish Congress, Southwest Region, Dallas, August 23, 1992
88. "Euthanasia," Southwest Society on Aging, 13th Annual Conference, San Antonio, September 16,
1991
89. "Pediatric Critical Care and the Right to Die," Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Pediatric
Critical Care -- State of the Art, Dallas, April 6, 1991
90. "Ethical Issues in Tissue and Organ Recovery and Transplantation," Southwest Organ Bank, 6th
Annual Nursing Seminar on Organ Recovery and Transplantation, Dallas, December 7, 1990
91. "Ethics in Healthcare," Texas Healthcare Financial Management Association 7
th
Annual Forum on
Current Healthcare Issues, Austin, October 25, 1990
92. "Update -- Legislative/Regulations," Texas Health Law Conference, "Hospital-Physician
Relationships," sponsored by Texas Bar Association, Texas Hospital Association, Texas Medical
Association, Austin, October 20, 1990
93. "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads," SMU Regional Councils of Alumni and Parents, New
York City, October 19, 1989
94. Washington, D.C., October 18, 1989
95. "Can Professionalism Survive Rule 11?", SMU Fifth Circuit Appellate Practice and Advocacy
Seminar, New Orleans, October 6, 1988
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Medical Grand Rounds:
96. “Medical Futility: Back to the Future? Or Déjà vu All Over Again?,” Annual Bioethics Grand
Rounds, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, November 26, 2013
97. “Physician Misconduct: Ethical and Legal Considerations,” Ethics Grand Rounds, UT-
Southwestern Medical School, February 9, 2010
98. “The Future of ‘Medical Futility’ in Texas After the Schiavo Case,” Grand Rounds, Department
of Pediatrics, Children’s Medical Center, May 14, 2008
99. "Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Decision-making for Patients with Neuromuscular
Disease," Carrell-Krusen Conference, UT-Southwestern Medical School, February 20, 2008
100. Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Grand Rounds, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, January 29,
2008
101. “The Future of End-of-Life Decision-making in Texas,” Department of Urology Grand Rounds,
UT-Southwestern Medical School, January 11, 2008
102. “Medical Futility and Texas Law,” Medical Ethics and Humanities Seminar, Department of
Neurology, UT-Southwestern Medical School, June 26, 2007
103. Grand Rounds, Neonatal Intensive Care Department, Parkland Memorial Hospital, June 14, 2007
104. “Legal and Ethical Aspects of Advance Directives,” Medical Humanities Consultation,
Department of Medical Humanities, Texas A&M Medical School, Salado, March 19, 2007
105. “Doing What . . . and for Whom? Navigating End-of-Life Decision-making,” Ethics Grand
Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School, January 10, 2006 (with Kathleen Delaney, M.D., and
John Sadler, M.D.)
106. "Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?," University of Arkansas Medical
Sciences College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, July 7, 2005, Little Rock
107. "Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?," University of Arkansas Medical
Sciences College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, July 8, 2005, Little Rock
108. "Genetics & Law: The Year in (P)Review," Clinical Genetics Grand Rounds, UT- Southwestern
Medical School at Dallas, May 5, 2005
109. "Medico-Legal Update," Neonatology Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School at
Dallas, June 9, 2005
110. “Ethics Consultation at Parkland, Baylor, and Children’s Medical Center,” Ethics Grand Rounds,
UT-Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, May 13, 2003 (with John Sadler, M.D., and Robert
Fine, M.D.)
111. “Genetic Testing and Screening,” Grand Rounds, Department of Cardiology, UT-Southwestern
Medical School at Dallas, May 17, 2002
112. Neurosurgery Visiting Professor Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School, Dallas,
December 8, 2000
113. “Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?,” Ethics Rounds, Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, May 25, 2000
114. “The Court-Ordered Involuntary Patient: A Guide for Dallas Clinicians,” Parkland/UT-
Southwestern Medical School Ethics Grand Rounds, Dallas, April 11, 2000 (with John Sadler,
M.D.)
115. “End-of-Life Decision Making: The Promise and Perils of Hospital Ethics Committees,” Grand
Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, March 15, 2000
116. “An Ethical and Legal Examination of Treatment Options at the End of Life,” Grand Rounds,
Department of Internal Medicine, UT-Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, June 17, 1999
117. Panelist, Grand Rounds, Department of Surgery, University of Texas – Southwestern Medical
School, Dallas, April 8, 1998
118. “Treatment Alternatives at the End of Life: Medical Ethics and Law,” Medical Ethics Grand
Rounds, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, March 31, 1998 (with Robert L. Fine, M.D.)
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Other addresses and panels:
119. “The Science, Ethics, and Law of Gene Editing in a CRISPR World,” Joint meeting of Health Law
Section and Science & Technology Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association, April 26, 2021
120. “To Die or Not to Die: The Meaning of Death and Dying in a Culture of Choice,” SMU Ethics
Colloquy, March 31, 2021
121. “Updated Mass Critical Care Guidelines for Hospital & ICU Triage: A Response to the COVID-19
Pandemic,” Parkland Hospital and Health System, Dallas, Dec. 17, 2020
122. “The Irrelevance of Death,” Maguire Center Public Scholar Lecture, October 18, 2015, Dallas
123. “Medical Futility in Texas,” Academic Provider Clinical Lecture Series, UT- Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas, September 17, 2013
124. “Ethics Consultations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Doctors Hospital, Dallas, August 27,
2013
125. “Ethics Consultations – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Denton Regional Medical Center,
Denton, TX, June 5, 2013
126. “Donation after Cardiac Death and the ‘Dead Donor Rule’,” Dallas Bar Association, June 20,
2012
127. “The Future of the Affordable Care Act,” UT-Southwestern Medical School, July 11, 2012
128. “Ethical Issues in Pediatrics,” UT-Southwestern Medical School Pediatrics Interest Group,
December 7, 2011
129. “Health Care in [the Supreme] Court: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Trial,”
UT-Southwestern Medical School, November 15, 2011
130. Neonatal Intensive Care In-Service, Parkland Memorial Hospital, November 3, 2011
131. “Is There a Duty to Die in Texas?,” University of Texas at Dallas, March 29, 2011
132. “Advance Directives: Crossing the T’s, Dotting the I’s, and Minding your P’s & Q’s,” The Senior
Source, Dallas, January 5, 2011
133. “Professionalism & Poetry,” Intersections: Literature + Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital & SMU, Dallas, October 15, 2010
134. “National Health Insurance: Prospects & Pressure Points,” UT-Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas, July 28, 2009
135. “Death & Dying: Ethics & Law,” Leadership Dallas, Dallas Chamber of Commerce, March 6,
2009
136. “Religion, Conscience & Controversial Clinical Practices,” Dallas Internists’ Club, April 24, 2008
137. “An Introduction to End-of-Life Decisions for Probate and Estate Lawyers,” Dallas Bar
Association, Probate, Estate, and Trust Section, January 22, 2008
138. "End-of-Life Decision-making in Texas after the Schiavo Case," CSI Dallas: Social Workers in
Health Care/Annual Social Work Conference, Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, September 21, 2007
139. “Medical Futility at End of Life,” Dallas Internists’ Club, UT-Southwestern Medical Center, May
3, 2007
140. "Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices," Ethics Discussion Forum, Children's
Medical Center of Dallas, April 4, 2007
141. “Medical Privacy: DOA?,” The Institute for the Humanities at Salado, Salado (TX), March 18,
2007
142. “Mission, Money, and Medicine,” Leadership Dallas Healthcare Program, March 2, 2007
143. “Medical Futility at End of Life,” Hermann Memorial Hospital, Beaumont, Texas, February 1,
2007
144. “Ethics of Clinical Decision Making Under Extreme Conditions: Lessons from Hurricane
Katrina,” Children’s Medical Center Dallas, January 4, 2007 (with Robert Bash, M.D.)
145. "’Doing What . . . And for Whom?,’ Navigating End-of-Life Decision-Making,” Parkland Nursing
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Leadership Academy, Dallas, December 11, 2006 (with John Sadler, M.D., and Katherine
Delaney, M.D.)
146. “Medical Futility,” Parkland Memorial Hospital Leadership Breakfast, Dallas, November 9, 2006
(with John Sadler, M.D.)
147. “Anatomy of an Ethics Consult,” Ethics Discussion Forum, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas,
November 2, 2006
148. Lecture, “Public Policy and Research in Science and Medicine,” in Regulatory and Public Policy
Considerations in Research (BSCI 520304), UT-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, August
8, 2006
149. "Darwin, Intelligent Design, and Mr. Jefferson's Wall," Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture,
"The Meaning & Value of Life: Evolutionary Biology and Intelligent Design," March 22 & 29 and
April 5, 2006
150. “The Ethics of Espionage,” Prestonwood Rotary Club, Dallas, March 30, 2006
151. “Ethical Aspects of Brain Death,” Ethics Discussion Forum, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas,
March 1, 2006
152. “Privacy, the Constitution, and Your Health,” panelist, Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Fort
Worth, February 27, 2006
153. “Medicine, Literature & Ethics,” Ethics Discussion Forum, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas,
January 4, 2006
154. "Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World," invited lecture, Texas Tech University School of
Law, Lubbock, October 25, 2005
155. “Advance Directives: Problems and Solutions,” Tarrant County Academy of Medicine, Fort Worth,
October 28, 2004
156. "Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?”, UT-Southwestern/Dallas Institute
of Humanities and Culture, Dallas, May 12, 2004
157. “Ethics Consultations in the PICU,” Making A World of Difference, Children’s Medical Center
Dallas, May 14, 2004
158. “Three Problems in Contemporary Bioethics,” SMU Godbey Lecture Series, Dallas, March 30,
April 6 & 13, 2004
159. "Ethical Dilemmas in the NICU," North Texas Association of Neonatal Nurses, Dallas, December
4, 2003
160. "End of Life Care: What Every Physician in Texas Needs to Know," Annual Medical Staff
Meeting, Plaza Medical Center, Fort Worth, December 3, 2003
161. “Ethical Dilemmas in the NICU,” Past, Present and Future: A Celebration of a Century of
Neonatal Care, Dallas, October 10, 2003
162. "Baby Doe in the NICU," Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas, August 12, 2003
163. "Medical Ethics & Literature," Ethics Discussion Forum, Children's Medical Center of Dallas,
March 4, 2003
164. Panelist, “Hospital Ethics Committees,” North Texas Association for Ethics, Character & Values,
February 21, 2003
165. Ethics panel, Specialty Pediatrics for the Primary Care Physician, Medical City Dallas Hospital &
North Texas Hospital for Children, Dallas, October 26, 2002
166. "Human Research Protection and Minors: An Overview," Children's Medical Center Bioethics
Forum, Dallas, September 3, 2002 (with Leah Hurley, Esq.)
167. “Baby Doe in the NICU,” Neonatal/Perinatal Conference, Parkland Memorial Hospital/UT-
Southwestern Medical School, May 23, 2002
168. “Wit and the Chronically Ill Patient,” St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, April 17,
2002
169. “Baby Doe in the ICU,” Children’s Medical Center Bioethics Discussion Group, Dallas, April 11,
2002
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170. “Baby Doe in the NICU,” UT-Southwestern Medical Center, Program in Ethics in Science and
Medicine, Works-in-Progress Series, Dallas, March 8, 2002
171. "Spiritual Challenges in Chronic Illness," St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas,
December 9, 2001
172. “End-of-Life Decision Making,” RHD Memorial Medical Center, Dallas, December 4, 2001
173. Ethics panel, Dallas-Fort Worth Pediatrics Society, Dallas, October 12, 2001
174. “Ethics of Managed Care,” Managed Care Association, Dallas, October 4, 2001
175. “Stem Cell Research,” UT-Southwestern Medical School, Clinical Ethics in Medicine, September
18, 2001
176. “Confidentiality,” NICU Ethics Rounds, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, August 12 &
19, 2001
177. “Law, Literature & Medicine: Teaching Poetry to Professionals for Fun and Profit, The United
Methodist Church, North Texas Annual Conference, Plano, June 5, 2001
178. “Wit: In Perspective,” Dallas Theater Center, April 22, 2001
179. “The Texas Advance Directive Act of 1999,” Vencor Hospitals' Annual Medical Staff Meeting,
Arlington, Texas, December 7, 2000
180. “Hippocrates, Meet Your New Business Manager: Old-Time Ethics in a Dot-Com World,” Ethics
2000, Presbyterian Hospital, Plano, November 30, 2000
181. “Medical Futility: Ethical and Legal Aspects,” Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Rockport, Maine,
November 10, 2000
182. “Biotechnology,” Dallas Assembly (panel), September 19, 2000
183. KERA-TV Town Hall Meeting, “On Our Own Terms,” Dallas, August 31, 2000
184. “Research Ethics and Law,” Clinical Research Managers’ In-service, UT-Southwestern Medical
Center, Dallas, July 12, 2000
185. “Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?,” Baylor University Medical Center
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Dallas, July 8, 2000
186. “The 1999 Texas Advance Directive Law,” Arlington Memorial Hospital Medical Staff Annual
Meeting, Arlington, Texas, May 23, 2000
187. “Poetic Expression of Loss & Healing: Literature, Theology & Medicine,” St. Michael & All
Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, March 26/April 2/April 9, 2000
188. “Lawyers Under Siege,” Federal/State Interagency Health Care Task Force, Dallas, October 21,
1999
189. “Baby Doe in the NICU,” Baylor University Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Rounds,
October 7, 1999
190. “Physician-Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia,” Presbyterian Healthcare System Ethics
Committees, September 14, 1999
191. “Advance Directives in Texas After S.B. 1260,” Presbyterian Healthcare System Ethics
Committees, August 10, 1999
192. Panelist, Emergency Department Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School, June 1, 1999,
Dallas
193. “Baby Doe in the NICU,” Neonatal Intensive Care Unit/Obstetrics in-service, Parkland Memorial
Hospital, May 13, 1999, Dallas
194. “Law, Literature & Medicine,” Dallas Hall Society, SMU, Dallas, April 9, 1999
195. Panelist, “Pediatric Ethics,” Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas, April 6, 1999
196. “The Ethics of Human Growth Hormone Use,” Scott & White Foundation, Austin, February 6,
1999
197. “Medicine & Literature;” “Law & Literature;” “Law, Literature & Medicine,” Godbey Lectures,
January 25, February 1 & 8, 1999, Dallas
198. “Ethics and Law at the End of Life,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, November 16, 1998
199. “Genetic Risk Assessment and Counseling: Legal and Ethical Issues,” University of Texas -
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Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, November 14, 1998
200. “Advance Directives and Medical Futility,” Social Work in-service, Children’s Medical Center,
Dallas, October 16, 1998
201. “Not Just Cloning Around Anymore,” Godbey Lecture Series, SMU, Dallas, March 23, 1998
202. “Death and Dying: Getting the Paperwork Right,” Godbey Lecture Series, SMU, Dallas, March 16,
1998
203. “Treatment Decisions at the End of Life: Ethical and Legal Issues,” Arlington Memorial Hospital
Medical Staff In-Service, Arlington, March 14, 1998
204. “Physician-assisted Suicide: The View from the United States,” University of Edinburgh, Faculty
of Law, October 16, 1997
205. “Thoughts on Death and Dying and Law and Ethics,” Conference on Death and Dying, Isthmus
Institute, Dallas, June 6, 1997
206. “Ethical and Legal Considerations in Palliative Care,” Pediatric Intensive Care In-Service,
Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, March 27, 1997
207. “End-of-Life Decision Making,” Presbyterian Healthcare System, Dallas, March 12, 1997
208. “Medical Ethics of Aging,” panelist, Temple Shalom, Dallas, March 1, 1997
209. “Health-Care Reform,” First United Methodist Church of Richardson, Richardson, February 2,
1997
210. “Medico-Legal Aspects of Decisions at the End of Life,” Medical Staff In-Service, Arlington
Memorial Hospital, Arlington, January 11, 1997
211. “Law, Literature & Medicine,” Medical Humanities Society, University Texas, Southwestern
Medical School, Dallas, November 22, 1996
212. “Alzheimer’s and Ethics: Making Decisions,” Alzheimer’s Caregiving Conference for the Family
and the Professional, Alzheimer’s Association, Dallas Chapter, November 15, 1996
213. “Advance Directives,” Doctors Hospital Community In-Service, Dallas, November 9, 1996
214. “Medical Futility: The New Right to Die," SMU Godbey Lecture Series, Dallas, March 4, 1996
215. "Conflicts of Interest," Dallas Retina Associates, Dallas, January 10, 1996
216. "Medical Futility: The New Right to Die," SMU Town & Gown, Dallas, November 20, 1995
217. "Age-Based Rationing of Health Care: Legal Considerations," St. Paul Medical Center Conference
on Age-Based Rationing, Dallas, October 25, 1995
218. "Advance Directives: Beyond the Basics," Fall Medical Staff Meeting, RHD Memorial Medical
Center, Dallas, October 17, 1995
219. Panelist, "The Human Genome Project: Legal, Ethical, and Medical Issues," 10
th
Annual
Conference of the Professions, Dallas, October 17, 1995
220. "Federal Medical Liability Claims," The Cutting Edge of Medical Liability, SMU CLE
Conference, Dallas, September 7, 1995
221. "The Legal Issues in Medical Futility," Symposium on Medical Futility, Charlestown (W.Va.)
Area Medical Center, March 8, 1995
222. "Medical Futility," Yale Club of Dallas, March 3, 1995
223. "Legal Aspects of Surrogacy," Baylor University Medical Center, Social Work Department In-
Service, Dallas, September 20, 1994
224. "Withdrawing Nutrition and Hydration," Parkland Hospital Nursing Education Ethics Forum,
Dallas, June 3, 1994
225. "Health Care Reform: How Will It Affect You?", forum moderator, co-sponsored by civic and
health-care organizations, Dallas, June 2, 1994
226. "Health Care Reform," The Caduceus Society, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, May 12,
1994
227. "End-of Life Decision Making and Children," Association for the Care of Children's Health --
Ethics Mini-Conference, Dallas, April 25, 1994
228. "Medical Futility and the Right to Die," Hemlock Society of North Texas, Dallas, April 10, 1994
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229. "Health Care Reform: Some Ethical and Legal Considerations," Social Work Department In-
Service Training, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, March 29, 1994
230. "A Case for Change in National Health Care," Ethical Choices: Reforming the Health Care
System, Church Women United, Dallas, January 26, 1994
231. "Litigating the Medical Malpractice Case," program chair, SMU Continuing Legal Education,
Dallas, November 18-19, 1993
232. "Ethics in Practice," Dallas Chapter, National Association of Nursing Associates and Practitioners,
Dallas, November 17, 1993
233. "Health Care Reform and the Elderly," Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas, Dallas, November 11,
1993
234. "Hillary's Heresy: Health Care Reform in the 1990s," SMU Alumni Reunion/Homecoming
Weekend, Dallas, November 5, 1993
235. "Legal-Historical Context for Advance Directives," Advocates' Training Program, Choice In
Dying, Dallas, September 11, 1993
236. "Legal Protection of Reproductive Liberty," The Religious Roots of Reproductive Freedom,
Planned Parenthood of Northeast Texas, Inc., Dallas, April 29, 1993
237. "Advance Directives," Elderlaw: Preparing for the Legal Challenges of an Aging Society, Texoma
Council of Governments, Sherman, Texas, April 16, 1993
238. "Euthanasia and Euphemisms," First Unitarian-Universalist Church, Dallas, March 21, 1993
239. "Emerging Ethical Issues in Health Care Management: Resource Utilization in the 1990s,"
Medical Staff Ethics Rounds, Memorial Hospital, Midland, Texas, March 19, 1993
240. "Ethics," Critical Care and Trauma Nurse Internship Program, Parkland Memorial Hospital,
Dallas, March 11, 1993
241. "Working with the Law," Decisions Near the End of Life, Baylor University Medical Center,
Dallas, January 22, 1993
242. Speakers' Bureau Training Program, Choice in Dying, Dallas, December 6, 1992
243. "Physician-Assisted Dying," Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society, SMU, Dallas,
December 2, 1992
244. "The Ethics of Health Care Reform," Communities Foundation of Texas, Dallas, November 17,
1992
245. "Medical Malpractice and Its Effect on Health Care," The Caduceus Society, Baylor Medical
Foundation, Dallas, November 12, 1992
246. "Euthanasia: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Go from Here?", Dallas Area Gerontological
Society, Dallas, September 25, 1992
247. "Doctor Deals -- Pitfalls to Avoid," 1992 Seminar of Tax and Business Planning for Professionals
and Executives -- Asset Protection, Fort Worth (July 23, 1992)
248. Ibid, Dallas (July 30, 1992)
249. Ibid, San Antonio (August 27, 1992)
250. "AIDS and the Physician: A Look at its Ethical and Legal Implications in 1992," Pediatric Society
of Greater Dallas, June 17, 1992
251. "Critical Condition: Healthcare Issues in the '92 Campaign," SMU Regional Council of Alumni
and Parents, Denver, April 16, 1992
252. "Ethical Aspects of Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation and Phase I Drug Studies," Children’s
Medical Center & University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, April 9, 1992
253. "Issues in Election 1992 -- Health Care," SMU University Lecture Series, Dallas, April 1, 1992
254. "The 'Gag Rule': Privacy and the Patient-Physician Relationship," Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine,
Special Lecture Series, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, January 30,
1992
255. "Second Symposium on Advance Directives," Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, Dallas,
December 4, 1991
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256. "The New Responsibilities and Liabilities of Quality Professionals and Managers," Southwestern
Regional Seminar, "The New GMP Regulations for Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostics,"
Dallas, December 3, 1991
257. "The Cruzan Case and the 'Right to Die,'" Parkland Memorial Hospital, Nursing Education
Department, Dallas, November 22, 1991
258. "The Battle Over Abortion: Seeking Common Ground in a Divided Nation," SMU Young Alumni
Associates, National Issues Forum, Dallas, September 9, 1991
259. "First Symposium on Advance Directives," Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, Dallas, July 17,
1991
260. "Medicine, Law, and Literature," SMU Golden Mustangs Reunion Class Address, Dallas, May 24,
1991
261. "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads," SMU Regional Council of Alumni and Parents, Houston,
March 5, 1991
262. "Ethics and Law," Alliance of Ethics Committees of Dallas/Fort Worth & Dallas/Fort Worth
Hospital Council, Conference on Rationing Health Care, Dallas, January 30, 1991
263. "Euthanasia," Northaven United Methodist Church, Dallas, January 13, 1991
264. "Pediatric Care and The Right to Die," Children's Medical Center of Dallas, The Grieving Process:
Effects on Children, Families, and Professionals, Dallas, January 10, 1991
265. "The Right to Die: A Legal Analysis," Episcopal Diocese Conference on the Right to Live and
Die, Dallas, December 8, 1990
266. "Can Law Protect Ethical Pluralism?", American Medical Student Association Conference on
Reproductive Rights, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Nov. 3, 1990
267. "Active Euthanasia," Baylor University Medical Center Media Symposium, Dallas, October 19,
1990
268. Panelist, "Before Their Time: Disturbing Trends in Elderly Suicide," The Dallas Elderly Suicide
Consortium, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, October 19, 1990
269. "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads," SMU Pre-Law and Pre-Med Honor Societies, Dallas, Oct.
10, 1990
270. "Infection Control -- Existing Requirements," "Liability Issues," HIV and Hepatitis B in the
Dental Office -- Living Under the New OSHA Rules, Dallas, September 21, 1990
271. "Ethical and Legal Aspects of Organ and Tissue Transplantation," Nurse Advisory Council,
Transplant Services Center, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, September 19, 1990
272. "Tax-Exemption and Fraud and Abuse: Selected Issues," Presbyterian Healthcare System
Management Council In-Service, Dallas, August 30, 1990
273. "Nancy Beth Cruzan and Baby L," Social Workers' In-Service, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas,
August 7, 1990
274. SMU-Dallas Lecture Series, "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads: Opportunities and Obligations
for the 1990s," February 1, 1990
275. "AIDS and the Law," speaker and organizer, Dallas County Bar Association, October 26, 1989
276. "Professionalism and Dentistry: Ethical and Legal Concerns," Dallas County Dental Society,
Annual "Eat and Learn" Banquet, April 11, 1989
277. "Ethics, Law and the Practice of Dentistry: Advertising and the Duty to Treat Persons with AIDS,"
Dallas County Dental Society, Oak Cliff Study Group, March 10, 1989
278. "AIDS and the Law," speaker and organizer, Dallas County Bar Association, February 28, 1989
279. Panelist and organizer, "AIDS: The Emerging Medical and Legal Issues," Dallas County Bar
Association, December 2, 1988
280. SMU Ethics Colloquy, "Medical Decision Making During a Surrogate Pregnancy," November 16,
1988
281. "Post-Employment Covenants Not to Compete," SMU Modern Trends in Business Torts
Litigation Seminar, Dallas, November 11, 1988
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282. "The Beginning of Life -- Ethical Considerations," The American Jewish Committee, Dallas
Chapter, July 26, 1988
283. "Recent Developments in the Law of Post-Employment Covenants Not to Compete," Dallas
County Bar Association, February 26, 1988
284. "Federal Jurisdiction and Venue," Federal Bar Association, Fort Worth Chapter, February 25,
1988
285. "Ethical and Legal Aspects of AIDS," Third Conference on the Professions, "AIDS, The Emerging
Crisis," January 20, 1988
286. University Distinguished Lecture Series (panelist), "Baby M and the Future," Southern Methodist
University, October 28, 1987
287. "Civil Procedure," SMU Course on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence, March 26, 1987
288. "Federal Jurisdiction and Venue," Federal Bar Association, Fort Worth Chapter, February 22,
1987
289. "Removal," SMU Advanced Civil Trial Short Course, March 13, 1986
290. "Federal Jurisdiction and Venue," Federal Bar Association, Fort Worth Chapter, January 23, 1986
291. "Federal Jurisdiction and Venue," Federal Bar Association, Dallas Chapter, February 21, 1985
EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES
Current:
1. Dallas County Medical Society/North Texas Policy Task Force, Triage Guidelines for Pandemic Flu,
2010-present
2. TMA/THA Advance Directive Act Task Force, 2006-present
3. Member, Advisory Committee, Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine, University of Texas -
Southwestern Medical Center, 1998-present
4. Conference of the Professions (SMU/Dedman School of Law, Perkins School of Theology, UT-
Southwestern Medical School, Dallas County Bar Association, Dallas County Medical Society),
Dallas; Planning Committee, 1988-present
Other:
1. Co-founder, Legal Hospice of Texas (originally Dallas Legal Hospice) (first pro bono legal aid clinic
in Texas for persons with AIDS and terminally ill patients); Vice-chair of the Board, 1988-1996
2. American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
3. Institutional Ethics Committee, Children’s Health (formerly Children’s Medical Center of Dallas);
member and co-chair, January 2001-July 2023
4. Institutional Ethics Committee, Parkland Hospital and Health System; member 1990-2024 and co-
chair, 2001-2023
5. Member, Institutional Ethics Committee, Baylor University Medical Center, 1992-2012
6. Member, Institutional Ethics Committee, RHD Memorial Medical Center, Dallas, 1994-2008
7. Member. Institutional Ethics Committee, Trinity Medical Center, Carrollton, 2002-2008
8. Member, Community Oversight Committee, Xenotransplantation (Transgenic Pig) Project, Baylor
Institute of Transplantation Sciences, 1997-2005
9. Member, Steering Committee & Chair, Ethics Committee of Community Advisory Board, Research
Protocol: Controlling Risk Factors for Atherosclerotic Heart Disease, UT- Southwestern Medical
School, 1999-2004
10. Member, Board of Trustees’ Breast Health Advisory Committee, Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation, 1999-2005
11. Member, Texas Department of Health Task Force on End of Life Issues in Long Term Care
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Settings, 1995
12. Member, Medical Advisory Committee, Breast Health Alliance of North Texas, 1997-1999
13. Member, Monthly Ethics Conference, Intensive Care Unit, Children's Medical Center of
Dallas, 1988-1995
14. Member, Governor’s Task Force to Revise Advance Directive Laws, 1998-1999 (76th Leg., S.B.
1260); Texas Advance Directives Coalition, 2002-2003 (78th Leg., S.B. 1320)
15. Facilitator, "Introduction to Clinical Medicine I," University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, Dallas, 1994-1995; senior facilitator, 1995- 99
16. Member, Steering Committee, Alliance of Hospital Ethics Committees of Greater Dallas, Dallas-
Fort Worth Hospital Council, 1989-1995
17. Member, Institutional Ethics Committee, Zale-Lipshy University Hospital, Dallas, 1998-2001
18. Member, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Texas Oncology Group, Dallas, 1992-1994
19. Discussion leader, First-year Medical Ethics Course, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 1991-1993
20. Member, Human Research Committee (IRB), Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, Texas, 1988-
1992
21. Member, Institutional Review Board, Nelson-Tebedo AIDS Clinic, Dallas, Texas, 1990-1991
22. Member, Kaiser-Permanente (North Texas Region) Institutional Ethics Committee, 1990-1991
23. Member, University of Texas – Southwestern Medical School, Medical Education and
Curriculum Committee, Ethics Subcommittee, 2002-2003
Appendix A
Media Appearances
Note: In January 2014, I gave approximately 30 live interviews, all on the same news topic, which
resulted in over 960 world-wide media appearances that month. Only the live interviews are listed
below.
International:
1. The Economist, 1/25/14
2. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1/9/14
3. BBC World Service Radio News, 1/9/14
4. El Pais, 1/8/14
5. Asian News International, 4/13/09
6. Hindustan Times, 4/13/09
7. Mirror (UK), 4/13/09
8. London Free Press, 1/2/99
National:
9. NPR, 5/10/22
10. Kaiser News Network, 5/11/22
11. USA Today, 9/09/16
12. “On Point,” NPR, 1/28/14
13. MSNBC, 1/27/14
14. “All Things Considered,” NPR, 1/23/14
15. CBS Evening News, 1/14/14
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16. Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN), 1/08/14
17. New York Times, 1/07/14, 1/23/00, 12/27/99, 12/21/88, 8/18/00 (letter), 4/18/00 (letter)
18. BioNews, 4/13/09
19. CNN Live, 3/23/05
20. CNN International, 3/23/05
21. Associated Press Newswires, 1/24/14, 3/22/05
22. Washington Post, 3/22/05, 1/9/14, 5/27/16
23. NBC “Today” show, 10/12/03
24. NBC Nightly News, 10/11/03
25. Medical Economics, 5/10/02
26. General Surgery News, August 7, 2001
27. Christian Science Monitor, 11/30/01
28. Modern Physician, 1/15/01
29. BNA Health Law Reporter, 1/04/2018, 1/05/17, 1/07/16, 1/08/15, 1/09/14, 1/10/13, 1/4/12,
10/21/10, 1/7/10, 1/3/08, 5/28/07,1/4/07, 9/28/06, 1/05/06, 1/13/05, 1/06/05, 1/1/04, 10/23/03,
1/02/03, 7/10/02, 2/1/02, 1/21/02, 1/03/02, 11/29/01, 9/20/01, 8/12/01, 1/4/01, 10/05/00, 5/4/00,
2/3/00, 1/6/00, 1/7/99,10/8/98, 1/1/98, 1/2/97, 1/4/96, 12/14/95, 8/17/95, 1/5/95
30. BNA Health Care Daily Report, 1/25/02
31. New England Journal of Medicine, 11/23/00
32. Scripps-Howard News Service, 4/11/00
33. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 9/22/00
34. Associated Press Newswires, 4/11/00
35. BNA Health Care Fraud Report, 5/17/00
36. BNA Health Insurance Report, 1/12/05, 1/14/04, 1/09/02, 5/10/00
37. American Health Line, 10/12/99, 6/28/99, 5/24/99
38. “Morning Edition,” NPR, 4/11/96
Regional and Local:
39. Seattle Times, 4/12/09, 3/20/05, 10/06/99
40. Baltimore Sun, 6/4/05
41. Sunday Gazette (Charleston, WV), 4/12/09
42. Virginia Pilot & Ledger-Star (Norfolk, VA), 4/12/09
43. Herald (Rock Hill, S.C.), 4/13/09
44. Press-Register (Mobile, AL), 6/23/07
45. Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), 6/21/07
46. Kansas City Star (MO), 5/16/06, 3/22/05
47. Cherry Hill Courier-Post (NJ), 1/8/06
48. Duluth News-Tribune (MN), 6/12/05
49. Alameda Times-Star (CA), 3/23/05
50. Argus (Fremont-Newark, CA), 3/23/05
51. San Mateo County Times (CA), 3/23/05
52. Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA), 3/23/05
53. Chicago Tribune, 3/22/05
54. Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/22/05
55. Miami Herald, 3/22/05
56. Orlando (FL) Sentinel, 3/22/05, 10/24/98, 10/11/98
57. Long Beach (CA) Press Telegram, 3/22/05
58. Belleville News Democrat (IL), 3/22/05
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59. Bucks County Courier Times, 3/22/05
60. Charlotte Observer (NC), 3/22/05
61. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Hill, CA), 3/22/05, 3/20/05
62. Louisville Courier Journal, 7/22/04
63. Knoxville News-Sentinel, 4/12/00
64. Chattanooga Times, 4/12/00
65. Springfield (Ill.) State Journal-Register, 4/12/200
66. Memphis Commercial Appeal, 4/12/00
67. Hartford Courant, 1/5/00, 10/10/99, 10/2/99
68. News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), 6/30/99
69. Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 6/30/99,
70. Sunday Gazette Mail (Charleston), 6/6/99, 9/20/98, 8/30/98
71. Buffalo News, 6/5/99
72. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, 12/23/98
73. News & Record (Greensboro, NC), 12/13/98
74. Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), 10/24/98
75. Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine), 10/10/98, 6/26/98, 3/28/98
76. Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL), 9/15/98
77. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 4/15/96
Texas:
78. KUT-FM, Austin, 1/15/14
79. Dallas Morning News, 12/25/10, 4/30/09, 1/24/08, 6/18/07, 6/16/07, 2/8/07, 2/7/07, 1/9/07,
6/10/06, 5/30/06, 11/13/05, 11/6/05, 6/22/05, 3/22/05, 3/19/05, 2/21/05, 8/8/04, 5/12/04, 5/10/04,
10/11/03, 7/11/02, 8/12/01, 4/29/01, 4/25/01, 4/18/01, 7/2/00, 10/5/996/29/99, 6/2/99, 6/1/99,
5/23/99, 5/22/99, 12/23/98, 10/28/98. 10/10/98, 8/13/98, 7/19/98,3/9/98, 2/24/98, 8/19/97, 2/2/97,
9/26/97, 4/14/96, 4/11/96, 9/22/95, 3/26/95, 6/28/94, 9/21/93
80. Houston Chronicle, 4/11/09, 3/27/05, 6/6/99
81. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4/14/06, 6/11/05, 3/24/05, 3/22/05, 6/27/01, 9/13/00, 4/18/00, 10/22/98
82. Austin American-Statesman, 11/15/02
83. Texas Lawyer, 10/8/01, 8/27/01, 7/16/01, 8/14/00
84. KFAA-TV (Ch. 8, ABC affiliate, Dallas), 1/27, 14, 8/9/01, 6/26/00, 4/16/00
85. KTVT-TV (Ch. 11, CBS affiliate, Dallas), 8/9/01
86. KERA-FM (PBS affiliate, Dallas), 4/18/2001, 8/1/2001, 5/24/2004, 9/16/2005, 2/6/2007, 4/4/2007,
1/14/14
87. KXAS-TV (Ch. 5, NBC affiliate, Dallas), 7/9/12
Appendix B
Institutional Service
Law School – Current
1. Executive Committee, 2018-present
2. Ad hoc Law Review Committee, 2016-present
3. Judicial Clerkship Committee, 1999-2023 (chair: 2015-2018, 2019-2022)
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4. Faculty Advisor, SMU Law Review Association, 1986, 1988-92, 1997-present
5. Teaching Committee, 2014-present
6. Order of the Coif, SMU Chapter; President, 1987-90; Secretary,1990-present
7. Planning Committee, Conference of the Professions (SMU/Dedman School of Law, Perkins School
of Theology, UT-Southwestern Medical School, Dallas County Bar Association, Dallas County
Medical Society, Faith Commons), 1987-present
8. Tenure/Promotion Committee (Hillel Bavli), chair. 2018-present
Law School - Past
1. Coach, National Health Law Transactional Competition, 2021
2. Tenure/Promotion Committee (James Coleman), 2016-2021
3. Tsai Center Advisory Panel, 2015-2020
4. Honor Council, 2011-15
5. Faculty Forum Committee, 2001-05
6. Speakers Committee, 1989-90
7. Dean Search Committee, 1996-97
8. Career Services Committee, 1998-2001
9. Financial Aid Committee (chair), 1996-97
10. Faculty Sponsor, Hatton W. Sumners Scholars, 1987-97
11. Admissions Committee, 1996-97
12. Executive Committee, 1986-88, 1991-92, ex officio 1992-95, 1996-97
13. Ad Hoc Legal Research and Writing Committee (chair), 1995-97
14. Ad Hoc Judicial Clerkship Advisor, 1984-97
15. Coach, National Health Law Moot Court Competition Team, 1994, 1996
16. Chair Search Committee, 1991-92, 1995-96
17. Appointments Committee, 1985-87, 1991-92 (chair), ex officio 1992-95
18. Curriculum Committee, ex officio 1992-95
19. Professional Responsibility Committee, Spring 1990
20. Library Committee, 1988-89
21. Ad Hoc Grading Committee, 1988
22. Committee on Professional Responsibility, 1987-88
23. Ad Hoc Legal Writing Committee, 1984-1985
Law School - Other
1. Planning Chair, “Substantive Due Process After Dobbs,” April 2023 (co-sponsored with National
Civil Justice Institute)
2. Bioterrorism panel moderator, “Terrorism’s Burdens on Globalization,” February 7, 2002
3. Coach, Medical Ethics Moot Court Team: 2000 (national champions), 1998, 1996
4. Planning Chair, "The Cutting Edge of Medical Liability," SMU CLE Conference, Dallas, September
7-8, 1995
5. Planning Chair, "Litigating the Medical Malpractice Case," SMU CLE Seminar, Dallas, December
1-2, 1994
6. Planning Chair, "Litigating the Medical Malpractice Case," SMU CLE Seminar, Dallas, November
18-19, 1993
7. Organizer and participant, School of Law Grand Rounds Program, 1985-90 (panel discussions of the
Bhopal tragedy, international terrorism, disinvestment in South Africa, Pennzoil v. Texaco, women
in law, critical issues in health care, Judge Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court, Pledge of
Allegiance debate, abortion, proposed flag-burning amendment (organizer), legalization of drugs,
sexual harassment (organizer), developments in South Africa (organizer))
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8. Mock classes, Law School Open House for admitted applicants, March 4, 1988; March 3, 1989;
March 2, 1990
9. Planning Co-Chair, "Business Torts," SMU CLE Seminar, Dallas, November 17, 1989
10. First-Year or Foreign-Student Orientation lectures, 1985-1989, 1991-1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001
(variously: "Structure of the United States Court System," "Some Implications of Federalism,"
"Anatomy of a Lawsuit," "Introduction to Legal Method," "Introduction to Case Briefing")
11. Law School Marshal, University Baccalaureate, 1985, 1986
12. Law School Marshal, University Commencement, 1985-1989, 1991-1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999-
2000, 2002, 2003-2006 and misc. years thereafter
13. University Commencement Platform Party, 1996, 2001
University
1. Institutional Review Board, 2018-2020 (chair, 2019-20)
2. Presidents Commission on the Needs of Persons with Disabilities (PCNPD), 2017-present
3. Public Scholar Lecture: “The Irrelevance of Death,” Maguire Center for Ethics & Public
Responsibility, SMU, October 11, 2015
4. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, chair, 2014-17
5. Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2012-present
6. Common Reading discussion leader, 2010-present
7. University Benefits Committee, 2013-15
8. Town and Gown, 1992-present
9. Search committee, Maguire Chair in Ethics, 2013-15
10. Search committee, Central University Libraries, Asst. Dean for Scholarly Resources and Research
Services, 2012
11. Faculty Senate, 2011-14; Executive Committee, 2011-13
12. Tate Distinguished Lecture Board, 2011-13
13. Central University Libraries, Digital Repository Advisory Board, 2012-13
14. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility:
a. Director, 2005-2010
b. Co-principal investigator (four-year effort with Prof. William May to conceive and to raise
$2.8 million for creation of University ethics center);
c. Faculty Advisory Committee, 1995 – 2010
15. Member, Editorial Board, SMU Press, 2003-2010; Director, Medical Humanities Series, 2004-10
16. “Law, Literature & Medicine,” Godbey Lecture Series, Dallas, January 25, February 1 & 8, 1999
17. “Law, Literature & Medicine,” Dallas Hall Society, Dallas, April 9, 1999
18. “Death and Dying: Getting the Paperwork Right,” Godbey Lecture Series, Dallas, March 16, 1998
19. “Not Just Cloning Around Anymore,” Godbey Lecture Series, SMU, Dallas, March 23, 1998
20. Speaker, “Legal Aspects of Telemedicine,” Anthropology 5359 (“Medicine and New Information
Technologies”), November 11, 1996
21. Panelist, “Judgment Calls,” SMU Teaching Effectiveness Symposium, August 20, 1996
22. Speaker, "Medical Futility: The New Right to Die," SMU Godbey Lecture Series, Dallas, March 4,
1996
23. Speaker, "Hillary's Heresy: Health Care Reform in the 1990s," SMU Alumni Reunion/Homecoming
Weekend, Dallas, November 5, 1993
24. Speaker, "Issues in Election 1992 -- Health Care," SMU Regional Council of Alumni and Parents,
Denver, April 16, 1992
25. Speaker, "Issues in Election 1992 -- Health Care," SMU University Lecture Series, Dallas, April 1,
1992
26. Member, University Research Council, 1991-1992
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27. SMU Golden Mustangs 50
th
Reunion Class Address, "Medicine, Law, and Literature," Dallas, May
24, 1991
28. Speaker, "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads," SMU Regional Council of Alumni and Parents,
Houston, March 5, 1991
29. Speaker, SMU-Dallas Lecture Series: "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads: Opportunities and
Obligations for the 1990s," February 1, 1990
30. University AIDS Education Task Force, Chair, 1989-90
31. Chair, Sub-Committee on Condom Availability, 1988-1989
32. Speaker, "Medicine and Law at the Crossroads," SMU Regional Councils of Alumni and Parents,
New York City, Washington, D.C., October 18, 1989
33. University Distinguished Lecture Series (panelist), "Baby M and the Future," Southern Methodist
University, October 28, 1987
