Using ASCO's Clinical Database for Commercial Research Raises Questions, Ethicists Say June 5, 2019 Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health and Kline School of Law, was quoted in a May 31 Medscape article about the ethical issues associated with allowing companies to sell access to patient data after they have been stripped of identifiers, without asking for patients' permission. View story