Barry Furrow, JD

Barry Furrow is a pioneer in the field of health law. His expertise spans a wide array of health-related topics, including health care policy, regulation and finance, patient safety, patient privacy, mental health, provider accountability, medical ethics and bioethics and legal issues of pain management. Furrow is the lead author of “Health Law — Cases, Materials and Problems” (now in its 7th edition), which remains the leading casebook in the field. He is also co-author of the treatise, “Health Law,” which the U.S. Supreme Court has cited three times. He has written more than three dozen law review articles on state and federal regulation of medical errors and patient safety, pain management, sports medicine, tort reform, medical privacy and regulation of scientific research. Furrow currently is an associate of the Center for Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania.