Alexander M. Capron
- USC University Professor
- Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics (Gould School of Law)
- Professor of Medicine and Law (Keck School of Medicine)
- Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics
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Expertise Summary
Expert in bioethics, health care policy, access to health care, relationship between law and medicine
Expertise
- Election 2016
- bioethics
- relationship between law and medicine
- organ transplantation (organ trafficking, transplant tourism)
- determination of death
- ethical and policy issues in physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
- medical, ethical, legal and economic issues in the care of seriously ill patients
- protection of research subjects
- public health law
- healthcare policy
- access to health care and allocation of scarce medical resources
- genetic screening and counseling (ethical and legal aspects)
- genetic modification of human beings
- reproductive technology
- cloning of human beings
- patients' rights
- medical malpractice and liability
- torts
Additional Information
- Author/editor of seven books on ethical and public policy implications of developments in the life sciences, health policy, and biomedical research
- Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine
- Elected Member, American Law Institute
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Honorary Fellow, American College of Legal Medicine
- Founding Fellow, Hastings Center
- Member, National Bioethics Advisory Commission (1996-2001)
- Commissioner, The Joint Commission(1995-2012)
- Executive Director, President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1979-1983)
- Director, Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law, World Health Organization (2002-2006)