Rate My Professor Lee Black

Lee Black, JD, DCL, serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy within George Mason University’s College of Public Health. His academic background includes a Doctor of Civil Law from McGill University Faculty of Law (2018), a Master of Laws in Health Law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law (2004), a Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky College of Law (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Washington University in St. Louis (2000). Prior to joining George Mason in August 2020 as Term Assistant Professor, he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law (Fall 2018) and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (2017-2018), Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and College of Allied Health Sciences (2019-2020), and Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Business (Spring 2020). He has taught courses including Healthcare Law, Healthcare Ethics, Public Health Law and Ethics, Genetics Law and Policy, Law and Bioethics, Introduction to Health Law, Torts, Introduction to Law and the Legal Profession, Legal Environment of Business, and Health Policy: Legal and Ethical Issues. Earlier roles encompass Senior Research Associate at the American Medical Association (2006-2008), where he served as Health Law editor for the online ethics journal Virtual Mentor, drafted ethics reports, and supported judicial functions; Staff Attorney at the State of Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau (2004-2006); and Academic Associate at McGill University Centre of Genomics and Policy (2009-2014).

Dr. Black’s research interests center on the intersection of law, policy, and ethics in health care, particularly the impact of legal regulation of abortion on healthcare providers’ ethical responsibilities, legal pluralism in the medical profession, genetics law and policy, biobanking, incidental findings, and informed consent. Key publications include “Socio-Ethical Issues in Personalized Medicine: A Systematic Review of HTAs of Gene Expression Profiling Test for Breast Cancer Prognosis” (with Sarah Ali-Khan et al., International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2015); “Charting the Privacy Landscape in Canadian Paediatric Biobanks” (with Edward S. Dove et al., Health Law Journal, 2013); and “Funding Considerations for the Disclosure of Genetic Incidental Findings in Biobank Research” (with Denise Avard et al., Clinical Genetics, 2013). He contributes to professional service as a member of the George Mason University Faculty Senate Technology Policy Committee, Mercy Health Anderson Hospital Ethics Committee (2017-2019), McGill University Health Centre Research Ethics Board (2008-2011), and consultant for the American Medical Association (2008).