Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes is an American attorney serving as a partner in the Ropes & Gray health care and life sciences practice based in Boston. He was director of policy for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, and associate commissioner for medical and legal policy for the New York City Department of Health under the mayoralty of David Dinkins. He worked on the National Health Care Reform Task Force in the Clinton Administration. He also has served as executive vice president of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and founded and directed the Harvard University HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Africa. His current legal and advocacy work includes a focus on the fields of research compliance, the ethics and regulation of clinical trials, medical privacy, and "big data" research. He is past president of the New York State Bar Association's Health Law Section. Provided by Wikipedia