ROBERT HARRISON

Robert R. Harrison teaches courses in health care law, law and biomedical sciences, health care fraud and abuse, administrative and regulatory law, and the legal profession.  He currently serves on the University Institutional Review Board and previously served for sixteen years on the University Hospital Ethics Committee.  He earned a Master of Health Administration from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated from the Saint Louis University School of Law with an Honors Certificate in Health Law from the Center for Health Law Studies. He was a Fellow at the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago, earning a Master of Laws in Health Law with a concentration in regulatory compliance, and holds a graduate certificate in bioethics and health policy and a doctorate in bioethics with a concentration in research ethics from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.  Professor Harrison served for seven years on the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia ~ Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, was Senior Counsel at the Johns Hopkins Health System, and taught at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.  He is a past Chair of the Health Law Section of the Federal Bar Association, a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Fellow and the 2026 President of the American Academy of Legal Medicine.