Paul A. Lombardo, Ph.D., J.D., (University of Virginia)
Center for Biomedical Ethics
434.982.4227
pal8g@virginia.edu
You may view some of Paul Lombardo's publications, as well as audio and video presentations, by following the links below.
Web Presentations Selected Publications
Paul A. Lombardo is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Law and Medicine at the Center for Biomedical Ethics. He has taught courses both at the School of Medicine and the School of Law on topics ranging from Genetics and the Law, the History of Bioethics, Health Law, Legal and Ethical Regulation of Research and Law & Psychiatry.
Professor Lombardo recently sponsored an Historic Marker that was unveiled on May 2, 2002, in Charlottesville, Virginia to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Buck v. Bell. The marker ceremony included the reading of a General Assembly Resolution honoring Carrie Buck, the first person sterilized under the 1924 Virginia eugenics law. The ceremony also featured an apology by Virginia's Governor Mark Warner, making Virginia the first of more than 30 states that had eugenic sterilization laws to denounce the legislation that sanctioned the involuntary sterilization of more than 60,000 nationally.
Lombardo drafted Virginia’s 1997 Patient Health Records Privacy Act, and has written articles about confidentiality in the various contexts of mental health services, genetics, substance abuse treatment and medical records. Other publications have dealt with a variety of issues in health law, bioethics, and medico-legal history, including the history of psychiatric commitment, organ transplantation, AIDS and reproductive rights. He has prepared a Bibliography of Eugenics and is working on a book entitled: Better for All the World: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell.
He sits on a variety of national panels, including the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study the Need for Clinical Trials of Testosterone Replacement Therapy, the Clinical Trial Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and the Central Beryllium IRB of the Department of Energy, charged with reviewing all research on current or former workers related to potential Beryllium exposure. He formerly served on the US Department of Health and Human Services Research Protection Advisory Committee's Work Group on Decisional Capacity.
As a historian, he has served as a member of the National Library of Medicine Special Emphasis Panel to review historical manuscripts for publication grants, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the Digital Image Archive of the American Eugenics Movement, a National Institute of Health funded project of the DNA Learning Center of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
Lombardo received his A.B. from Rockhurst College, his M.A. from Loyola University of Chicago and both his Ph.D. and JD from the University of Virginia. From 1985-1990 he practiced law in California. He returned to the University of Virginia as a faculty member in 1990.