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Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope on end-of-life law and policy

Monday, May 29, 2017

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Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C: Mitchell Hamline Health Law Institute; Australian Center for Health Law Research at QUT; Albany Medical College, Minnesota, United States; Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, is Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct Associate Professor with the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College; and Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at St. Georges University. <> Professor Pope is an internationally recognized expert in bioethics and medical ethics. He has over 250 publications in: leading medical journals, law reviews, bar journals, nursing journals, bioethics journals, and book chapters. He also coauthors the definitive 1500-page treatise The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking.