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Mark Barnes
Counsel
Ropes & Gray
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-8704
T + 1-212-497-3635
F + 1-646-728-1584
+ 1-212-497-5797 secretary
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Practice
Mark Barnes, counsel at Ropes & Gray, has practiced and taught law and has administered government programs in the health care field for the past 20 years.
Mark is recognized as one of the leading attorneys in the fields of research compliance, the practice and ethics of clinical trials, and medical privacy.
Professional Experience
Mark represents medical schools, hospitals, and major pharmaceutical companies in matters related to scientific research, stem cell and genetic research, research grants, clinical trials, Medicare reimbursement, and medical privacy.
Educated at Yale Law School and Columbia University School of Law, Mark taught full time at Columbia for four years in the late 1980s, where he co-founded a clinical and academic program devoted to antidiscrimination and public health law. He served as the Director of Policy for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute in the early 1990s. In 1993, he was a consultant and a member of the legal review committee of the Clinton White House National Health Care Reform Task Force.
While serving from 1992 to 1994 as Associate Commissioner for Medical and Legal Policy for the New York City Department of Health, Mark wrote and politically managed New York City's adoption and enforcement of new regulations compelling treatment compliance among tuberculosis patients, in order to control the burgeoning tuberculosis epidemic. Also during that time, he was given charge of New York City Department of Health's AIDS care programs, which he reorganized and for which he secured $60 million in additional annual federal funding for these City programs. In the mid 1990s, Mark was the Executive Director of the AIDS Action Council, where he lobbied and advocated on AIDS funding and policy before Congress, federal agencies, and the Office of the President.
In 2004, he was seconded by Ropes & Gray to Harvard University, where as full-time interim executive director, he oversaw and organized the start-up of Harvard's AIDS treatment programs in Nigeria, Tanzania and Botswana.
Mark has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections of the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under HHS Secretaries Shalala, Thompson and Leavitt.
Honors & Awards
Professional & Civic Activities
Mark is a Lecturer at the Yale Medical School, where he teaches each Fall. He also has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at a number of law schools, including NYU Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Cardozo Law School, and New York Law School. He has taught courses in the law and ethics of human subjects research, public health law, health care law and finance, managed care law, occupational health and safety, and law and medicine.
Mark is President-Elect of the Health Law Section on the New York State Bar Association.
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1986
- Connecticut, 1985
Education
- 1991,
LL.M., Columbia Law School
- 1984,
J.D., Yale Law School
- 1981,
B.A., Bennington College
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