Marcia Boumil, MA, MS, JD, LL.M

Positions

Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, TUSM

Assistant Dean, Conflict of Interest Administration

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center

Director, JD/MPH Program


Contact

Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Phone  

(617) 636-3575

(617) 636-6670

Fax (617) 636-2166
Email marcia.boumil@tufts.edu
Education
Degree(s)

M.S. in Public Health: Tufts University

M.A in Psychology: Boston College

J.D. (Law): University of Connecticut School of Law

LL.M. (Law): Columbia University School of Law
Institution(s)
Research Focus

My research focus is in the field of conflicts of interest in academic medicine. I’m also interested in legal issues in reproductive health and children’s mental health, particularly privacy issues.

Select Publications

Boumil, M, Pharmaceutical Gift Laws and Commercial Speech Under the First Amendment in the Wake of Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc. Publication Pending, J of Health and Biomedical L. (2012).

Boumil, M, Cutrell, E., Lowney, K and Berman, H, Pharmaceutical Speakers' Bureaus, Academic Freedom and the Management of Promotional Speaking at Academic Medical  Centers. Publication pending, J. of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2012). 

Boumil, M, et al., Prescription Data Mining, Medical Privacy and The First Amendment: The U.S. Supreme Court in Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc.  21 Annals of Health Law __(2012).

Boumil M, Berman HA. Revisiting the Physician/Industry Alliance: The Bayh-Dole Act and Conflict of Interest Management at Academic Medical Centers. 15 J. of Med. and Law 1(2011).

Boumil M, et al., Waiver of the Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege; Implications for the Family Court. Publication Pending: Health Matrix, 2011.

Boumil, et al., D. Multidisciplinary Representation of Patients: The Potential for Ethical Issues and Professional Duty Conflicts in the Medical-Legal Partnership Model. J. Healthcare L. and Policy 13:101 (2010).

Boumil and Hattis, Medical Liability in a Nutshell, Third Edition (West Publishing Co. 2011)

Boumil and Sharpe, Liability in Medicine and Public Health (Thomson-West Publishing Co., 2004).

Toward a Greater Level of Transparency: The New Massachusetts Conflict of Interest Law. 10 Harv. Health Policy Rev. 31 (2009).

 

 

 

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