Robert J. Levine is Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of the Law, Policy and Ethics Core of Yale University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of Yale University's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project. He is a fellow of The Hastings Center, the American College of Physicians and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, a Director of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research), Past-President of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and past-Chairman of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In the past he was also Chair of the Institutional Review Board at Yale-New Haven Medical Center (1969 - 2000), Chief of the Section of Clinical Pharmacology at Yale, Chairman of the Section on Medico-Legal Matters and R&D Administration of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Associate Editor of Biochemical Pharmacology and Editor of Clinical Research.

Dr. Levine is the founding editor of IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research (Editor 1979 - 2000 and currently Chair of the Editorial Board) and has served as consultant to several federal and international agencies involved in the development of policy for the protection of human subjects*. He is the author of numerous publications and is currently preparing the third edition of his book, Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research.

In the last 25 years, most of Dr. Levine's research, teaching and publications have been in the field of medical ethics with particular concentration on the ethics of research involving human subjects.

Curriculum Vitae