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Robyn S. Shapiro
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Robyn S. Shapiro is a partner in the Health Practice Group.  She has significant experience in representing clients with respect to bioethics issues, medical staff matters, health information privacy, informed consent, regulatory and licensing matters, human subjects research compliance and employment and other business issues.  Robyn's concurrent positions as Ursula Von der Ruhr professor of bioethics and director of the Bioethics Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin complement her wide-ranging experience in health law.  Nightingale's Healthcare News named her one of 10 Outstanding Hospital Lawyers for 2006, and in 2006 she was one of 12 honorees selected as "Leader in the Law" by the Wisconsin Law Journal.

Robyn is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The Best of the U.S. (Lawyers), Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Education, International Who’s Who and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders of America.
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  • Harvard Law School, J.D. 1977
  • University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, B.A. 1974 summa cum laude, with highest distinction

  • Wisconsin

  • U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Chair, American Bar Association, Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law, 1996-1998; appointed member 1996-2006
Council, American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, 1998-present; Secretary, 2004-2005; Vice-Chair 2005-2006; Chair-Elect 2006-present;
Board Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 1997-2000.
Member, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1983-present.
Chair, International Association of Bioethics, Hospital Ethics Committee Network, 1990-present.
Member, American Health Lawyers Association, 1984-present.
Appointed Member, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, 2005-present.
Appointed Member, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation, 2001-2004.
Appointed member, United States Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, 2003- present.
American Bar Association’s Advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Committee on Misuse of Genetic Information, 2002- present.
Editorial Board, Human Rights, 1998-present.
Editorial Board, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1992-present.
Appointed member, American Society of Health System Pharmacists-Commission on Goals 2006 - present.
American Bar Foundation Fellow  2006 - present.
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