Robert R. Harrison

Robert R. Harrison focuses his practice on regulatory compliance, fraud and abuse counseling and defense, provider ethics and licensing,  life sciences and clinical research law, and organizational ethics.  As an attorney, he has advised national health care companies, academic medical centers, community hospitals, life sciences companies, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and a wide range of individual and institutional providers.  Prior to attending law school, Robert served in a variety of academic and administrative capacities in university medical centers and community hospitals, including seven years as an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine and ten years in management positions at university hospitals and investor-owned health care organization.

Robert holds a graduate degree from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia at Commonwealth University, is an honor graduate of the Saint Louis University School of Law, and holds a Master of Laws in Health Law with a concentration in regulatory compliance from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  He also holds a doctorate in bioethics with a concentration in research ethics from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.   Robert has been an Administrative Fellow at the University of Maryland Medical System, a Visiting Fellow in Health Policy at the United States Senate, and a Health Law Fellow at the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago.

Robert’s past national leadership positions include serving as Co-Chair of the National Practitioner Data Bank Work Group and Vice Chair of the Medical Staff, Credentialing and Peer Review Practice Group at the American Health Law Association, Chair of the Health Law Section for the Federal Bar Association, and a Fellow and member of the Board of Governors for the American College of Legal Medicine.  He currently sits on the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Utah Supreme Court, is a member of the University of Utah Institutional Review Board, and serves on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Legal Medicine.

The author of more than two dozen publications on issues in health care, health law and research ethics, he is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences.  He currently holds academic appointments at the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law and at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.   Robert is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Life Member of the American Health Law Association.