Efthimios Parasidis, JD

Efthimios Parasidis is a nationally-recognized expert on health law and bioethics. He holds a joint appointment with The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and the College of Public Health, and is a faculty affiliate with the College of Medicine’s Center for Bioethics. A prolific scholar with over thirty publications, his work has appeared in top journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and Boston University Law Review, among others. He is co-author of a leading casebook on the ethics and regulation of research with human subjects, and has a book on military medical ethics under contract with Oxford University Press.

Professor Parasidis serves as a law and bioethics consultant to the U.S. Air Force. In 2019 he was appointed to a National Institutes of Health research ethics committee that examines complex and emerging issues in clinical data science and data sharing. The Greenwall Foundation awarded Professor Parasidis a Faculty Scholar in Bioethics fellowship for 2014-2017. As a Fulbright Scholar, Professor Parasidis researched legal and ethical issues related to medical informed consent policies and practices in Greece. Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty, he was a professor at the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University. While in Missouri, he was an appointed member of the Law & Policy Workgroup of Missouri Health Connection, the entity responsible for creating Missouri’s health information exchange.

In addition to his scholarly work and public service, Professor Parasidis served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York, under Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo, where he handled hundreds of cases in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. He was an associate in the Litigation group of Jones Day and a senior associate in the Intellectual Property group of Dickstein Shapiro. Professor Parasidis counsels start-up companies on corporate and intellectual property matters, co-founded a health informatics start-up company, and is a co-inventor on a patent application related to health information technology.

Bioethics; Food Law; Health Law; Public Health

• MA, Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School