Hamline University
School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1237
U.S.A.
651-523-2941
School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1237
U.S.A.
651-523-2941
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Stacey A. Tovino Dr. Stacey Tovino joined the Hamline University School of Law faculty in August 2006. Dr. Tovino’s research interests lie in the areas health care law and ethics, including neurolaw, neuroethics, bioethics, and research ethics; confidentiality and privacy; literature and narrative studies in health care; and the history of medicine, including the history of neuroscience, neuroimaging, mental health care, and midwifery. At Hamline, Dr. Tovino teaches HIPAA Privacy, Mental Health Law, Law and Bioethics, Patients' Rights, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Law, Comparative Health Law, Health Care Quality and Liability, and Elder Law. Dr. Tovino most recently served as Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center’s Health Law & Policy Institute, where she taught Health Law, Health Privacy, and Torts. Tovino earned her Ph.D. in medical humanities with distinction from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute for the Medical Humanities, where she specialized in health care ethics, the history of medicine, and literature and narrative studies in health care. During graduate school, Tovino was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and received the Harry Ransom Dissertation Award, the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, and the GSBS Associates Scholarship. Her doctoral dissertation, a contribution to the burgeoning field of neuroethics, examined the confidentiality and privacy implications of advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Tovino earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Houston Law Center in 1997, and her B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Tulane University in 1994. She practiced health law in the Health Industries Group at Vinson & Elkins in Houston, Texas, between 1997 and 2003. 2007-2008 Paper Presentations: February 29 - March 1, 2008, "NeuroLaw: What Neuroscience Offers to Law," Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. October 29-31, 2007, "Functional Neuroimaging: Perceptions of Mental Health and Mental Illness," World Federation for Mental Health, Conference on Transcultural Mental Health, Building a Global Response, Minneapolis, Minnesota. August 26-28, 2007, "Implanting Change: The Ethics of Neural Prosthetics," Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. May 31- June 2, 2007, "Psychiatric Restraint and Seclusion: Resisting Legislative Solution," American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30th Annual Health Law Professors Conference, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. April 28, 2007, "Neuroethics and the Law," MidBrains 2007 Undergraduate Neuroscience Conference, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota. April 19-21, 2007, "From the Brain to Human Culture: Intersections between the Humanities and Neuroscience," sponsored by Bucknell University's Comparative Humanities Program, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. April 13, 2007, "Health, Disability, and Employment Law Implications of Advances in MRI," Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning conference, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law, Science & Technology at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, held at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona. February 16, 2007, "Health Law Implications of Advances in Functional Neuroimaging," Minnesota State Bar Association, Health Law Section monthly meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota. February 3, 2007, "Imaging Body Structure and Mapping Brain Function: A Historical Approach," American Journal of Law and Medicine, Brain Imaging and the Law Symposium, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts Selected Publications
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