Efthimios Parasidis

• BA, The College of New Jersey
• MBE, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Efthimios Parasidis is a nationally-recognized expert in 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 fifty publications, his work has appeared in top journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and American Journal of Bioethics, among others. He is co-author of a leading graduate-level course book 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 was appointed to a National Institutes of Health research ethics committee that examines complex and emerging issues in clinical data science. He serves as an Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues Team Member on DARPA’s Measuring Biological Aptitude program, and served as a law and bioethics consultant to the U.S. Air Force. During the Covid-19 pandemic he served on several university, state, and local pandemic response advisory committees, including Ohio State’s Safe Campus and Scientific Advisory Subgroup, Ohio State’s Comprehensive Monitoring Team, the Ohio Department of Health Covid-19 Minority Health Vaccine Workgroup, and the Medical Advisory Board for the Upper Arlington Board of Education. He has provided invited testimony to HHS’s National Vaccine Advisory Committee and pro bono consultations for the Ohio Department of Health Covid-19 Minority Health Strike Force and the Public Safety and Legal Counsel Division of the National Governors Association.

The Greenwall Foundation awarded Professor Parasidis a Presidential Grant in 2021-2022 and a Faculty Scholar in Bioethics fellowship for 2014-2017. In 2019 he was a recipient of the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Grants for Works-in-Progress. 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 an assistant 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 cases in state and federal courts at 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 is of counsel with the boutique law firm Salzano, Lampert & Wilson LLP, 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.