Efthimios Parasidis, B.A., MBE, J.D.
Education
- BA, The College of New Jersey
- MBE, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Biography
Efthimios Parasidis is a nationally recognized expert in health law and bioethics. He holds The Kara J. Trott Endowed Professorship in Law, maintains a joint appointment with the College of Public Health, and is a faculty affiliate with the College of Medicine’s Center for Bioethics. Professor Parasidis teaches courses in health law, bioethics, and intellectual property; first year law courses that include property and torts; and a seminar on law and political economy.
A prolific scholar with over fifty publications, Professor Parasidis’ 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.
Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty, Professor Parasidis was an assistant professor at the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University. He also 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. Professor Parasidis worked as an associate at Jones Day and a senior associate at Dickstein Shapiro, and is of counsel with the boutique law firm of Salzano, Ettinger, Lampert, & Wilson LLP. During the coronavirus pandemic, he served pro bono on several state, local, and university pandemic response advisory committees.
Professor Parasidis is an appointed member of the National Institutes of Health research ethics committee that examines complex and emerging issues in clinical data science. He also 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. Professor Parasidis has received several grants for his research, including from The Greenwall Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, and Robert B. Silvers Foundation.
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Julian Tugaoen, Alana Becker, Chenmeinian Guo, Efthimios Parasidis et al., Web3-based Storage Solutions for Biomedical Research and Clinical Data, 31 J. Am. Med. Informatics Ass'n 790 (2024)
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Kelli N. Patterson, Annamarie Beckmeyer, Tran Bourgeois, Kyle Z. Horvath, Amy L. Pratt, Lisa Armour, Ling Wang, Peter C. Minneci, Katherine J. Deans, Rajan K. Thakkar & Efthimios Parasidis, Legal Epidemiology of Paediatric Dog Bite Injuries, 29 Inj. Prevention 142 (2023)
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Ryan Eaton, Efthimios Parasidis & Russell Lonser, Commentary: Two Practices to Improve Informed Consent for Intraoperative Brain Research, 92 Neurosurgery e102 (2023)
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Efthimios Parasidis, The Urgent Need for a U.S. Data Protection Agency, 23 Am. J. Bioethics 26 (2023)
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Efthimios Parasidis & Amy L. Fairchild, Incorporating Ethics Consultations Into Public Health Practice, 22 Am. J. Bioethics 47 (2022)
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Efthimios Parasidis & Amy L. Fairchild, Closing the Public Health Ethics Gap, 387 New Eng. J. Med. 961 (2022)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Compulsory Medical Device Registries: Legal and Regulatory Issues, in The Future of Medical Device Regulation: Innovation and Protection (2022)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Covid-19 Mandates at the Supreme Court: Scope and Limits of Federal Authority, Health Aff. Forefront, March 8, 2022
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Maxwell J. Mehlman & Efthimios Parasidis, Predictive Genetic Testing by the U.S. Military: Legal and Ethical Issues, 186 Mil. Med. 726 (2021)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Assessing the Legality of Mandates for Vaccines Authorized Via an Emergency Use Authorization, Health Aff. Forefront, Feb. 16, 2021
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Patricia J. Zettler, Micah L. Berman & Efthimios Parasidis, Drug and Vaccine Development and Access, in Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19 (2021)
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Daniel B. Kramer, David J. Cohen & Efthimios Parasidis, Comparative Effectiveness Research and Cardiovascular Device Registries: Aligning Policy and Methods, 14 Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes e007911 (2021)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Informed Consent and Compulsory Medical Device Registries: Ethics and Opportunities, J. Med. Ethics, Feb. 19, 2021
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Efthimios Parasidis, Choices in a Crisis: Individual Preferences Among SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines, New Eng. J. Med., March 3, 2021
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Patricia J. Zettler, Micah L. Berman & Efthimios Parasidis, Drug and Vaccine Development and Access, in Covid-19 Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future (2021)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Micah L. Berman & Patricia J. Zettler, Assessing COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorizations, 76 Food & Drug L.J. 441 (2021)
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Micah L. Berman, Patricia J. Zettler & Efthimios Parasidis, Law and Ethics During a Public Health Crisis, 3 Ohio J. Pub. Health 3 (2020)
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Stacey Pereira, Rebecca L. Hsu, Rubaiya Islam, Jill Oliver Robinson, Rishab Ramapriyan, Emily Sirotich, Megan D. Maxwell, Mary Majumder, Carrie L. Blout, Kurt D. Christensen, Maxwell Mehlman, Efthimios Parasidis et al., Airmen and Health-Care Providers’ Attitudes Toward the Use of Genetic Sequencing in the U.S. Air Force: Findings from the MilSeq Project, 22 Genetics in Med. 1 (2020)
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Efthimios Parasidis, The FDA’s Public Health Imperative: An Increased Role for Active Post-Market Analysis, in FDA in the 21st Century (2015)
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Ayesha Farooq, Junu Bae, Daniel Rice, Amika Moro, Anghela Paredes, Anna L. Crisp, Monica Windholtz, Kota Sahara, Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, J.Madison Hyer, Katiuscha Merath, Efthimios Parasidis & Timothy M. Pawlik, Inside the Courtroom: An Analysis of Malpractice Litigation in Gallbladder Surgery, 168 Surgery 56 (2020)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Reclaiming the First Amendment, 109 Am. J. Pub. Health 352 (2019)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Elizabeth Pike & Deven McGraw, A Belmont Report for Health Data, 380 New Eng. J. Med. 1493 (2019)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Clinical Decision Support: Elements of a Sensible Legal Framework, 20 J. Health Care L. & Pol'y 183 (2018)
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Neal H. Hooker, Christopher T. Simon & Efthimios Parasidis, “Natural” Food Claims: Industry Practices, Consumer Expectations, and Class Action Lawsuits, 73 Food & Drug L.J. 319 (2018)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Human Enhancement and Experimental Research in the Military, in Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics (2018)
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Efthimios Parasidis, The Future of Pharmacovigilance: Big Data and the False Claims Act, in Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics (2018)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Recalibrating Vaccination Laws, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 2153 (2017)
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Rebecca Liu, Neal H. Hooker, Efthimios Parasidis & Christopher T. Simons, A Natural Experiment: Using Immersive Technologies to Study the Impact of “All-Natural” Labeling on Perceived Food Quality, Nutritional Content, and Liking, 82 J. Food Sci. 825 (2017)
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Efthimios Parasidis & Douglas J. Opel, Parental Refusal of Childhood Vaccines and Medical Neglect Laws, 107 Am. J. Pub. Health 68 (2017)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Public Health Law and Institutional Vaccine Skepticism, 41 Health Pol'y Pol. & L. 1137 (2016)
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Efthimios Parasidis, The Military Biomedical Complex: Are Service Members a Vulnerable Population?, 16 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 113 (2016)
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Carl Coleman, Jerry Menikoff, Jesse Goldner & Efthimios Parasidis, The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects ((2nd ed., 2015)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Neal H. Hooker & Christopher T. Simons, Addressing Consumer Confusion Surrounding “Natural” Food Claims, 41 Am. J.L. & Med. 357 (2015)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Emerging Military Technologies: Balancing Medical Ethics and National Security, 47 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 167 (2015)
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David B. Resnik & Efthimios Parasidis, Waiving Legal Rights in Research, 40 J. Med. Ethics 475 (2014)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Classifying Military Personnel as a Vulnerable Population, in Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (2014)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Health Outcomes Metrics and the Role of Financial Derivative Instruments in the Health Care Industry, 10 Ind. Health L. Rev. 447 (2013)
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Efthimios Parasidis et al., A Dynamic Method for Quantifying Healthcare Status and Burden of Disease Through Health Outcome Indices, 15 Tech. & Innovation 31 (2013)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Human Enhancement and Experimental Research in the Military, 44 Conn. L. Rev. 1117 (2012)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Defining the Essence of Being Human, 13 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 825 (2012)
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Efthimios Parasidis, The Essence of Being Human, in The Law of the Future and the Future of Law (2011)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Patients Over Politics: Addressing Legislative Failure in the Regulation of Medical Products, 2011 Wis. L. Rev. 929 (2011)
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Efthimios Parasidis, A Sum Greater Than Its Parts: Copyright Protection for Application Program Interfaces, 14 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 59 (2005)
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Efthimios Parasidis, Compensation for Research-Related Injuries Involving Human Participants, 2 Harv. J. on Med. Ethics 26 (2001)