Mark Barnes

• Corporate

Connecticut

Since 1985

Connecticut, 1985

New York

Since 1986

New York, 1986

Counsel

Ropes & Gray

Current

Current

Mark represents medical schools, hospitals, and major pharmaceutical companies in matters related to scientific research, stem cell and genetic research, research grants, clinical trials, Medicare reimbursement, and medical privacy. Educated at Yale Law School and Columbia University School of Law, Mark taught full time at Columbia for four years in the late 1980s, where he co-founded a clinical and academic program devoted to antidiscrimination and public health law. He served as the Director of Policy for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute in the early 1990s. In 1993, he was a consultant and a member of the legal review committee of the Clinton White House National Health Care Reform Task Force. While serving from 1992 to 1994 as Associate Commissioner for Medical and Legal Policy for the New York City Department of Health, Mark wrote and politically managed New York City's adoption and enforcement of new regulations compelling treatment compliance among tuberculosis patients, in order to control the burgeoning tuberculosis epidemic. Also during that time, he was given charge of New York City Department of Health's AIDS care programs, which he reorganized and for which he secured $60 million in additional annual federal funding for these City programs. In the mid 1990s, Mark was the Executive Director of the AIDS Action Council, where he lobbied and advocated on AIDS funding and policy before Congress, federal agencies, and the Office of the President. In 2004, he was seconded by Ropes Gray to Harvard University, where as full-time interim executive director, he oversaw and organized the start-up of Harvard's AIDS treatment programs in Nigeria, Tanzania and Botswana. Mark has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections of the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under HHS Secretaries Shalala, Thompson and Leavitt.

Columbia Law School

LL.M.

1991

Yale Law School

J.D.

1984

Bennington College

B.A.

1981