Faculty Profile: Amy Campbell

Amy T. Campbell, JD, MBE is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Health Law & Policy at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she is responsible for creating and leading a new health law program.  She also serves as Adjunct Faculty in the Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership of the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program.  Prof. Campbell received her law degree from Yale Law School, her Master's in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, and her BA in History and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

At Memphis Law, Prof. Campbell developed and teaches several new courses, including Health Law I: Quality & Access, Public Health Law, and the Health Policy Practicum.  She also has taught a health care reform seminar and Mental Health Law.  Prior faculty experience in academic medical settings include teaching ethics to medical, nursing, health professional and PhD basic science students, and health policy to an interdisciplinary mix of professional students. Her scholarly interests include: how to develop health policy from a therapeutic, evidence-informed, and ethical perspective; how law is used to change individual and population behavior; how to frame bioethicists' role on a global policy stage; and how better to meet legal training needs of health professionals (including via innovative interdisciplinary law-health professional student approaches). Specific areas of interest include child and adolescent health and mental health.

Ms. Campbell's current University service includes serving as Chair of the 2015-2016 Faculty Recruitment Committee, membership on a Promotion & Tenure Subcommittee and the Self-Study Committee, and acting as faculty advisor of the Health Law Certificate program and to the student Health Law Society.  Community/regional service includes membership on the Executive Committee of the Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and on the Board of the Memphis Bar Association's Health Law Section.  Additionally, Prof. Campbell is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Academy of Law & Mental Health, through which she has served since 2012 to co-organize the therapeutic jurisprudence track of its biennial Congress (Amsterdam-2013; Vienna-2015).  She also serves on the Advisory Board of World Medical & Health Policy (journal).  She is also consultant to the Advocacy Committee of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (which she chaired 2013-2015), serves on the National Advisory Committee of Youth Providers 2.0, and is actively engaged in pediatric law and bioethics endeavors through the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, for which she was also recently elected to the Nominating Committee (service to begin in Oct. 2015).