Amy T Campbell, JD, MBE

Current Appointments

• Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities
• Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Hospital Campus

• Downtown

Research Abstract

Adolescent decision-making; child health policy; evidence-based policy-making; law and policy-related education of health care professionals

My research focuses on how health policy is formed, influenced, and analyzed, and how therapeutic and ethical insights could help inform policy with the intent to make it more sensitive to its consequences on the health of individuals and populations. Currently, I am developing a framework for health policymaking that builds on the insights of therapeutic jurisprudence. I am also studying the impact of health policy on adolescent decision-making, and the law's flexibility in allowing a sharing among the adolescent, family, and health care professional(s) in the decision-making process. I am also generally interested in how health care professionals are trained in the law, and the extent to which medical education prepares them to exercise a voice in the policy process, and beyond that, if/how that voice could best be used.

Selected References:

Campbell AT. Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Framework for Evidence-Informed Health Care Policymaking. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. In Press.

Campbell AT. Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health, Book Review. Journal of Legal Medicine. 2010; 31(2). In Press.

Chaudron LH, Szilagyi PG, Campbell AT, Mounts KO, McInernry TK. Legal and Ethical Considerations: Risks and Benefits of Postpartum Depression Screening at Well-Child Visits. Pediatrics. 2007; 119(1): 123-128.

Campbell AT. Consent, Competence, and Confidentiality Related to Psychiatric Conditions in Adolescent Medicine Practice. Adolescent Medicine Clinics. 2006; 17(1): 25-47.

Campbell AT. Adolescent Decisional Autonomy in Research: Issues in Translating Research into Policy. American Journal of Bioethics. 2005; 5(5): 78-80.

Campbell AT. State Regulation of Medical Research with Children and Adolescents: An Overview and Analysis. In: Field MJ and RE Behrman, eds. Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004, Appendix B: 320-387.