Arnold J. Rosoff, J.D.
- Chair, MPH Program Curriculum Committee
- Course Director, PUBH 507 Public Health Law, Ethics, and Policy
- Professor of Legal Studies and Health Care System
- Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economic
Arnold Rosoff has been a full-time member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty since 1970. In his time at Penn, Professor Rosoff has chaired Wharton's Department of Legal Studies and directed its MBA Program for Executives and the Wharton Government and Business Program. He has also served as Faculty Master of Fisher Hassenfeld College House. Since 2004, Professor Rosoff has been a faculty member in the Penn Medical School’s Public Health (MPH) program.
Professor Rosoff received his B.S. in Economics from Penn and his law degree from Columbia University. He clerked for the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and practiced law with the Philadelphia firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. Principally through AHMAC (the American Health Management and Consulting Corp.), which he helped to found, he has consulted to numerous private and governmental entities on health law and organizational matters, with emphasis on HMOs and other prepaid health and dental plans.
Professor Rosoff specializes in health law and policy and has written extensively in these subjects. He is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Legal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, and a member of editorial board of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. At various times in his career, Professor Rosoff has served as Senior Health Law Advisor to the Health Care Financing Administration (DHEW) and has been a visiting faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health and at Keio University Medical School in Tokyo, a Guest Scholar at The Brookings Institution, and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine. In 1999, he was a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD, in France, studying how advances in information technology are changing the practice of medicine. His recent research has focused on the expanding use of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and ways in which the electronic age is changing medical practice and physician-patient relationships. He has also won numerous teaching awards at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1998 received the Distinguished Health Law Teacher Award from the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Professor Rosoff’s principal current research is an international comparative study tracing the paths five selected nations took to achieve universal healthcare coverage for their citizens. The objective is to understand more fully why the United States has not attempted universal coverage and assess its chances of doing so in the future.
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