Education:
M.A. (bioethics), Medical College of Wisconsin
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Johns Hopkins University

Professor Gatter, who joined the Penn State Dickinson faculty in 2000, is one of the nation’s leading young scholars in the field of health care law. Professor Gatter’s scholarship has explored issues of end-of-life decisions, informed consent, human subject research, medical mediation and organ transplantation. He recently completed an analysis of using law to promote trust in medicine. Professor Gatter teaches courses in contract law, the regulation of the health care industry and law and medicine.

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Selected Publications:
The Mysterious Survival of the Law's Policy Against Imposing Informed Consent Duties on Hospitals, 81 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1203 (2006)

Conflicts of Interest in International Human Drug Research and the Insufficiency of International Protections, 32 Am. J. L & Med. 351 (2006)

Faith, Confidence, and Health Care: Fostering Trust in Medicine through Law, 39 Wake Forest L. Rev. 395 (2004)

Walking the Talk of Trust in Human Subjects Research: The Challenge of Regulating Financial Conflicts of Interest, 52 Emory L. J. 327 (2003)