Research Fellow, Digital Home Health 2021 – 2023

David A. Simon, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., joined the Petrie-Flom Center’s Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Home Health in May 2021. As a Research Fellow, David oversees the day-to-day work of this project, including conducting law, policy, and ethics research; drafting reports and recommendations; and coordinating the Center’s world-wide collaboration with stakeholders from academia, non-profits, private industry, and the public sector.

David’s current research focuses on identifying and addressing the legal, ethical, and practical challenges involved in home-based diagnostic and monitoring technology. He is also working on projects related to alternative models for healthcare delivery and payment; equitable access to, and provision of, health care; regulation and innovation surrounding off-label drug use; and medical and legal understandings of “health information.” His research has been published, or is forthcoming, in a variety of legal and medical publications, including the Boston College Law Review, the Florida Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Journal of Law & the Biosciences, the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, the Washington Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

From 2020-2021, David was the Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellow & Visiting Associate Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. From 2019-2020, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law and a Fellow at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Before entering academia, David represented clients in corporate, real estate, and intellectual property transactions. His clients included hedge fund managers, investment firms, small businesses, professional athletes, homeless veterans, singers, songwriters, and artists. He also served as a volunteer attorney for Lawyers for the Creative Arts.  

David holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Summer Academic Fellow, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge International Scholar (full tuition scholarship & stipend) and member of Trinity College. He earned his B.A., with high honors, from the University of Michigan, and his J.D., with high honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was selected to the Moot Court Honor Society, Order of the Coif, and Dean’s List. During law school, he won several writing awards for work in constitutional law and intellectual property law.