Dennis A. Robbins Ph.D., M.P.H.

2210 E SHEA

Phoenix, AZ 85028

Tel: (602) 368-6455 Fax: (602) 368-6433 E-Mail DennisRobbins@cox.net

Website: DennisRobbins.com

 

Biography

      Dennis A. Robbins is a nationally recognized health care innovator, strategist and thought leader with over three decades of experience in health care. His Ph.D. from Boston College is complemented by postdoctoral MPH training in ethics and health law as a National Fund for Medical Education Fellow in the Kennedy Interfaculty Program at Harvard and as a Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow in the Division of Health Law and Policy . Dr. Robbins' extensive work on the interface of ethics with quality, liability, payment systems, new technologies, health law, integrative medicine and health policy is complimented by an eclectic blend of academic and business experience. He serves or has served as an advisor for major national organizations, associations, law firms, hospital systems, and insurers and government He has been an advisor to the President’s Commission on Ethical Issues in Biomedicine, Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and the White House Educational Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as other healthcare advisory boards and foundations.  Dr. Robbins has chaired the Scientific Advisory Boards of two emerging health care technology companies and is one the Board of Directors for one. He has been a respected thought leader influential in healthcare change, developing agendas, shaping legislation and creating model policies and procedures at state and national levels.

 

Dr. Robbins has authored nine books and over 250 articles, chapters and reviews in healthcare ethics, and has served as a columnist and national advisor for several healthcare journals. He writes a column on ethics for the Journal of Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality. He was honored by Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine as among the top ten “keenest thinkers” in managed care and his work has been praised in other national media.

       

       

 

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE 

 

Harvard University Schools of Medicine/Public Health               Postdoctoral Masters of Public Health Jan 1980,

      Boston, MA                                                                           Visiting Scholar & Research Fellow in Ethics 79-80 

 

Boston College                                                                                     Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy - June 1974

        Chestnut Hill, MA                                                                with high distinction

 

University of Oklahoma                                                                      Master of Arts - June 1972

        Norman, OK                                                                                          (Major:  Philosophy)

 

University of North Texas                                                                  Bachelor of Arts - June 1970

        Denton, TX                                                                                           (Major:  Philosophy)

 

University of Mississippi Law School                                             Several Law School Courses  1981-1983

       

 

WORK EXPERIENCE (non-academic)

 

Integrated Decisions, Ethics, Alternatives                                      President            1983 - Present

        and Solutions (IDEAS)

Scottsdale, AZ, Farmington Hills, MI, Westmont IL                     Duties:  Keynote Speaker, Author and Consultant in Healthcare Ethics, Law and Health Policy. Seminar development and presentations for government, teaching hospitals and state and national organizations. Worked extensively in policy development and medical risk management. Offered seminars nationwide and consulted with such organizations as HCFA (CMS) the JCAHO, the AMA. The ACHE, the AHA. Board member of several editorial boards. Government relations and marketing strategy advisor to international diagnostics company as well as marketing and reimbursement design advisor to start up non invasive Cardiology technology manufacturer. Chair of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Subcommittee of Scientific advisory board of Genomics Company

 

The Policy Group, LLC                                                            Co-Founder             2004-Present

Duties: Develop strategic initiatives to position a company to achieve adequate and timely reimbursement. Assist clients to create valuable relationships with payers, business, and government. Offer customized solutions to secure relationships with national Payers, supporting key introductions with influential thought leaders, change agents, and centers of influence. Help clients to expand existing markets and identify new markets, demonstrating the effectiveness value of products and technology. Help accelerate client endeavors in reimbursement strategy both pre-and post- approval, help identify and solve issues before they can become problems, cultivate coding change applications and reimbursement, target strategic alliances of behalf of clients, cultivate strategic relationships with payers and centers of influence, assist clients with high level networking, provide introductions to strategic partners and policymakers, serve as barometers to anticipate political trends and change and influence national policy development.

 

Time Inc.                                                                                 District Sales Manager    1964-1968

Duties:   Responsible for Time Life Books innovative sales experiment in states of VA. W. Va. MD. DC, and PA.  Formerly assistant manager in Dallas office and Manager in PA Developed marketing and attrition strategies and materials for nascent Time Life Books program.  Coordinated findings with HQ n NY

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Arizona State University                                                        Adjunct Professor  School of Business   2005-

         Tempe, AZ

                                                                                              Duties: Teach Ethics and Health Law Course in W.P Carey Graduate School of Business Program

 

Loyola University Medical Center                                                    Adjunct Associate Professor   1994 - 2000

        Maywood, IL

                                                                                                                Duties:  Teach Courses (Selectives) to fourth year medical students. Taught in first year ethics sequence. Participated in and/or offered various ethics grand rounds

 

Wayne State University and Affiliated Hospitals                       Adjunct Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine  Detroit, MI                                                                         and Clinical Ethicist VAMC   1985 - 1989

 

                                                                                                                Duties:  Taught Medical Ethics, participated in grand rounds and medical and surgical reports. Clinical Ethicist for the VA Medical Center and Director of Medical Ethics for MICU, SICU, CCU,  Pulmonary and Oncology Units at Sinai Hospital

 

Salve Regina College                                                                           Associate Professor and Director of 

        Newport, RI                                                                                   Graduate Program-Health Administration 83 - 85

 

                                                                                                                Duties:  Directed program in Health Administration, including budgeting, hiring, counseling and curriculum design.  Taught courses in Ethics, Health Law, Health Policy, Health Finance, Health Economics and Health Care Services Administration.

                                                                                                               

University of Mississippi                                                                   Associate Professor        1981- 1983

        Oxford, MS                                                                                   

                                                                                                                Duties:  Part of  Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Studies and Department of Health Services Administration. Taught courses in Legislation and Policy, Ethics, Health Services and Health Law.  Also served as section editor for the Journal of Emergency Nursing (1979-82) and Associate Editor for MacNews Update - A computer software review publication (1979-1982).

 

 

Harvard University                                                                              National Fund for Medical Education Fellow and Research Fellow in Medical Ethics in the         

        Boston, MA                                                                                  Kennedy Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics. Assisted Francis Glessner Lee Professor Wm. J. Curran Law Medicine Notes Editor of the New England Medical  Journal and Co-coordinated Clinical Ethics Rounds at Childrens’ Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Assisted in Ethics in Geriatrics Course and in Community Health

                                                                                                                Improvement Program      1979-1980

 

University of North Carolina                                                              Assistant Professor

        Wilmington, NC                                                                          

                                                                                                                Duties:  taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion courses in Ethics and Biomedical Ethics.  Designed conferences and community education programs. 1975 - 1979

 

Northeastern University                                                                    Taught ethics and Medical ethics related                         Boston, MA                                                                                 courses 1974-1975

 

Boston College                                                                                     Teaching Fellow  1972 - 1974

        Chestnut Hill, MA                                                                      

                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

ETHICS AND HEALTH LAW-SPECIFIC TRAINING/CONSULTATION

 

YEAR LONG POSTDOCTORAL ETHICS FELLOWSHIP

Fellow in Kennedy Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics through the Division of Legal Medicine at Harvard.

Other Fellowships include  Hogg Fellowship at UT Galveston and an NEH Fellowship at University of Kentucky

 

FORMAL COURSEWORK IN LAW AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

·         Human Rights in Health (Harvard School Public Health)

·         Law and Medicine (Harvard Medical School)

·         Law and Public Policy (Harvard School Public Health)

·         Torts I  

·         Torts II

·         Health Law

·         Law and Political Process

·         Products Liability

·         Law and Government

·         Jurisprudence

 

FORMAL COURSEWORK IN ETHICS

·         Ph.D. in Philosophy

·         Year-long Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Ethics at Harvard

·         Coursework in School of Public Health and School of Medicine including

·         Ethics in Geriatrics

·         Foundations of Decision Theory and Cost Benefit Analysis

·         Uncertainty in Psychiatry

·         Inducing Social Change

·         Health Regulation and Policy

 

ETHICS CONTENT ADVISOR FOR NATIONAL PROGRAMS

·         National Managed Healthcare Congress

·         The Joint Commission

·         The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians

·         Mosby

·         Medical Media Associates

·         Medical Education Resources International

·         Case Management Society of America

·         McGraw-Hill

·         Hill-Rom

·         Bimark

·         Blue Cross

·         Medical Auditors

 

ETHICS/ HEALTH LAW INTERFACE EXPERIENCE

 

LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT (ACTIVE DEVELOPING/INFLUENCING ETHICS-SPECIFIC LEGISLATION)

·         Maine

·         Massachusetts

·         Rhode Island

·         West Virginia

·         Kentucky

·         New Jersey

·         New York

·         The Presidents Commission on Ethical Issues in Biomedicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research

 

EXPERT WITNESS/ADVISOR

·         Expert on ethical issues in managed care

·         Advisor to prominent law firms and hospital systems of end of life decision making and conflict resolution policy development

·         Involved in developing U.S. Supreme Ct Brief on case to be heard February 2000 involving fiduciary duty and direct financial incentives

·         Served as a consultant or advisor to such risk management and health organizations as: HCA, AMI, Southern Medical Association, American Society of Law and Medicine, and The President's Commission on the Ethical Issues in Biomedicine and Behavioral Research.

·         Worked closely with Wm. J. Curran, the editor of "Health Law Notes" at the New England Medical Journal.

 AWARDS, GRANTS, & ADVISORY BOARDS

 

Zyto Corp (Scientific advisory Board and later Board Member)

Genomics company advisory Board Member

Health Care Dimensions Advisory Board (501C3)

National Managed Healthcare Congress Advisory Board

Scientific Advisory Board, Genomed, Chr. Ethical Legal & Social Implications, &Business Devel. Subcommittees

Editorial Board, Managed Healthcare and Managed Healthcare Executive 

American Board of QA and UR Physicians Journal Advisory Board

Advisor and Consultant to Cardiobeat, cardiology technology startup

NMHCC Disease Management Advisory Board.

Bimark/Novartis Managed Care 2000 Advisory/Editorial Board 

CME Advisory Board for Certification Exam for American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians and the National Board of Medical Examiners 1998

Editorial Board, Home Health Care Management and Practice 1996

Associate Editor MacNews Update, 1983-1986

Advisory Board, Medical Education Resources International 1982-1984

Grant from Michigan Department of Aging 1983

Grant from Michigan Department of Health 1983

Secured funding for Minister of Health and other visiting dignitaries from Soviet Far East from Johnson and Johnson, AMA, pharmaceutical companies and DME suppliers 1990 and 1991

Legal and Ethical Controversies in Long Term Care Conference Windsor ONT 1986

Hogg Foundation Fellowship University of Texas Galveston 1980

National Fund for Medical Education Fellowship (1 of 3 nationally) 1980

Fellow in Kennedy Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics

AAAS/NSF Chautauqua Award 1977

Full Teaching Fellowship Boston College University

National Endowment for the Humanities Award in Ethics and Allied Health Professions 1981

North Carolina Humanities Council Grant for Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedicine, 76

National Fund for Medical Education Fellowship 1979

Research Fellowship in Medical Ethics, Harvard 1980

Visiting Scholar, Harvard 1979

National Advisory Board Committee for National Endowment for the Humanities 1979-1980

Section Editor in Medical Ethics Journal of Emergency Nursing 1980-1983

 

SELECTED KEYNOTES

National Managed Healthcare Congresses (several)

JCAHO National Long Term Care and Assisted Living Meeting

JCAHO National Home Care and Hospice

Healthcare Financial Management Assn

American Board of QA and UR Physicians (several)

National Medical Auditors Assn

American Hospital Assn

Case Management Society of America

National Society for Medical Auditors

Indiana Managed Care Task Force

Mosby Case Management National Meeting

National Managed Health Care Congresses

National Managed Care Disease Management Congress 

Texas Case Mgt Assn TRACM

National Community Behavioral Health Conference

International Managed Care Congress

National Blue Cross Medical Directors’ Meeting

Blue Cross 17 state Meeting for Medical Directors CEOs and Board Members

URAC

Parke Davis Medical Directors’ Retreat

Several National American Board Of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Meetings

International Managed Healthcare Congress

NMHCC CEO Summit

The New York Homecare Strategic Alliance Conference

Case Management Assn. National Conference

American Assn. of Homes and Services for the Aging

Battle Creek Health Care Systems and VA Medical Center

Magadan USSR-Ministry of Health Magadan Soviet Far East

Bilibina, Chukotka,  Arctic Circle USSR

Northern California Hospital Assn

Kentucky Hospital Assn

New England Society of Hospital Social Work Directors

West Virginia Health Care Association

New England Region Society for Hospital Social Work Directors

N J Citizens Bioethics Advisory Committee & Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center

Illinois Health Care Assn

Maine Department Social Services  Mental Health and Mental Retardation and Adult Protective Services Divisions Conference for Maine Probate Judges Court Reporters & state based guardians

Michigan Non Profit Homes Assn.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

·         BOOKS

 

Menke, JM and Dennis A. Robbins Integrative Chiropractic: An Invitation to Colloborate, St. Louis, Elsevier in press 2006

 

Robbins, Dennis A. Putting Healthcare Promises into Practice: Strategies and Innovations for Better Managing Care  in press, Delmar Publishers, February 2000

 

Robbins, Dennis A . Managed Care On Trial: Recapturing Trust, Integrity and Accountability in Healthcare  McGraw Hill June 1998

 

Robbins, Dennis A.  Integrating Managed Care and Ethics: Transforming Challenges Into Positive Outcomes McGraw Hill  March 1998

 

Robbins, Dennis A.  Ethical and Legal  Issues in Home Care and Long Term Care: Challenges and Solutions  Gaithersburg MD  Aspen  Systems 1996

 

Robbins, Dennis A. Legal & Ethical Issues in Cancer Care, Springfield: Charles Thomas, August 1983.

 

Robbins, Dennis A.  ed. w Allen Dyer, M.D., Ph.D. Ethical Dimensions of Clinical Medicine, (primary author)., Springfield: Charles Thomas August 1981.

 

Robbins, Dennis A. Ethical Issues in Biomedicine and Related Areas edited conference proceedings 1978

 

    •      CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics and Integrative Medicine” Integrative Chiropractic: An Invitation to Colloborate by Michael Menke and Dennis Robbins, St. Louis, Elsevier 2006

 

Robbins, Dennis A. and Douglas Emery “Fiscal Arrogance and Capitation: Are there Ethical and Economic Antidotes? in: Global Fees for Episodes of Care: New Approaches to Health Care Finance  Douglas W. Emery editor McGraw Hill Sept 1998

 

Robbins Dennis.A. and Mangum R. “Ethics and the New Synergy of Rehabilitation” The Joint American Hospital Assn/ American Rehabilitation Assn Proceedings AHA Publishing 1995

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Care of Patients of Diminished Competence” Alzheimers Disease and   Dementia  Plenum Press , 1987.

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Legal and Ethical Issues in Terminal Illness Care for Patients, Families  Caregivers and Institutions” in Loss and Anticipatory Grief  (ed.  Therese Rando ) D.C. Heath . 1986.

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Examining Rights of the Terminally Ill Incompetent Patient:  Legal and Ethical   Considerations,” with John Blum, J.D., S.M., in Ethical Dimensions of Clinical

Medicine, Charles Thomas, 1981

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Uncertainty:  An Unresolved Problem in Clinical Medicine and  Ethics,” in Ethical Dimensions of Clinical Medicine, Charles Thomas, 1981.

 

Blum, J. and Robbins, Dennis A. “Institutional and Personnel Licensure in Hospice” in Hospice Policy and Public Programs ed. by Paul Torrens  Chicago: AHA 1984                                               

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “A Prototype For Identifying And Adjudicating Ethical Conflict: The Robbins Model for Decision-Making”, in Grief, Dying and Bereavement: Clinical Interventions for Care Givers by Therese Rando, Ph.D., Research Press,  Champaign, IL., 1984 pp 420-30

 

•  ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:

Robbins, Dennis A, “Healthcare Cost and Quality” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Sept/Oct 2006

Robbins, Dennis A, and Joel Brill MD   “Medication Therapy Management: Challenge and Opportunity” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Jan/Feb 2006

 

 Robbins, Dennis A, Mark Pilley  MD,Joel Brill MD   Integrity, Disparity and Payment, J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare March/April 2006

 

Joel Brill and Robbins Dennis A “Specialty Pharmaceuticals: Tip of the Ethical Iceberg” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare May/ June 2006 “

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Recapture the Power of Ethics” J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare July/Aug 2006

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Healthcare cost and Quality”  J Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare Sept oct/October 2006

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Healthy Advice from the 4^th Century BC” Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare     2006

 

Robbins, Dennis A and Joel Brill, Part D and “Consumerism, Patient Safety and Quality” Healthcare 2006  w/Brill

 

Robbins, Dennis A and Joel V. Brill, MD “Assessing the Price of Paying for Performance” w/Brill   Managed Healthcare Executive 2006

Robbins, Dennis A and Joel V. Brill, MD ““Part D and Health Care Literacy:  It’s Not As Easy as 1, 2, 3” Managed Healthcare Executive  Fall 2005

 

Robbins, Dennis A Hippocrates, Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, Nov December 2005

Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics: From Toothless Barking to Problem Solving Tool”, Journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare  February 2005

Robbins, Dennis A” Towards an Ethics of Helping and Healing” Continuing Care November/December 2000

Robbins, Dennis A “Weaving Wellness Into Mainstream Medicine” Managed Healthcare August 2000

Robbins, Dennis A “Taking the High Road” Continuing Care July/August 2000 pp 22-26 (cover story)

Robbins, Dennis A “Judging the Future: Supreme Court’s Decision in Herdrich v Pegram Could Shape Managed Care in the 21^st Century”, Continuing Care March 2000

Robbins, Dennis A “The Herdrich Care: A Potpourri of Ethical Issues before the US Supreme Ct” ,Continuing Care, February 2000.

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting Care Above Profit: Revisiting Advocacy, Denial of Payment and Compromised Care” Continuing Care April 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting Promises into Practice   Continuing Care   September 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Avoiding the Appearance of Wrongdoing” Managed Healthcare October 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A.” Venturing Through the Thicket of Legal Liability: An Update on Goodrich V Aetna”  Managed Healthcare August 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics, Innovation, and Fitness? C’mon!”, Managed Healthcare May 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting Care Above Profit: Revisiting Advocacy, Denial of Payment and Compromised Care” Continuing Care April 1999 (cover story)

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “The Silent PPO” Managed Healthcare  June 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Legal Issues: News article Karen Johnson and Goodrich” Managed Healthcare, March 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Hippocrates: Friend or Foe of Managed Care? Managed Healthcare” 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. "American Healthcare at the Crossroads" Managed Healthcare, January 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A. "Does Managed Care Care? Managed Care On Trial", Health Care Review May 1998

 

Robbins, Dennis A. "Ethical Issues in Care: Unpacking Hidden and Aberrant Agendas" Homecare March 1996

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Putting Healthcare Promises into Practice September 1999 Continuing Care pp 14-18

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Ethical Issues in Physician Capitation” (Letter) New England Journal of Medicine Jan 28, 1999

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Managed Care in Transition: Transforming Adversity into Opportunity”, Managed Healthcare, December 1998

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Does Managed Care Care? Managed Care On Trial”, Health Care Review May 1998

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Ethical Issues in Homecare” Home Health Management and Practice Jan 1998

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Managing Information Technologies: Ethical Concerns” The Remington Report ,November 1996

 

Robbins, Dennis A "Ethics and Managed Home Care: Unpacking Hidden and Aberrant Agendas" Homecare  March 1996

               

Robbins, Dennis A “Managed Care and Patient Rights'-Feature Article Home Health care Business Report 1996

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Ethics and Managed Care: A Contradiction?” Homecare March 1996

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “The DeGrella Case: New Implications and Opportunities for Healthy Reform in

Kentucky”: Kentucky Hospitals Fall 1993  pp. 14-18

 

Robbins, Dennis A “The Edge of Life: Advance Directives Protocols and the Patient Self Determination Act” Kentucky Hospitals  Winter 1992

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Do Advance Directives Have more Rights than Patients  Kentucky Hospitals), Winter 1992

 

Robbins, Dennis A Are Rights Wrong?” Kentucky Hospitals January 1991

 

Robbins, Dennis A “The Integrated Policy” Invited article HCA Risk Management Review (Hospital Corporation of America),  May June 1989

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Do EMT's Have A Duty To Resuscitate?” Kentucky Hospitals Spring 1989

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Policies to Integrate Clinical and Administrative Ethics” Michigan Hospitals December 1988  pp.19-24 

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Do EMT's Have A Duty To Resuscitate?” Kentucky Hospitals  Spring 1989 pp. 14-17.

 

Robbins, Dennis A “New Policies for Withholding/ Withdrawing Life Supports” Provider -Fall Issue  1988

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Patients Wishes and Clinical Ethics” Kentucky Hospitals  Fall 1988”

 

Robbins, Dennis A “New Perspectives on DNR”  Kentucky Hospitals Winter 1988    

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Autonomy and Authority: New Directions in Substitute Decision Making” Kentucky Hospitals, Volume 2. Issue 4,  Special  Legislative Issue,  Fall 1985 ,pp. 10-13

 

Robbins, Dennis A w/Lora  Robbins, M.S., L.S. H.S.A. “Dealing With Older Persons’ Fear of Medical Environments” Kentucky Hospitals, JU 1986

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Agonizing over Ethical Dilemmas or Developing Administrative  Policies to  Provide  Guidance: It's Your Choice!”, Kentucky Hospitals ,Winter Issue ,1985

 

Robbins, Dennis A. Feature Article - “Update:  The Removal of Feeding Supports in Long-Term

Facilities,” Journal of Long-Term Care  Administration  Spring, 1985, pp. 3-7

 

Robbins, Dennis A “ w/ T. Gidley, LL.B “Must We Resuscitate Every Patient?, Journal of Emergency Nursing June 1984

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Legal and Ethical Considerations in Emergency Care”  J  Emergency Services December 1984

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Must Emergency Departments Save Every Life?”, Journal of the RI Medical  Society  December 1984

 

Robbins, Dennis A “The Convoluted Scope of Emergency Care,”  Journal of Emergency Nursing,  January 1984

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Reevaluating Talk of “Rights” in Medical Care”, Journal of Emergency Nursing,, January 83

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Uncertainty & Ethics:  Implications for the Provision of Care,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, June 83

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Pain Control:  Information, Palliation or Toxification?,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, January-February 1982

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Ethics and the Emergency Department  Nurse,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, May-June 1982  p. 100-103

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Reduced Federal Monies:  Conflicts in Ethics and Policy,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, July-August 1982

 

Robbins, Dennis A ““Ethical Questions Surrounding  Neighborhood Emergency Centers': Balancing Access  With Quality,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, September-October 1982

 

Robbins, Dennis A w/John Blum J.D, Regulation: Current Laws Hold Key to Hospice Licensure Hospitals December 1, 1982

 

Robbins, Dennis A w/ M.Hanson R.N. &. P.Weiss M.D. “Ethical Issue of Emergency Care,”, Journal of Emergency Nursing, June 1981

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Cost Containment and Terminal Care:  An Essay Into The Ethics Of Appropriateness,” Journal of Long-Term Care Administration, December  1981

 

Robbins, Dennis A and Blum J. “Court Intervention & the Diminution of Patients' Rights”,  New England Journal of  Medicine, February 26, 1981

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Dumping the Dope of Overdosed Patients, Journal of Emergency Nursing November/December 1981

 

Robbins, Dennis A “Smoking, Nursing Professionalism and Ethics,”  Journal of Emergency Nursing,,  March 1981

 

Robbins, Dennis A. “Hospice Licensure and Regulation,  The Omega Report, February1980

 

 Robbins, Dennis A  w/ John Blum  “Developing a Model Geriatrics Patients' Bill of Rights” Patients' Rights Digest, M 80

 

Robbins, Dennis A “A Contemporary Dilemma in Regulation and Ethics” Omega Report,  February., 1980

 

 

ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT MY WORK IN NATIONAL JOURNALS

 

Two interviews in Medical Economics 2006

 

Listed as among top ten thinkers in Managed Care Nationally October 1999 in Managed Health Care Magazine

 

National Worker Comp Magazine by David Caine on Legal and Ethical Issues in Capitation and Managed Care 1999

 

“Interview on New Perspectives on Do Not Resuscitate, Hospital Ethics, American Hospital Assn.  May 1988 (by Don Phillips, editor)

 

“Ethical Decisions via Rounds and Consults, Hospital Ethics, American Hospital Assn. September/October 1986 (by Don Phillips, editor)

 

“The Integrated Policy” Hospital Ethics, American Hospital Assn. September/October 1987

 

 

 

 

CONSULTATIONS

 

I have offered a wide range of grand rounds, consultations with administrative and clinical staff, developed educational programs, offered seminars and/or developed policies and procedures in the following settings

 

A. With National Health Care Organizations

Zyto Corporation

Becton Dickenson (BD)

American Medical Assn

Silver Sneakers<