Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School. He is a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP and serves as faculty co-chair of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard. Barnes previously served as the senior associate provost for research and senior research officer for Harvard University and taught at Harvard Law School, and in 2004 was the founding executive director of the Harvard AIDS treatment programs in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Botswana. He has served as the executive vice president and chief administrative officer of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; has held senior appointed positions in the New York City and New York State Departments of Health; and was the acting director of the Harvard Primate Center.