Professor Marshall B. Kapp

Marshall B. Kapp is the Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law & Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Law and School of Medicine. He is Professor Emeritus from the School of Medicine at Wright State University, where, from 1980 through 2003, he was a faculty member in the Departments of Community Health and Psychiatry and taught courses on the legal and ethical aspects of health care. He also was Director of WSU's Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and held an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Dayton School of Law. From 1998-2001, he was designated Wright State University’s Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Service.

Professor Kapp is the author or co-author of a substantial number of published articles, book chapters, and reviews. He was the founding editor (2000-2005) of the ETHICS, LAW, AND AGING REVIEW (formerly the Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging, 1994-1999 formerly published by Springer Publishing Company and founding editor (1994-2006) of Springer's Book Series on Ethics, Law and Aging. Additionally, he is the present Editor of the Journal of Legal Medicine, the official scholarly publication of the American College of Legal Medicine, as well as the Associate Editor of the “Liability” section of the International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the American College of Legal Medicine and currently serves as Secretary of the American Society on Aging.

During the 1987-88 academic year Professor Kapp was on Professional Development Leave as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Fellow in Health Care Finance. In 1997, he received the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management Award for Writing Excellence as Author of the Year from the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. In 1998, he was named Ohio Researcher of the Year by the Ohio Research Council in Aging. In 2003, he received the Donald Kent Award of the Gerontological Society of America for exemplifying “the highest standards for professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society.”

Kapp was educated at Johns Hopkins University (B.A.), George Washington University Law School (J.D. with Honors), and Harvard University School of Public Health (M.P.H.)