Dan Bustillos, JD, PhD
Dan Bustillos is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics, with a secondary appointment in the Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health. He completed his PhD in Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center, and recently finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine as well as the Medical Law and Ethics Fellowship at UTMB. Dr. Bustillos was both an adjunct and research professor at the University of Houston’s Health Law & Policy Institute and has been an Institutional Review Board member for several years. He teaches courses in public health ethics, informed consent and surrogate decision-making, medical humanities, and cross-cultural understanding in the clinical context. Dr. Bustillos’ research interests are broad though lately he’s been studying health disparities in health care and research. He is currently working on a multi-million dollar project based at Baylor College of Medicine to eliminate disparities in clinical trials.
Research
Co-investigator, “Exploring the Clinical Practice of Peer-Identified Expert Nurses” – Research Protocol undertaken at UTMB, 2004.
Physician Oncology Education Program, TalkBalk survey of Texas Physicians to Assess Cultural Competency Resources, Texas Medical Association, 2006.
Physician Oncology Education Program, TalkBalk survey of Texas Physicians to Assess Knowledge of HPV Vaccine, Texas Medical Association, Summer 2007.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Bustillos, Dan. “The Modern History of Human Subjects Research.” Society of Clinical Research Associates Journal, forthcoming 2008.
Westin, Shannon N., Dan Bustillos, Jacalyn B. Gano, Margaret M. Fields, Ann L. Coker, Charlotte C. Sun, and Louis M. Ramondetta. “Social Factors Affecting Treatment of Cervical Cancer: Ethical Issues and Policy Implications.” Obstetrics & Gynecology 111, no. 3 (2008): 747-51.
Books & Monographs
Winslade, William J., Daniel Bustillos, Amy L. McGuire, and E. Bernadette McKinney. The Texas Medical Jurisprudence Examination: A Self-Study Guide, Galveston: The Institute for the Medical Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 2004.
Reviews
Daniel Bustillos, Clone Identities Review of Levick, Stephen E. “Clone Being: Exploring the Psychological and Social Dimensions” Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. The Lancet 364, no. 9429 (2004): 132.
Daniel Bustillos, Genetic Databases Review of Tutton, Richard and Oonagh Corrigan (Eds.). “Genetic databases: Socio-ethical issues in the collection and use of DNA” New York: Routledge, 2004. The Lancet 364, no. 9432 (2004): 408.
Internet-Only Publications
Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials: A Policy Primer, Baylor College of Medicine, EDICT Reading Room, 2006. Available at: http://www.bcm.edu/edict/readingroom.html
Surveying the Policy Landscape for Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials, Baylor College of Medicine, EDICT Reading Room, 2006. Available at: http://chronic.bcm.tmc.edu/edict/readingroom.html
The “Three R’s” of Clinical Trial Participation: An Organizing Framework, Baylor College of Medicine, EDICT Reading Room, 2006. Available at: http://www.bcm.edu/edict/readingroom.html
Quid Pro Quo: Medicare Proposes Coverage Guidelines that Would Require Beneficiary Participation in Data Registry, University of Houston Law Center, Health Law & Policy Institute’s Health Law Perspectives Internet Library, 2005. Available at: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/June2005/(DB)MedicareCoverageBeneficiaryParticipation.pdf
State-Mandated Cultural Competency Courses: How Some States are Addressing Cross-Cultural Clinical Ethics and Health Care Disparities, University of Houston Law Center, Health Law & Policy Institute’s Health Law Perspectives Internet Library, 2005. Available at: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/August2005/(DB)CulturalCompetency.pdf
Destroying Unused, Unopened Prescription Drugs at Taxpayer Expense: An Update, University of Houston Law Center, Health Law & Policy Institute’s Health Law Perspectives Internet Library, 2005. Available at: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/August2005/(DB)DrugDestruction.pdf
Disasters and Disease: The Public Health Law During States of Emergency, University of Houston Law Center, Health Law & Policy Institute’s Health Law Perspectives Internet Library, 2005. Available at: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/September2005/(DB)Disasters.pdf
Public Health Emergency Powers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, University of Houston Law Center, Health Law & Policy Institute’s Health Law Perspectives Internet Library, 2005. Available at: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/September2005/(DB)KatrinaandPublicHealth.pdf
Privacy and Consent Concerns in Genetic Databanks, University of Houston Law Center, Health Law & Policy Institute’s Health Law Perspectives Internet Library, 2005. Available at: http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/August2005/(DB)GeneticDatabanks.pdf
Department of Health Care Ethics
Mailing Address: Department of Health Care Ethics
221 North Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103-2006
Campus address: O'Brien Hall, Frost Campus
Telephone: (314) 977-6661
Fax: (314) 977-5150
