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Mayo, Thomas Wm.

Associate Professor of Law

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Bio

Following graduation, Professor Mayo was an associate with the Rochester, New York, firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle and then served during 1979-80 as a law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was then associated with the Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling until 1984. In addition to his position at SMU, Professor Mayo is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Professor Mayo teaches courses in the areas of health care law, bioethics, medical-legal humanities, constitutional law, family law, administrative law, and legislation.

Primary Articles

SEX, MARRIAGE, MEDICINE, AND LAW: WHAT HOPE OF HARMONY?, 42 Washburn Law Journal 269-280 (2003).

THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS: HEALTH LAW’S GREATEST HITS, 50 Syracuse Law Review 1261 (2000).

 

Speeches/Presentations

"Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World," Texas Health Law Conference (State Bar of Texas and Texas Hospital Association), Austin, October 26, 2005.

“Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World,” invited lecture, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, October 25, 2005.

“Who Is A Person?”, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Dallas, September 14, 21, 28, 2005 (with John Norris and Frederick Grinnell).

"Bioethics: Ethical, Legal, and Medical Issues Implicated in End-of-Life Cases," Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys Seminar, July 27, 2005, Dallas.

"Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?", Grand Rounds, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Department of Neurology (July 8, 2005), Department of Internal Medicine (July 7, 2005), Little Rock.

“Ethical and Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Treatment in the Institutional Setting,” Annual Meeting, American Health Lawyers Association, San Diego, June 28, 2005.

“End of Life Decision Making,” Center for American and International Law, Plano, June 24, 2005.

“Medico-Legal Update,” Neonatology Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, June 9, 2005.

"Genetics & Law: The Year in (P)review,” Clinical Genetics Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, May 5, 2005.

“They Were Never Wrong, The Old Masters,” Duke University, Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Symposium: Beyond Measure -- Accounting for Suffering in the Context of Illness, Durham, April 29, 2005.

“Futility of Care,” 37th Annual Haltalin Pediatric Seminar, UT Southwestern Medical School & Department of Pediatrics, Irving, April 22, 2005.

"Ethics," Leadership Dallas: Health Care Day, March 4, 2005.

“Legal Ethics and Clinical Decision Making in a Technologically Advanced World,” Health and Hospital Systems Legal Institute, American Health Lawyers Association, Tucson, February 10, 2005.

“End-of-Life Care: What Every Physician Needs to Know,” Diagnostic Radiology Update, University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center, October 2004.

“Advance Directives: Problems and Solutions,” Tarrant County Academy of Medicine, Fort Worth, October 2004.

Keynote Address, “Ethics and the Trauma Patient,” General Opening Session, National Trauma Conference, Association of Operating Room Nurses, October 2004.

“Brain Dead, Medically Dead, Legally Dead, or Really Dead?,” 2003-2004 Medicine and the City Series, UT-Southwestern/Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Dallas, May 2004.

“Ethics in Pediatrics,” 5th Annual “Making A World of Difference” Conference, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, May 2004.

“Three Problems in Contemporary Bioethics,” SMU Godbey Lecture Series, Dallas, March/April 2004.

“Ethical Dilemmas in the NICU,” North Texas Association of Neonatal Nurses, Dallas, December 2003.

“End of Life Care: What Every Physician in Texas Needs to Know,” Annual Medical Staff Meeting, Plaza Medical Center, Fort Worth, December 2003.

“Bioethics, Fundamentals in Health Law Conference,” American Health Lawyers Association, Chicago, November 2003.

“Ethical Dilemmas in the NICU, Past, Present and Future: A Celebration of a Century of Neonatal Care,” Dallas, October 2003.

“End of Life Care: What Every Physician in Texas Needs to Know,” Texas Academy of Family Physicians, Irving, October 2003.

“Issues in Critical Ethics, Cardiac Update Symposium 2003,” Cardiopulmonary Research Science & Technology Institute, Las Colinas, September 2003.

“Baby Doe in the NICU,” Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas, August 2003.

“Ethics Consultation” at Parkland, Baylor, and Children’s Medical Center, Ethics Grand Rounds, UT-Southwestern Medical School of Dallas, May 2003.

“Medical Ethics & Literature,” Ethics Discussion Forum, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, March 2003.

 

Other

Book Chapters:

BIOETHICS, in Fundamentals of Health Law, 411-430 (3rd ed. 2004).

ETHICAL ASPECTS OF NEUROSURGICAL PRACTICE, in Textbook of Neurological Surgery, Batjer & Loftus, eds. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002) (with Howard Morgan, M.D.).

BIOETHICS, in Fundamentals of Health Law (2d ed., 2000).

DETERMINATION OF DEATH: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES, in Essentials of Pediatric Intensive Care (Levin & Morriss, 2d ed., 1997).

WITHHOLDING AND WITHDRAWING LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT: LEGAL ISSUES, in Essentials of Pediatric Intensive Care (Levin & Morriss, 2d ed., 1997).

Section Editor, SECTION 15 (“ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES), Essentials of Pediatric Intensive Care (Levin & Morriss, 2d ed., 1997) (8 chapters).

Articles:

MEDICAL FUTILITY IN THE NICU: HOPE FOR A RESOLUTION, 116 Pediatrics 1219 (2005) (with Robert L. Fine et al.)

HEALTH INSURANCE AND CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION: A CALL FOR REFORM, 45 J. Am. Coll. Cardiology 1388 (2005) (with Louise P. King et al.)

U.S. SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER HMOS CAN BE SUED FOR NEGLIGENT TREATMENT DECISIONS, 8 Mealey’s Man. Care Liab. Rep 26-29 (March 2004).

COMMENTARY, CHANGING PROFESSIONAL VALUES, 22 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal 1096-1098 (Dec. 2003).

HEALTH CARE LAW, SURVEY OF TEXAS LAW, 56 SMU Law Review 1767-1782 (2003).

RESOLUTION OF FUTILITY BY DUE PROCESS: EARLY EXPERIENCE WITH THE TEXAS ADVANCE DIRECTIVES ACT, 138 Annals of Internal Medicine 743-746 (May 2003) (with Robert Fine, M.D.).

U.S. SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW KENTUCKY’S “ANY WILLING PROVIDER LAW,” Mealey’s Managed Care Reporter (2002).

“HEALTH LAW,” SURVEY OF TEXAS LAW, 55 SMU Law Review 1113 (2002).

“HEALTH LAW,” SURVEY OF TEXAS LAW, 53 SMU Law Review 1101 (2000).

SYMPOSIUM ON STATUTORY INTERPRETATION: FOREWORD, 53 SMU Law Review (2000).

QUI TAM ON THE LAM: FIFTH CIRCUIT FIRE THE FIRST SALVO - WILL THE SUPREME COURT BE NEXT?, Matthew Bender Health Care Law Monthly (Dec. 1999).

LIFE-AND-DEATH DECISIONS, 75 Texas Medicine 64 (Nov. 1999) (with Robert Fine, M.D.).

“HEALTH LAW,” SURVEY OF TEXAS LAW, 52 SMU Law Review 1259 (1999).

TEXAS’ NEW PHYSICIAN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING STATUTE – HELPING TO FATTEN PHYSICIANS’ WALLETS AND MAKE PATIENTS’ LEANER, Matthew Bender Health Care Law Monthly 3 (Sept. 1999).

TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR THE DYING PATIENT: MEDICAL ETHICS AND THE LAW, 11 Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 175 (1998) (with Robert Fine, M.D.)

“HEALTH LAW,” SURVEY OF TEXAS LAW, 50 SMU Law Review 1275 (with Max Maxwell, 1997).

 



Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.A., 1971, Amherst College
J.D., 1977, Syracuse University College of Law