Associate Professor and Director
Program in L a w and Medicine
Center for Biomedical Ethics
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Barringer Hall, 5 th Floor
434 982 4227
PAL8G@VIRGINIA.EDU

Professor Lombardo teaches courses both at the School of Medicine and the School of Law on topics including Genetics and the Law, the History of Bioethics, Health Law, Legal and Ethical Regulation of Research and Law & Psychiatry.

His recent publications have dealt with a variety of issues in health law, history, and bioethics, particularly the history of eugenics and the legal and ethical issues surrounding ongoing research in genetics.

He has served on a variety of national panels, such as the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study the Need for Clinical Trials of Testosterone Replacement Therapy, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Clinical Trial Special Emphasis Panel, as well as study sections of the National Institute for Drug Abuse and the National Institute for Mental Health. As an historian he served on the Editorial Advisory Panel for the Digital Archive of the History of Eugenics and was a contributor and consultant for the US Memorial Holocaust Museum Exhibit , Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.  

He currently sits on the Central Beryllium IRB of the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Library of Medicine Special Emphasis Panel for Historical Publication Grants Review, and the Ethics Review Panel of the Shanghai Health Study, Fudan University , Republic of China. He chairs the Biodiversity Policy Panel for "Altering Nature: How Religious Traditions Assess the New Biotechnologies," a Ford Foundation project at Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine. Lombardo was a Visiting Professor at Aga Khan University , Karachi , Pakistan in October, 2004.

Lombardo has been a historical consultant for several films, including, Race: the Power of an Illusion Part I, "The Difference Between Us" (PBS, April 2003) and most recently, The Golden Door (Memento Films, Paris, 2005) a feature film that explores the impact of eugenic screening on early 20th Century immigrants at Ellis Island .

He received his A.B. from Rockhurst College , his M.A. from Loyola University of Chicago and both his Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Virginia . From 1985-1990 he practiced law in California . He returned to the University of Virginia as a faculty member in 1990 .