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Robert N. Swidler, Esq.
General Counsel & V.P. for Legal Affairs Northeast Health Northeast Health is a health care system in New York's Capital Region composed of Albany Memorial Hospital, Samaritan Hospital and The Eddy -- an innovative continuum of long term care and residential services for seniors. As General Counsel, Mr. Swidler provides legal advice and representation for the health care system. Curriculum Vitae (pdf) > Recent Publications R. Swidler, “When a Patient’s Prior Decision to Forgo Treatment Conflicts with a Family’s Current Insistence that Treatment be Provided,” 10 NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal, p.75 (Summer/Fall 2005). Burke, A. Herb and R.Swidler, “Three Stubborn Misconceptions About the Authority of Health Care Agents,” 10 NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal, p.63 (Summer/Fall 2005). Swidler and N. Daratsos, “Ch. 21: Informed Consent and Decisions for Patients Who Lack Capacity,” in R. Abrams and D. Moy, eds., Legal Manual for New York Physicians (NYS Bar Assn / Medical Society State NY 2005 edition). Wild, R. Swidler, E. Koopersmith, B. Knothe and N. Daratsos, Ch. 22: Life Sustaining Treatment Decisions,” in R. Abrams and D. Moy, eds., Legal Manual for New York Physicians (NYS Bar Assn / Medical Society State of NY 2005 edition). Abrams, P. Rosenberg and R. Swidler, “Penalizing Health Care Providers: Enforcement or Exploitation?,” 7 NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal, p.5 (Winter 2002). Swidler, “Messages from the Chair” (Collected Columns), 5 NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal (1999-2000). Swidler, "Harsh State Rule on End-of-Life Care Remains in Need of Reform," NY Law Journal, Jan. 26, 2000, p. S-4. Swidler, J. Horwitz and D. Walker, “The Role of Hospital Counsel in End-of-Life Treatment Decisions: A Review of the United Hospital Fund / Milbank Report," 4 NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal, p.18 (Summer/Fall 1999). Swidler, "Human Cloning: Legal Issues," NYS Bar Assn Health Law Journal (Fall 1998) Swidler, "Special Needs Plans: Adapting Medicaid Managed Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness or HIV/AIDs, 61 Albany Law Review 1113 (1998) · R. Swidler, "Health Care: Dramatic Changes in State's Role in Sight," Syracuse Business, January 1996, p.12. Swidler, "Charting the Progress of Pataki's Health Reforms," NYS Medical News, Third Quarter 1995, p.1 Swidler, "'Blue Cross' and New York's Hospital Reimbursement System," NY Law Journal, June 27, 1995, p.1. Swidler and J. Tauriello, "New York's Community Mental Health Reinvestment Act," Psychiatric Affairs, May 1995, pp. 496-500. Swidler, "Medical Innovations and Ethics: A State Government Perspective," 57 Albany Law Review 655 (Spring 1994). · R. Swidler, "Judging Medicine," NYS Journal of Medicine, July 1989, pp. 427-429. Miller and R. Swidler, "In Support of the Surrogate Parenting Act," NY Law Journal, April 28, 1989, p. 1. Miller and R. Swidler, "Legislative Initiatives on Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Do-Not-Resuscitate Law and the Health Care Proxy Proposal," NYS Bar Journal, February 1989, pp. 30-35. Swidler, "The Presumption of Consent in New York State's Do-Not-Resuscitate Law," NYS Journal of Medicine, Feb. 1989, pp. 69-72 (Lawrence D. Redway Award for Medical Writing, Medical Society of the State of New York, 1990). Swidler, "The Health Care Agent: Protecting the Choices and Interests of Patients Who Lack Capacity," NY Law School Journal of Human Rights, Fall 1988, pp. 1-61. |
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