Mark Barnes  Mark Barnes is an American attorney serving as partner in the Ropes & Gray health care and life sciences practice based in Boston. He was Director of Policy for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, and Associate Commissioner for Medical and Legal Policy for the New York City Department of Health under the mayoralty of David Dinkins. He worked on the National Health Care Reform Task Force in the Clinton Administration. He also has served as executive vice president of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and founded and directed the Harvard University HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Africa. His current legal and advocacy work includes focus on the fields of research compliance, the ethics and regulation of clinical trials, medical privacy, and "big data" research. He is past President of the New York State Bar Association's Health Law Section. Barnes is a native of Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He is the son of Elaine Robinson and Mike Barnes, and his family has lived around Tallapoosa for generations. According to his family oral history, he is a direct descendant of Daniel Boone. Barnes plans to retire to Dadeville, where he purchased family property. He has been with his partner since 1984. Barnes attended Bennington College. In 1984 Barnes graduated from Yale Law School with a juris doctor, and in 1991 he received his L.L.M. from Columbia University School of Law. In 1988, as an associate professor of the Columbia Law School, Barnes founded the AIDS Law Clinic. He is a faculty member at the Yale Law School and lecturer at the Yale Medical School. He has taught at several other law schools, including Harvard Law School, NYU Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Cardozo Law School, and New York Law School. He has taught courses in the ethics and law of human subjects research, healthcare law, public health, managed care law, occupational health and safety law, the regulation of narcotics, and law and medicine. Barnes and Professor Deborah Greenberg at Columbia Law School founded the first legal clinic addressing the AIDS crisis, to allow law students to represent persons living with AIDS in anti-discrimination cases. The program was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education and received referrals from the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the State Division of Human Rights. The clinical education director at Columbia said of Barnes: "[He] is a leader in the field, and we're lucky to have him. He's highly knowledgeable, he's litigated on a precedented discrimination case, and he's sensitive to the AIDS crisis."