Kristin Madison

Northeastern University School of Law

Professor Kristin Madison, JD, PhD, is a Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University and currently serves as Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the School of Law. Professor Madison has published empirical articles on the structure of health care organizations in Health Services Research; published articles related to the regulation of health incentives in Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & LawJAMA and the Health Affairs Blog; and published numerous articles related to health care quality, including Regulating Health Care Quality in an Information Age and Donabedian’s Legacy. Her articles  Building a Better Laboratory: The Federal Role in Promoting Health System Experimentation and Health Regulators as Data Stewards extend her previous work by focusing on the ways health regulators generate, use and facilitate others’ use of data. More recently, she served as a reporter on a drafting committee for the Uniform Law Commission’s Telehealth Act. In 2024, Professor Madison published an article in the Penn State Law Reviewexamining what happens when states disagree about grounds for professional discipline: Discordant Discipline: Implications of State-Legislated Medicine for the Regulation of Physicians.