Tom Mayo: short c.v.
 

Education

Awards

  • SMU's "Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award" (2012-14)
  • SMU's "President's Associates Outstanding Faculty Award" to a tenured faculty member who has sustained high achievement as a teacher and whose scholarship makes a meaningful contribution to student learning (2006-2007)
  • SMU Outstanding Faculty Volunteer Award for community service  (1988-1989)
  • Dedman School of Law outstanding teacher award (1986-1987 and 1996-1997)
  • Dallas County Medical Society’s Heath Award for outstanding leadership and service to medicine and to the community of Dallas (2002)

Employment

I am Associate Professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law; Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School; and of counsel, Haynes and Boone, all in Dallas.  My courses include first-year Torts I & II,  Health Care Law, Bioethics and Law, a literature course for medical students and law students together (titled, unsurprisingly, “Law, Literature & Medicine”), Election Law, and Nonprofit Organizations. Previous courses include Civil Procedure I & II, Constitutional Law I & II, Administrative Law, Federal Courts, Land Use Law, Business Torts, Legislation, and Family Law.

I continue to serve on the Texas Advance Directives Coalition, which was responsible for drafting the 1999 Advance Directives Act and its 2003 amendments.  I co-chair two hospital ethics committees (Dallas County's Parkland Health & Hospital System and Children's Medical Center of Dallas). 

I was the Director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at Southern Methodist University from 2005 to 2010 and was one of the co-principal investigators (with Prof. William F. May) who did the original planning and fund-raising for the Center in 1994-95. 

Other community and professional activities include: member, American Law Institute (elected 2012); one of the co-founders of the Legal Hospice of Texas, Texas’ first pro bono legal clinic for persons with HIV disease and persons with terminal illnesses; past president of the board of trustees of St. John’s Episcopal School, and past president of the William “Mac” Taylor Chapter of the American Inn of Court.  I served on the Examination Commission of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization’s health law certification exam for the first six years of its existence and have been a member of the Council of the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Texas since 1997.  I've been a member of the Advisory Board for BNA’s Health Law Reporter since the beginning of that publication (in 1997) and serve on the Advisory Board of  the Journal of Health and Health Sciences Law. I am also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center; the former editor of the Medical Humanities Series of the SMU Press; and the former poetry columnist for the Dallas Morning News. In 2005 I was inducted into the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Health Lawyers Association and was a member of their board of directors from 1997 to 2003.

 

 

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Phone: 214.768.3767    Campus address: 303 Storey Hall   tmayo@smu.edu