Chester A. Myers Professor of Law
Senior Associate Dean

Professor Nicolas Terry is an internationally recognized scholar on health law, specifically, Health Information Technology. His research interest lies primarily at the intersection of medicine, law and technology. Professor Terry’s recent scholarship has concentrated on technologically-mediated health care (including telemedicine), privacy of medical information and the use of technology to reduce medical error.

Educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, Terry began his academic career as a member of the law faculty of the University of Exeter in England. He joined SLU LAW in 1980, where he has taught torts, products liability, health care law, eHealth, Internet law and insurance law. Professor Terry has been a visiting professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law and Washington University School of Law and the University of Iowa College of Law.

During the 1996-97 academic year, he was on leave from the law school and served as Director of Legal Education for LEXIS-NEXIS. He is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and holds the secondary appointment of Professor of Health Management & Policy at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health.

Professor Terry is the former co-director of the Center for Health Law Studies — consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the finest health law program in the nation.