Rebecca Feinberg, JD, MBe, MS is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and a Lecturer in Law at DePaul University College of Law. She teaches healthcare policy, healthcare law and bioethics. Her field is healthcare policy in women's health with a focus on reproduction. In addition, she works on resource allocation in the developing world with a focus on preventive care.
Professor Feinberg's interdisciplinary work has been published in law reviews, medical journals and bioethics journals. In addition, she has co-authored multiple guidance documents published by the World Health Organization. She presents annually at a variety of regional and national conferences including the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME), and The Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference.
During her time at DePaul, Professor Feinberg has served as the Wicklander Fellow 2020-2021, funded by The Driehaus College of Business's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. She served as a Fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics of Harvard Medical School 2017-2018 and a Writing Fellow at the Center for Bioethics of Harvard Medical School 2020-2021. In 2018 she completed the Clinical Ethics Immersion Program at the Cleveland Clinic. In 2019 she served as a Visiting Scholar in the Yale University - Hastings Center program.
Professor Feinberg graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was the James Wilson Merit Scholar, a member of the Inn of Court Honor Society, and won the Henry Meacham Public Service Award. In addition, Professor Feinberg earned a Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and a Master of Biotechnology, specializing in Regulatory Affairs, from Johns Hopkins University. She earned her BA summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, where she was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Delta Honor Society. She is proud to be a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician at the Paramedic level.