Roger D. Klein, MD JD

Click for my article in Clinical Chemistry’s 2020 Special Issue on Molecular Diagnostics entitled “Current Policy Challenges in Genomic Medicine.” An excerpt is below: “Background: Molecular genetic testing has raised a variety of policy issues, ranging from privacy to reimbursement. Recently, payment policies have become of paramount importance as Medicare implemented the first significant change…

My thoughts on FDA’s proposal to ban flavored vaping solutions in the Washington Times. An excerpt: “In 2018, the National Academy of Sciences found “conclusive evidence that completely substituting e-cigarettes for combustible tobacco cigarettes reduces users’ exposure to numerous toxicants and carcinogens present in combustible tobacco cigarettes.” According to Public Health England, e-cigarettes probably inflict…

Click to hear this Heartland Institute Podcast in which Association of American Physicians and Surgeons’ Executive Director Jane Orient, Freedom HealthWorks’ Co-Founder and President Adam Habig, and I weigh in on the Wall Street Journal’s October 6th article reporting on a recent Gallup poll, “Doctors, Once GOP Stalwarts, Now More Likely to Be Democrats.” https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/more-doctors-are-leaning-left-guests-jane-orient-roger-klein-adam-habig

I enjoyed discussing e-cigarette regulation with Matt Boyle on Breitbart Radio. Government’s immediate response should be to educate and remove counterfeit products from the market. People should not vape cannabis! It is important to preserve vaping as an accessible, affordable and apparently safer alternative to cigarette smoking, which causes over 480,000 deaths per year and…

I enjoyed talking about vaping with New Jersey’s Bill Spadea on his morning drive show. https://nj1015.com/show/bill-spadea/

I was pleased to engage in a debate about “Medicare for All” Debate at Northern Illinois Law School. In the Federalist Society’s first event of the school year, I look forward to debating Adam Broad from the Illinois Single Payer Coalition about Medicare for All in Northern Illinois Law School’s Riley Auditorium (Rm 170), Swen…

I was honored to give the Gordon R. Hennigar Lecture on “Evidence-Based Medicine and Precision Medicine” and “Next Generation Sequencing and Targeted Therapies” at the South Carolina Society of Pathologists 2019 Annual Meeting. The Meeting was held at the beautiful Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. http://www.scsp.org/

I was pleased to be interviewed for the Dark Report about FDA’s regulatory actions against laboratories that perform pharmacogenetic testing. https://www.darkintelligencegroup.com/the-dark-report/genetic-testing/concerns-raised-over-pharmacogenetic-tests/

I appreciated the opportunity to discuss Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s unilateral ban on flavored vaping solutions with award winning journalist, TV broadcaster, and #1 syndicated radio host Steve Gruber Steve on his radio show this morning! http://www.stevegruber.com/

Should companies offer free genetic testing in exchange for your data? What, if anything, does Illinois’ new EpiPen law really do? Click for the podcast below in which I discuss these issues with Heartland Institute’s AnneMarie Schieber, Managing Editor of Health Care News. https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/illinois-new-epi-pen-law-much-ado-about-nothing-hospitals-offering-free-genetic-tests–should-you-be-concerned-guest-dr-roger-klein