James A. Passamano '90

James received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1990 from South Texas College of Law, where he served as a note and comment editor for the South Texas Law Review. He also received a Master of Law degree from the University of Cambridge in England with honors in 1999. James served as a community member since 2010 on the Houston Methodist Hospital Institutional Review Board, which reviews, monitors, and approves human subject research. He also served on the National Council of Trustees for National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado, which has been ranked as one of the top two hospitals in pulmonology every year since U.S. News & World Report included this category in its annual Best Hospitals Survey, and among the top organizations funded for research by the NIH. He is the author of the legal treatise Representing ADA Plaintiffs (James Publishing) as well as the Co-author of A Clinician’s Guide to the Legal Rights of People with Cystic Fibrosis. (CF Foundation) and articles in Pediatric Pulmonology (Wiley). James served as an officer in the Texas State Guard for seven years.