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Robert N. Swidler is the Vice President of Legal Services for St. Peter’s Health Partners, the Capital Region’s largest health care system, with 5 hospitals, 7 nursing homes, a medical practice with over 350 physicians, and many other facilities and services.

Mr. Swidler is also Editor of the NYS Bar Association Health Law Journal, a Governor’s appointee to NYS Task Force on Life and the Law, on the adjunct faculty of both the Alden March Bioethics Center at Albany Medical College and the Union Graduate College / Mt. Sinai Bioethics Program.

Over the years, Mr. Swidler played a significant role in drafting and advocating for several health care laws, including New York’s Health Care Proxy Law (1990) and Family Health Care Decisions Act (2010).