John J. LoCurto

Practicing Faculty

Biography

LoCurto has been a practicing faculty member at the St. Mary’s University School of Law since 2018. He focuses on health law and policy and has taught in the M.Jur. and J.D. programs. LoCurto works full time as an Assistant Professor of Medical Jurisprudence & Health Policy at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, where he teaches across the four-year medical school curriculum and in the school’s public health and other graduate programs.

Prior to his work in academics, LoCurto practiced law for 20 years, devoting most of his career to public service at the United States Department of Justice. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio, where his practice focused on health care fraud, whistleblower and controlled substances cases. He rose through the ranks at the United States Attorney’s Office to become Deputy Chief of the Civil Division. In this role, he oversaw and coordinated the District’s Affirmative Civil Enforcement, Civil Health Care Fraud, Civil Drug Diversion, and Parallel Proceedings programs.

LoCurto earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A. from the College of William & Mary. He is working on his M.A. in bioethics at The Ohio State University. His interests include how the health care and justice systems interact; health care fraud, waste and abuse; and the legal determinants of health.