Susan M. Wolf | |
---|---|
Born | Washington, DC |
Occupation(s) | Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy |
Academic background | |
Education | Princeton University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Minnesota |
Susan M. Wolf is an American lawyer and bioethicist. She is a Regents Professor;McKnight Presidential Professor of Law,Medicine &Public Policy;Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law;and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is also founding chair of the university's Consortium on Law and Values in Health,Environment &the Life Sciences.
Wolf received an A.B. degree with highest honors from Princeton University in 1975 and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1980. [1] Following this,Wolf clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 1981-84 she practiced law as an associate in the firm of Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison before joining The Hastings Center (then in Hastings-on-Hudson,NY) as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. [2]
Wolf served as associate for law at The Hastings Center 1985-92,where she led and participated in projects on end-of-life care,health care reform,and other issues in bioethics. Wolf directed the project that produced Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying (1987);in 2013 Oxford University Press published the second edition,co-authored by Nancy Berlinger,Bruce Jennings,and Wolf. [3] While at The Hastings Center,Wolf also taught law and medicine at New York University School of Law as an adjunct associate professor from 1987 to 1992. [2] In 1992-93,she was a Fellow at Harvard University in the Program in Ethics and the Professions. [1] Wolf joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as associate professor of law and medicine in 1993,where she was awarded tenure in 1996 and promoted to full professor in 1999. In 2000 she was named the Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law and in 2006 became the McKnight Presidential Professor of Law,Medicine &Public Policy. [2] Wolf was named a Regents Professor in 2021. [4] Wolf has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, [5] a member of the National Academy of Medicine, [6] a member of the American Law Institute,and a fellow of The Hastings Center.
Wolf has received numerous grants to support her research,including from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),National Science Foundation (NSF),Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,and The Greewall Foundation. Much of her research has focused on the ethical,legal,and societal implications of emerging biomedical technologies including genomics,neuroimaging,nanomedicine,and biomedical engineering. Beginning in 2005,she served as principal investigator on a series of NIH-funded projects on return of research results and incidental findings to research participants and their relatives. Starting in 2016,Wolf served as principal investigator with Profs. Ellen Wright Clayton and Frances Lawrenz on a collaborative NIH-funded project on "LawSeqSM:Building a Sound Legal Foundation for Translating Genomics into Clinical Application." [7] This was "a project convening legal,ethics,and scientific experts from across the country to analyze the current state of genomic law and create much-needed guidance on what it should be." [8]
Wolf has served on committees at the National Academies of Science,Engineering,and Medicine including the Committee on Science,Engineering,Medicine and Public Policy (COSEMPUP). [9] In 2021,she was selected to join the Strategic Council for Research Excellence,Integrity,and Trust of the National Academy of Sciences. The aim of the council is to develop ways to "promote high-quality research practices and to anticipate and address challenges to research ethics and integrity." [10] She has also served on committees for NIH,such as the External Advisory Panel for the Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine Program at the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute (NHLBI). [11] Beginning in March 2020,Wolf and Prof. Debra DeBruin have co-led a statewide Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative (MCEC),a joint venture between the Minnesota Department of Health,the State Health Care Coordination Center,Minnesota Hospital Association,and the University of Minnesota. [12] The aim of MCEC is to rapidly share ethics expertise and policy to cope with moral challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. [13]
Arthur L. Caplan is an American ethicist and professor of bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
Bartha Maria Knoppers,OC OQ is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics,genomics and biotechnology.
Joseph J. Fins,M.D.,D. Hum. Litt.,M.A.C.P.,F.R.C.P. is an American physician and medical ethicist. He is chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College,where he serves as The E. William Davis Jr.,M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics,and Professor of Medicine,Professor of Public Health,and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. Fins is also Director of Medical Ethics and an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Fins is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Rockefeller University and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. He is the Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine,Bioethics and the Law and a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton to The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and currently serves on The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law by gubernatorial appointment.
The Hastings Center is an independent,nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison,New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy institutes in the world.
Dorothy E. Roberts is an American sociologist,law professor,and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor,George A. Weiss University Professor,and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and lectures on gender,race,and class in legal issues. Her focuses include reproductive health,child welfare,and bioethics. In 2023,she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She has published over 80 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals,including Harvard Law Review,Yale Law Journal,and Stanford Law Review.
Norman Daniels is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science,political theorist,ethicist,and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before his career at Harvard,Daniels had built his career as a medical ethicist at Tufts University in Medford,Massachusetts,and at Tufts University School of Medicine,also in Boston. He also developed the concept of accountability for reasonableness with James Sabin,an ethics framework used to challenge the healthcare resource allocation in the 1990s.
I. Glenn Cohen is a Canadian legal scholar and professor at Harvard Law School. He is also the director of Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,Biotechnology,and Bioethics.
Mildred Z. Solomon is an American bioethics researcher.
German Ethics Council is an independent council of experts in Germany addressing the questions of ethics,society,science,medicine and law and the probable consequences for the individual and society that result in connection with research and development,in particular in the field of the life sciences and their application to humanity. Its duties include informing the public and encouraging discussion in society,preparing opinions and recommendations for political and legislative action for the Federal Government and the German Bundestag as well as cooperating with national ethics councils and comparable institutions of other states and of international organisations.
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss is a Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey '50 Chair of Litigation at UC Hastings College of Law. She has also worked for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Justice's Department of Public Law.
Laurie Zoloth is an American ethicist,currently Margaret E. Burton Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She was the first Jewish dean of the Divinity School and served in the position from 2017 to 2018,whereupon she was invited to serve as the first Senior Advisor on Programs on Social Ethics for the University,an advisory administrative position.
Colleen M. Flood is the Dean of Queen's University Faculty of Law.
Eric M. Meslin PhD is a Canadian-American philosopher-bioethicist and current President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA).
Patricia A. King is a professor of law emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center and an adjunct professor in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her expertise lies at the intersection of law,medicine,ethics,and public policy. In 1979,she became the first African-American woman law professor to receive tenure at Georgetown.
Charmaine DM Royal is an American geneticist and Associate Professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences &Policy and the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. She studies the intersections of race,ethnicity,ancestry genetics,and health,especially as they pertain to historically marginalized and underrepresented groups in genetic and genomic research;and genomics and global health. Her major interest is in addressing root causes and implementing sustainable solutions regarding problems of race and racism in research,healthcare,and society. Royal is a Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Independent Expert Committee (IEC) member appointed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is a 2020 Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa.
Reshma Jagsi is an American Radiation oncologist. She is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Overall,she is the author of over 450 published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and continues scholarly research in three primary areas of interest:breast cancer,bioethics,and gender equity,with the support of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,and the Susan G. Komen Foundation,for which she serves as a Senior Scholar.
Vardit Ravitsky is a bioethicist,researcher,and author. She is president and CEO of The Hastings Center,a full professor at the University of Montreal,and a senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is immediate-past president and current vice-president of the International Association of Bioethics,and the director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation,where she chaired the COVID-19 Impact Committee. She is also Fellow of The Hastings Center and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Eftychia ("Effy") Vayena is a Greek and Swiss bioethicist. Since 2017 she has held the position of chair of bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich,ETH Zurich. She is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
Jessica Wilen Berg is an American attorney and specialist in Public Health (MPH),currently serving as co-Dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Law,the first female co-Dean or Dean in the law school's 129-year history. She is also Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law,Professor in the Departments of Bioethics,and of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the CWRU School of Medicine. She is a reference book author in the area of informed consent. Her scholarly opinion is often reported by institutions and media on ethical aspects iof innovative biomedical procedures.
Wylie Burke is a Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington and a founding co-director of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network,which partners with underserved populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.