Prof. Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe, is health law and bioethics faculty at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School. She is also the interim co-director of the U-M Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, which won the 2022 American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) Cornerstone Award. She is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics and a member of the National Academies’ committee on Newborn Screening: Current Landscape and Future Directions. In the past, she was also Chair and lead author of the American Heart Association’s “Principles for Health Information Collecting, Sharing, and Use,” a member of the ASBH Board of Directors, and an Associate Director for President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. The overarching goal of Prof. Spector’s work is improving the governance of secondary research with health data and specimens to increase the accessibility of data and generalizability of advances across diverse communities. To that end, she was the PI of a NHGRI K01 studying how and why geneticists select datasets for their research and is the PI of an NCTAS R01 on hospitals sharing patient data with commercial entities. Her recent articles have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, JAMA, Health Affairs, and Nature Medicine, and her research or expertise has appeared in the NY Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, and CNN. A comprehensive list of her work is available here.
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