Ellen Wright Clayton, JD, MD is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Health Policy, and Co-Founder of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has studied ethical and legal issues in genetics and genomics research and the clinical implementation of these results since she was in law school, where her Note on prenatal diagnosis was published in 1978. She has served on the National Advisory Council for Human Research and on numerous ELSI committees for organizations around the world. She is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, where she has served on its Advisory Council, several committees, co-chair of its report review committee, and most recently, as a founding member of its Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society.
