Sara Gerke is an Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar at the College of Law, as well as an Associate Professor at the European Union Center, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current research focuses on the ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and big data for health care and health law in the United States and Europe.
Professor Gerke is leading several research projects funded by the NIH and the European Union. She has over 70 publications in health law and bioethics, especially AI and digital health. Her work has appeared in leading law, medical, scientific, and bioethics journals, including The George Washington Law Review, NEJM, JAMA, Science, Nature Medicine, AJOB, and the Hastings Center Report. Her work has been covered in media venues such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Scientific American, Bloomberg Law, USA Today, The Times, and others.
Before joining Illinois, Professor Gerke was an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and was promoted early to Associate Professor of Law in 2024. Previously, she served as a Research Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, where she oversaw the day-to-day work of the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL).