Prof. Kayte Spector-Bagdady is health law and bioethics faculty at the University of Michigan (U-M) and is the first to make tenure in the medical school with JD as a terminal degree. She is also the Director of the Bioethics Program 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 was the Chair of the American Heart Association’s Principles for Health Information Collecting, Sharing, and Use and served on the Board of Directors for ASBH. She was a 2019 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Health Law Scholar and is a current Greenwall Faculty Scholar. Her work has been funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the Greenwall Foundation. 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. Before joining U-M, she was an Associate Director for President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and is a former practicing drug and device attorney. She received her B.A. from Middlebury College, her JD and MBe from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow at U-M.
