Lauren Dame is the Associate Director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy, part of Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. She teaches courses at Duke Law School on "Bioethics" and "Genetics & the Law." Ms. Dame received her A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University, her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and her M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health. She has served as a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and as the Staff Attorney for Public Citizen’s Health Research Group in Washington, D.C. Her areas of interest include bioethics, genetics, biomedical research and the protection of human subjects, healthcare policy, and the effects of technology on privacy. She is a member of the Duke Hospital Ethics Committee, and from September 2002 to December 2003, she was the Chair of North Carolina’s State Task Force on Genetics and Public Health.  |
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A. Dame, JD, MPH