 Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA Associate Professor Dr. Lyerly’s scholarly and teaching interests focus primarily on bioethics and health policy, specifically issues regarding women's health, reproductive medicine, and applications of feminist theory. She completed the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy (1999-2001) during which her research and writing addressed a range of issues, including the ethics of decisions regarding postmenopausal hormone therapy, HIV in women, research in reproductive medicine including maternal-fetal surgery and the assisted reproductive technologies, and methodology in case-based approaches to issues in obstetrics and gynecology. She is the recipient of a career development award from the National Institutes of Health and from the Greenwall Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. The goal of her current research program is to inform ethical and policy analyses around reproduction with the experiences of women and their families through novel application of methods in the humanities and social science. She is nearing completion of a research project examining individuals' attitudes regarding the disposition of their own cryopreserved embryos, including a multicenter project aimed at determining the prevalence of these attitudes among more than 1200 infertility patients. She is also leading the Good Birth project, a qualitative study aimed at developing a theory, grounded in women’s experiences, of what constitutes a good birth. Dr. Lyerly is cofounder with Maggie Little of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Risk Research Group, a multidisciplinary group of scholars who examine patterns of distortions in the assessment, communication and management of risk around pregnancy and reproduction. She is currently the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Lyerly’s most recent article Embryonic Stem Cells: Willingness to Donate Frozen Embryos for Stem Cell Research was published in Science, 6 July 2007.  |