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HALL CENTER FOR LAW AND HEALTH
Professor Susan M. Wolf Presents
McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham
Award Lecture at IU McKinney
Professor Susan M. Wolf, McKnight Presidential
Professor of Law, Medicine and Public
Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law;
and Professor of Medicine at the University of
Minnesota, was the 2015 recipient of the Mc-
Donald-Merrill-Ketcham Award. She presented
the annual lecture associated with the award
on February 20 at IU McKinney, on the topic
“The Challenge of Creating Rules for Translational
Science: Return of Results and Incidental
Findings in Genomics.”
At the University of Minnesota, Professor
Wolf is the founding chair of the Consortium on
Law and Values in Health, Environment and the
Life Sciences and founding director of the Joint
Degree Program in Law, Science and Technology.
She is also a professor of medicine and a
faculty member in the Center for Bioethics.
“Professor Wolf is not only one of the foremost legal scholars of our
time but also a true pioneer in cutting edge cross-disciplinary research,”
said Professor Nicolas P. Terry, executive director of the Hall Center for
Law and Health at IU McKinney.
Professor Wolf is an elected member of the National Academy of
Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, an elected fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of
the American Law Institute, and an elected fellow of The Hastings
Center as well as a past-member of the Fellows’ Council. She has received
numerous grants to support her research, including from the
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and The
Greenwall Foundation. From 2007-2010, Wolf served as a member
of the Law & Neuroscience Project funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
She has recently served as a senior consultant to The Hastings
Center on its project on guidelines for end-of-life care, funded
by the Donaghue Foundation and Sussman Trust. She received a
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health
Policy Research to fund research in 2012-14.
Professor Wolf teaches in the areas of health law, law and science,
and bioethics. She was co-holder of the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law,
an Opperman Research Scholar, a recipient of the John K. & Elsie
Lampert Fesler Research Grant, and a recipient of a University of
Minnesota Medical School Merit Award.
The award lecture was followed by a panel discussion which included
John T. Callaghan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Dean of VA Research,
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology,
IU School of Medicine; Kimberly Quaid, Ph.D., Professor, IU
School of Medicine and Faculty Investigator, IU Center for Bioethics;
and Titus Schleyer, D.M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Clem Mc-
Donald Professor of Biomedical Informatics, IU School of Medicine.
The annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Lectureship
and Award for Excellence in Law and Medicine is supported by a
bequest to the IU McKinney School of Law and the Indiana University
School of Medicine. This lecture and award brings leading
scholars and policy makers in the fields of law and medicine to the
Indianapolis campus for the benefit of students, faculty, the bar and
the medical community. ❖
(top) Participants included Vice Dean Antony Page, Professor Titus Schleyer,
Professor Susan Wolf, Professor Nicolas Terry, Professor Kimberly Quaid,
Dr. Brad Allen, Amy Elson, and J. Thomas Callaghan, M.D., PhD.​
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