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Professor I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics. He is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34). His current research projects relate to health information technologies, mobile health, reproductive technology, research ethics, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law and medical tourism. He is the author of more than 70 articles and chapters and his awardwinning work has appeared in leading legal medical, bioethics, and public health journals. Prior to becoming a professor he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and (in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s Office) in the U.S. Supreme Court. In his spare time, he still litigates, most recently having authored an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court for leading gene scientist Eric Lander in Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, concerning whether human genes are patent eligible subject matter, a brief that was extensively discussed by the Justices at oral argument. Professor Henry T. Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences, particularly from genetics, neuroscience, and human stem cell research. He directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Program on Neuroscience in Society; chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research; and serves on the Neuroscience Forum of the Institute of Medicine, the Advisory Council for the National Institute for General Medical Sciences of NIH, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the National Academy of Sciences, and the NIH Multi-Council Working Group on the BRAIN Initiative. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. He graduated from Stanford in 1974 and from Yale Law School in 1977. He served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. After working during the Carter Administration in the Departments of Defense and Energy, he entered private practice in Los Angeles in 1981 as a litigator with the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor, Inc. He began teaching at Stanford in 1985. PRECISION MEDICINE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES 13
Ms Alison Hall, Head of Humanities, PHG Foundation As Head of Humanities at the PHG Foundation, Alison is actively involved in policy analysis, evaluation and implementation. Professionally qualified as a lawyer and a nurse, with a master’s qualification in health care ethics, her work focuses on ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) in biomedical technologies, and includes regulatory and legal policy analysis and briefings on the governance of human tissue, data protection and in vitro-diagnostic devices reform. Recent work includes leading a two year policy development project working with stakeholders on the ethical, legal and societal implications of implementing genomic sequencing into clinical practice (Hall A, Finnegan T, Alberg C, PHG Foundation (2014) Realising Genomics in Clinical Practice. ISBN 978-1-907198-15-1) and contributing legal and regulatory analysis to a report on data sharing to support clinical genetics and genomics practice (Data sharing to support UK clinical genetics and genomics services, PHG Foundation (2015) ISBN 978-1-907198-20- 5). At EU policy level, with the Wellcome Trust, she has led advocacy on the genetic testing provisions in the proposed EU in vitro diagnostic devices regulation. Internationally, she has chaired a group developing a Data Sharing Lexicon as part of the regulatory and ethics activities of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. She has also co-authored PHG Foundation reports on ethical, legal and societal impacts of biotechnological advances including genomic stratification in cancer prevention and non-invasive prenatal diagnosis, and has over 20 peer-reviewed publications. Nationally, she has contributed to professional guidance including ‘Consent and Confidentiality in Clinical Genetic Practice’ published by the UK Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine. She is currently on the UK Data Access Committee for METADAC, on the ethics and policy committee of the British Society for Genetic Medicine, and is a lay member of an NHS research ethics committee. Dr Chih-Hsing Ho, Assistant Professor/Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Chih-hsing Ho is Assistant Professor/Assistant Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research focuses on the nexus of law and medicine in general, with particular attention to the governance of genomics and newly emerging biotechnologies, such as big data and biobanks. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator for a health cloud project in Taiwan, and is responsible for designing an adequate regulatory framework for the secondary use of personal data and health-related data linkage. She holds a Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics (LSE) where she was an Olive Stone Scholar. She obtained her first law degree from Taiwan, and later received her LLM from Columbia Law School and a JSM from Stanford University. Before moving back to Taipei in 2014, she had been working at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL) at the University of Hong Kong. PRECISION MEDICINE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES 14
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