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Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe, HEC-C (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe, is health law and bioethics faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She is the first to make tenure at the U-M medical school with JD as their terminal degree. She is also the Director of Michigan Bioethics, which won the 2022 American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) Cornerstone Award. At U-M she is also the Chair of the Research Ethics Committee. She teaches the Responsible Conduct of Research as well as Research Ethics and the Law.

Prof. Spector is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics. In the past, she was also and a member of the National Academies’ committee on newborn screening, Chair and lead author of the American Heart Association’s “Principles for Health Information Collecting, Sharing, and Use,” a member of the ASBH Board of Directors, and an Associate Director for President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

The overarching goal of Prof. Spector’s work is improving the governance of secondary research with health data and specimens to increase the accessibility of data and generalizability of advances. To that end, she was the PI of a NHGRI K01 focusing on academic/private relationships in genetic research, and is the PI of an NCTAS R01 on hospitals sharing patient data with commercial entities and a Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award on the research integrity implications of generative AI. She has been PI or Co-I on ~$200M in funding.

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.

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