Genomics and Environmental Regulation: Science, Ethics, and Law

List of Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS About the Editors Richard R. Sharp is director of bioethics research at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Sharp received his training in philosophy and medical ethics at Michigan State University. Before joining the Cleveland Clinic in 2007, Sharp taught bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, where he directed the Program in Environmental Health Policy and Ethics. His professional interests center on the promotion of informed patient decision making in clinical research, particularly research that involves genetic analyses. He regularly lectures on advanced topics in research ethics and has served on advisory committees for the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, the Alpha One Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the National Institutes of Health. At the Cleveland Clinic, Sharp participates in the teaching of clinical ethics to medical students, residents, and fellows. Gary E. Marchant is Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law, and Ethics at Arizona State University College of Law and executive director of the ASU Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. He has a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of British Columbia, an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government, and a law degree from Harvard. Before joining the ASU faculty in 1999, he was a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm, where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law. Marchant teaches and researches in the subject areas of environmental law, risk assessment and risk management, genetics and the law, and law, science, and technology. He has published several articles in legal and scientific journals on the role of genomics in environmental regulation and toxic torts. He was the principal investi- gator on a research grant examining the role of genetic susceptibility in environmental regulation supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Jamie A. Grodsky is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, where she specializes in environmental law, natural resources law, science and technology law, and genetics. She joined the George Washington law faculty in 2006 after serving on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to entering academia , Professor Grodsky served as a counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and the senior advisor to the general counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Previously, she was an analyst at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Her scholarship focuses on implications of emerging technologies for environmental law, including award-winning legal journal articles on the role of genomics in toxic tort and regulatory law. Her work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Yale Journal on Regulation, among others. Professor Grodsky holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. About the Contributors Andrew Askland is the director of the Center for the Study of Law, Science , and Technology at the College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches privacy, economics and the law, and advanced research topics in law, science, and technology. He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a J.D. at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Holy Cross College and a B.S. in economics from the University of Maryland. John M. Balbus, M.D., M.P.H., is senior scientist and director of the Health Program for Environmental Defense. Before joining Environmental Defense, he spent seven years at the George Washington University, where he was founding director of the Center for Risk Science and Public Health and served as acting chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Balbus received a B.A. in biochemistry from Harvard University, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University. xx C O N T R I B U T O R S William H. Benson, Ph.D., is director of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory’s Gulf Ecology Division within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development . Benson obtained a...