The Berman Institute will have two visiting faculty members for 2009, they are listed below:
Karen H. Rothenberg, J.D., M.P.A., is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, founding Director of the Law & Health Care Program, and served as Dean of the University of Maryland School of Law from 1999-2009.
Professor Rothenberg is a leading national expert on legal issues in health care. Over the last decade she has focused her research primarily on the ethical, legal and social implications of genetic testing and research, including the legislative approaches to genetic information in the health insurance and employment context, the impact of genetic research on racial and ethnic populations and women’s health care, and the use of genetic information in the courtroom. Professor Rothenberg is co-editor of the textWomen and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technologyand co-author of five articles on genetics and public policy that have been published in the journalScience, the most recent of which is “Judging Genes: When Should Judges Admit or Compel Genetic Tests?” Her other research interests include health insurance, privacy, the role of gender in health care, AIDS, research ethics, the right to forego treatment, emergency care, and new reproductive technologies. She has testified before federal and state legislatures on a wide range of issues, including the U.S. House of Representatives’ Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007. Professor Rothenberg is Chair of the Maryland Stem Cell Commission and will serve as a co-Chair of the 2009 World Stem Cell Summit. Her current research sabbatical includes studying the use of theatre as an innovative tool to identify and encourage discussion of the unique ethical, legal and social issues posed by emerging technologies in health care. During 2009, she is a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School and a Senior Sabbatical Fellow at its Center for the Study of Law and Culture, and a Visiting Professor at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.
 Kalipso Chalkidou, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Berman Institute as a visiting faculty member. Dr. Chalkidou is the director of NICE’s international program. Previous positions include associate director of research and development at NICE, clinical research fellow at the University of Newcastle Medical School and surgical trainee in NHS hospitals in Newcastle and Cambridge. She has authored peer-reviewed articles in basic science, clinical medicine, and health policy, with publications in Health Affairs, Milbank Quarterly, Health Economics, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. She holds a doctorate on the molecular biology of prostate cancer from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, an MD(Hons) from the University of Athens and is an honorary lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) and a senior advisor on international policy at the Center for Medical Technology Policy (USA). She was a 2007-08 Harkness Fellow in Health Policy and Practice.
Dr. Chalkidou will be hosting a Berman Institute Bioethics Seminar on Monday, November 9th on the topic, " Strategies for linking policy to evidence generation: the UK experience."
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