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Jessica Wilen Berg, J.D.
Professor of
Law and Bioethics
Bioethics and Law
Informed Consent and Advance Directives
End-of-Life Decision Making
Reproductive Law and Ethics
Research Law and Ethics
E-Medicine
Office Phone: 216-368-6363
e-mail: jwb14@po.cwru.edu
NIH Biosketch
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Bio |
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Jessica Wilen Berg is a Professor of Law and Bioethics.
She has a joint appointment in Case Western Reserve University's
School of Law and the Department of Bioethics at the Medical
School. She received her B.A. and J.D., with honors, from Cornell
University, where she was a notes editor of the Cornell Law
Review.
Ms. Berg joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve in 1999,
after serving as the Director of Academic Affairs of the Institute
for Ethics, and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial
Affairs for the American Medical Association. Before that, she
was a Visiting Professor at Michigan State Medical School, a
Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical
School, and a Fellow at both the Center for Biomedical Ethics
and the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the
University of Virginia.
Ms. Berg teaches Law and Bioethics. Her publications and research
span a variety of areas, including informed consent, research
with human subjects, reproductive law and ethics, confidentiality
of medical information, mental health law, professional self-regulation,
and E-medicine.
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Recent Publications |
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“Of Elephants and Embryos: A Proposed Framework for Legal Personhood,” Hastings Law Journal (forthcoming).
“Legal Issues in End-of-Life Decisionmaking,” book chapter in Aspen Health Care and Compliance Update 2007.
“Strange Bedfellows: Reflections on Bioethics’ Role in Disaster Response Planning,” 6 American Journal of Bioethics 3 (2006) (with Nick King).
“Smokescreen,” 36 Hastings Center Report (2006).
Marshall P, Berg J, “Protecting Communities in Biomedical Research,” 6(3) American Journal of Bioethics 28 (2006).
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Recent Activities |
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“Privacy and Detection of Genetic Enhancement” The Hastings Center, Working Group Meeting on the Ethics, Genetic and Future of Sport: Implications of Genetic Modification and Genetic Selection, 5/07.
“Legal Persons” Annual Health Law Professors Conference, 6/06.
“Bioethics and Disaster Response” Annual Bioethics Summer Retreat, 6/06.
“End of Life Decision Making” Keynote Address, Ohio Guardianship Conference, 5/10/06.
Co-Chair, 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of Bioethics and Humanities.
Appointed to the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Pediatric Central IRB.
Appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics, Ethics and Policy Committee.
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Contact Information |
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Office Phone: 216-368-6363
e-mail: jwb14@po.cwru.edu
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