Nancy King, JD

Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and WFIRM;  Co-Director, Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and Graduate Program in Bioethics, Wake Forest University

Nancy M. P. King, JD, is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy and Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society and the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Wake Forest University. Her scholarship addresses a range of bioethics issues, including: informed consent, benefit, and uncertainty in health care and research; the development and use of experimental technologies; international and cross-cultural questions in human subjects research; and ethical issues in “big data” research and biobanking, gene transfer research, regenerative medicine, and other novel biotechnologies. Professor King has published over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and is co-editor of The Social Medicine Reader (2nd ed., Duke University Press, 2005; 3rd ed. forthcoming), Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research (UNC Press 1999), and Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility (Routledge 2012). She teaches a variety of courses in bioethics, medical humanities, and research ethics to medical students and faculty and to graduate students in bioethics and the health sciences. Professor King has served on hospital ethics committees, IRBs, DSMBs and the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, and has taught bioethics in national and international settings. She is a Fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections.