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PROFESSOR SUMMER JOHNSON
Summer Johnson, Ph.D.
is the director of the Ethics in Novel Technologies, Research, and
Innovation (ENTRI) program of the Alden March Bioethics Institute and a
tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medicine. She is also the
Director of Graduate Studies at AMBI at Albany Medical
College.
Summer's primary interest is in ethical issues in innovative
technologies in biomedical science. Her current focus is on ethical
issues in nanomedicine, where she has completed among other recent
publications a definitive assessment of the landscape of nanoethics for
the
Harvard Health Policy Review. Her scholarship in the fields
of
public health and research ethics includes a critical analysis of the
impact of various federal bioethics commissions, an in-depth examination
of privacy issues associated with genetic testing, a comparison of the
ethics of public health research versus practice, and an exploration of
healthcare worker duties and obligations during public health
emergencies.
She authored
Ethics in Nanomedicine: a Needs-Assessment and Proposals for the
Future,
Multiple roles and successes in public bioethics: a response to the
public forum critique of bioethics commissions, and
Making Public Bioethics Sufficiently Public: The Legitimacy and
Authority of Bioethics Commissions,
and coauthored
Emerging Issues in Nanomedicine and Ethics,
Population aging and international development: addressing competing
claims of distributive justice,
On race and organ markets,
Disclosure of Personal Medical Information: Differences among Parents
and Affected Adults for Genetic and Nongenetic Conditions,
Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed Immunity to Common
Sense?, and
Ethics of Population-Based Research.
Her doctoral training is in Bioethics and Health Policy at Hopkins'
Bloomberg School of Public Health, where her advisers have been Dr. Ruth
Faden and Dr. Nancy Kass. While at Hopkins, Summer has been awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship (declined) and the 2005 Marcia Pines Award in
Bioethics and Health Policy. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
graduate of Indiana University, where she completed a double major in
philosophy and bioethics. She studied in the Poynter Center for the
Study of Ethics and American Institutions, held a Lilly Endowment full
tuition scholarship, and completed an additional year at Oxford in
philosophy, policy, and economics. She received the Richard D. Young
award at Indiana for outstanding scholarship as the first individualized
bioethics major.
Summer will take the lead in the development of
the Alden March Bioethics Institute's research on ethical
issues in innovative biomedical technology, with a focus on areas of
research excellence in the New York Capital, e.g., neuroimaging research
and brain-computer interfaces (neuroethics), nanotechnology, and
biodefense research. In that regard, she will help build AMBI programs
with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the GE
Healthcare/AMC Neurosciences Institute, and the Brain Computer Interface
group of the Wadsworth Center. She is also well-prepared to help develop
our public outreach and policy consultation programs, and will be
completing both a set of articles and a book on the impact of bioethics
in the public sector on society and science.
Her dissertation, on national bioethics committees and their impact, is
only part of her broad research interest, although it has already
resulted in articles in the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and a
chapter in the
Oxford Textbook on Clinical Research Ethics, and will
allow her to be an integral part of AMBI's unique Federalism, States,
and
Bioethics program, based at the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
She previously worked on bioethics and politics specifically, with
Jonathan Moreno in the new progressive bioethics initiative of the
Center for American Progress in Washington in the area of public
health and government policy including bioterrorism and pandemics.
Listen to her interview on
Science
and Society.
Read
The Nanoethics Group publishes nanotechnology anthology with
Springer and
Apple to use Albany Med bioethics degree as model for online teaching
initiative.
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