Nancy M.P King, JD

Professor, Social Sciences and Health Policy
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine

Nancy M. P. King, JD, is Professor, Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy and Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Co-Director, Center for Bioethics, Health, & Society and Graduate Program in Bioethics, Wake Forest University. Her scholarship addresses informed consent, benefit, and uncertainty in health care and research; international and cross-cultural questions in human subjects research; and ethical issues in research on gene transfer, gene editing, regenerative medicine, and other novel biotechnologies. She has published over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and is co-editor of The Social Medicine Reader (3rd ed., Duke University Press 2019), Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research (UNC Press 1999), and Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility (Routledge 2012). She teaches 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.

Presentation(s):

• A Dialogue With SACHRP

  Tuesday, November 19
  11:45 AM – 12:45 PM

• Panel V: Bioethics Turns 50—Reflections from The Hastings Center

  Tuesday, November 19
  2:00 PM – 3:15 PM