Ellen Wright Clayton, JD, MD
Specialty
General Pediatrics
M.S.
Stanford University, 1976
JD
Yale Law School, 1979
M.D.
Harvard Medical School, 1985
Residency
Residency-Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and Lecturer in Medical Ethics
Clinical Interests
Genetics, genomics, ethics, law, pediatrics, women's health
Research Information
Dr. Ellen Clayton is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a founding member of its Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society. At VUMC, she is a Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, a Professor of Health Policy, a co-founder of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, and a Professor of Law at Vanderbilt. Her research focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the conduct and translation of genomics research into clinical care. She is the co-PI of a transdisciplinary Center for Excellence in ELSI Research focusing on Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings and of a project that seeks to define the legal framework for genomics. In addition, she has been involved in the eMERGE consortium assessing the impact of returning genomic results, and currently working on ethical issues in the development and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.