Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D.

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, is the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Health Policy and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt Health and Professor of Law in the Vanderbilt University School of Law. A graduate of Duke University, Stanford University, Yale Law School, and Harvard Medical School, Professor Clayton is an internationally respected leader particularly in the fields of law and genetics and artificial intelligence as well as reproductive rights. She has published two books and more than 300 scholarly articles and chapters in medical journals, interdisciplinary journals and law journals on the intersections of law, medicine, and public health.

At Vanderbilt, she co-founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and regularly teaches in the law school and medical school. In addition, she has collaborated with faculty and students throughout Vanderbilt and in many institutions around the country and the world on interdisciplinary research projects and helped to develop policy statements for numerous national and international organizations. An active participant in policy debates, she has advised the National Institutes of Health as well as other federal and international bodies on an array of topics ranging from children's health to the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects.

Professor Clayton has worked on numerous projects for the National Academy of Medicine, including serving as a member of its Advisory Council and Chair of the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and as currently Co-Chair of the Report Review Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Medical Informatics.