Ethical Aspects of AI in Biomedical Research: The NIH Bridge to AI Initiative

Friday, March 22 | 12 p.m. ET | Hybrid: 321 MacNider Hall & Virtual

Speaker: Vardit Ravitsky, PhD
President and CEO, The Hastings Center
Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor, University of Montréal

Dr. Ravitsky will be speaking at the UNC Center for Bioethics’ Research Ethics Grand Rounds Merrimon Lecture. She is the President and CEO of The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute that is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy institutes in the world. Dr. Ravitsky joins the Center from the University of Montreal where she was Professor at the Bioethics Program, School of Public Health. She is also a Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, her MA from the University of New Mexico, and her BA from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Dr. Ravitsky runs an active research program and holds several positions on advisory boards. Her research in bioethics focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics and assisted reproductive technologies, with an emphasis on emerging biotechnologies and their implications for women’s autonomy and for disability rights. She also studies the ethics of AI in biomedicine.

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