Wylie Burke
University of Washington, USA

Wylie Burke is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington (UW), and Director of the University of Washington Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality. She received a PhD in Genetics and an MD from UW, completed a medical residency in Internal Medicine and was a Medical Genetics Fellow at UW. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology. Her academic work addresses the ethical and policy implications of the use of genetic information in medicine and public health. Dr. Burke is a member of the Institute of Medicine, has served on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing and the National Human Genome Advisory Council and was President of the American Society of Human Genetics in 2007.