UW, Department of Medical History&Ethics

Dr. Wylie Burke is Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. She is also Principal Investigator of the University of Washington Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, an NIH-funded Centerof Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research. Her research addresses the social, ethical and policy implications of genetic information.

Dr. Burke received a Ph.D. in Genetics and an M.D. from the University of Washington and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. She was a Medical Genetics Fellow at the University of Washington from 1981 to 1982. Dr. Burke was a member of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington from 1983 to 2000, where she served as Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program from 1988 to 1994 and as founding Director of the University of Washington's Women's Health Care Center from 1994 to 1999. She was appointed Chair of what was then known as the Department of Medical History and Ethics in October 2000. The department became Bioethics and Humanities in 2008. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and a Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1998 and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She has served on the NIH National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and the Secretary's Advisory Commitee on Genetic Testing, and as the President of the American Society of Human Genetics.

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WYLIE BURKE, MD, PhD Professor and Chair

WYLIE BURKE, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair