Kayte Spector-Bagdady

Kayte Spector-Bagdady JD, MBe, is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and health law and bioethics faculty at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School. She is also the interim co-director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, which won the 2022 American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) Cornerstone Award. She teaches the Responsible Conduct of Research as well as Research Ethics and the Law and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics. She is the PI of $3M in NIH funding towards improving the governance of secondary research with health data and specimens, and her recent articles have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and JAMA among others. She is the former Chair of the American Heart Association’s Committee on data collection, sharing, and use, and ASBH board member. Prior to joining U-M, Professor Spector was an Associate Director for President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and practicing FDA law attorney. She received her law and bioethics degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.