Lecturer Richard Sharp, , is director of the Biomedical Ethics Research Program at Mayo Clinic. Before joining Mayo Clinic in July 2013, he was director of Bioethics Research at Cleveland Clinic and codirector of the Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law at Case Western Reserve University, 1 of 6 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Research.
Dr. Sharp has published widely on topics in biomedical ethics, including clinical ethics consultation, informed consent, financial conflicts of interest, and ethical tensions in patient advocacy. His current research is examining how patients and health care providers view new forms of personalized medicine and clinical interventions enabled by molecular diagnosis. Dr. Sharp frequently advises health care organizations on ethical issues and has served on advisory committees for the NIH, Institute of Medicine, American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and US Environmental Protection Agency.
In this lecture, Dr. Sharp will discuss emerging ethical issues in genomic medicine. He will consider potential responses to these challenges and discuss the role of empirical bioethics research in the adoption and implementation of genomic test services.