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Jessica Wilen Berg is an American attorney and specialist in Bioethics and Public Health Law. She is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. She previously served as co-Dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, the first female co-Dean or Dean in the law school's 129-year history.[1][2][3] She is a reference book author in the area of informed consent.[4] Her scholarly opinion is often reported by institutions and media on ethical aspects iof innovative biomedical procedures.[5][6][7][8][9]

Education

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Berg graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1991.[1] In 1994, she graduated as Juris Doctor (JD) from Cornell Law School.[1] She undertook consecutive positions as a fellow at the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law (1994), fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia School of Medicine (1994), and Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine (1996-1996).[1] In 2009 she completed a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.[1]

Career

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Berg taught at several law schools in the US. She was a Fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia (1994), and a Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (1995 - 1996).[1]

In 1999 she became assistant professor at Case Western University School of Law, where she has successively been Associate Professor (2003), Professor of Law, Bioethics and Public Health (2005–present), Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law (2014 to date)/ She is also associate director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy (2006 - 2007), associate director of the Law-Medicine Center (2006 - 2014), and co-Dean (2013 - present), together with professor Michael Scharf.[1][10]

She was Director of Academic Affairs and member of the working group on Healthcare Organizational Ethics of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,[1][11] and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association.[1][12] As part of an academic group with Max Mehlman and others, in 2006 she was a recipient of a large NIH research grant to develop guidelines for the use of human subjects in genetic research.[13] In 2008, Berg was named Health Policy Researcher of the Year by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, and she received the Case Western Reserve University Mather Spotlight Award for Excellence in Research in 2009.[1]

Works

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Papers

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Her most-cited academic articles are:

  • Wynia, M. K.; Latham, S. R.; Kao, A. C.; Berg, J. W.; Emanuel, L. L. (1999-11-18). "Medical professionalism in society". The New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (21): 1612–1616. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911183412112. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 10577119[14]
  • Berg, J. W.; Appelbaum, P. S.; Grisso, T. (1996). "Constructing competence: formulating standards of legal competence to make medical decisions". Rutgers Law Review. 48 (2): 345–371. ISSN 0036-0465. PMID 16086484[15]
  • Doukas, D. J.; Berg, J. W. (2001). "The family covenant and genetic testing". The American journal of bioethics: AJOB. 1 (3): 3–10. doi:10.1162/152651601750417784. ISSN 1526-5161. PMID 11954587[16]

Books

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  • Berg, Jessica W.; Appelbaum, Paul S. (2001). Informed consent : legal theory and clinical practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974778-8. OCLC 253007374.

The book has been recommended as a professional reference source on the theory and practice of informed consent,[17][18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Jessica Berg". School of Law | Case Western Reserve University. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  2. ^ "Jessica W. Berg - Dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University". THE ORG. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  3. ^ "Jessica Berg". The Conversation. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  4. ^ Berg, Jessica W.; Appelbaum, Paul S. (2001). Informed consent : legal theory and clinical practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974778-8. OCLC 253007374.
  5. ^ "Law and bioethics' Jessica Berg presents, publishes on public health, surrogacy and more". The Daily. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  6. ^ "Pitt's Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry Oct. 6 | Pitt Chronicle | University of Pittsburgh". www.chronicle.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  7. ^ "U.S. scientists are fixing genetic defects in human embryos. Should you be nervous?". PBS NewsHour. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  8. ^ "Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead—Now's the Time to Consider Ethics". Observer. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  9. ^ Wagner, Dennis. "The COVID culture war: At what point should personal freedom yield to the common good?". USA Today. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  10. ^ Bianco, Julia. "Law School's former interim deans named as co-deans". The Observer. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  11. ^ Ozar, D; Berg, J; Werhane, PH; Emanuel, L (2000). "Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Toward a Model for Ethical Decision Making by Provider Organizations". pdfslide.net. American Medical Association.
  12. ^ Wynia, Matthew K.; Latham, Stephen R.; Kao, Audiey C.; Berg, Jessica W.; Emanuel, Linda L. (1999-11-18). "Medical Professionalism in Society". New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (21): 1612–1616. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911183412112. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 10577119.
  13. ^ "Case Law School receives $773,000 NIH grant to develop guidelines for genetic enhancement research". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  14. ^ Wynia, M. K.; Latham, S. R.; Kao, A. C.; Berg, J. W.; Emanuel, L. L. (1999-11-18). "Medical professionalism in society". The New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (21): 1612–1616. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911183412112. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 10577119.
  15. ^ Berg, J. W.; Appelbaum, P. S.; Grisso, T. (1996). "Constructing competence: formulating standards of legal competence to make medical decisions". Rutgers Law Review. 48 (2): 345–371. ISSN 0036-0465. PMID 16086484.
  16. ^ Doukas, D. J.; Berg, J. W. (2001). "The family covenant and genetic testing". The American Journal of Bioethics: AJOB. 1 (3): 3–10. doi:10.1162/152651601750417784. ISSN 1526-5161. PMID 11954587. S2CID 25185076.
  17. ^ Petrila, John (2002-04-01). "Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice, second edition". Psychiatric Services. 53 (4): 492. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.53.4.492. ISSN 1075-2730.
  18. ^ Hill, B. Jessie (2019). "On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit" (PDF). supremecourt.gov.


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