Ellen Wright Clayton Explained
Ellen Wright Clayton is an American academic specialzing in law and medicine. She is the Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics at Vanderbilt University and chairwoman of the Institute of Medicine Board at the Population Health and Public Health Practice. She was the 2013 recipient of the David Rall Medal.[1] [2]
Early life
Wright Clayton was born in Houston, Texas, where she attended school. She graduated from Duke with a degree in zoology and then obtained master's degree in biochemistry from Stanford University.[3] Some years later she got her degree in law from Yale, and medical degree from Harvard respectively.[4]
Career
From 1988, Wright Clayton served as Vanderbilt University faculty member and since that time has published two books and over 150 peer-reviewed articles relating to law, medicine and public health. She serves on the advisory board panel of both the National Institutes of Health and Human Genome Organisation.[4] In 2006, she was elected to Institute of Medicine and three years later became its council member.
In 2012, she began her three-year term as the Bachelor of Philosophy chairwoman at Vanderbilt University. Since November 6, 2013, she has served as Nashville Business Journal editor.[5] Currently she teaches in both medical and law schools and is a director of Vanderbilt's Center for Genetics and Health Policy.
Clayton is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Pediatric Society. She was elected a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2023.[6]
Personal life
On Sundays she sang in a choir.[3]
Selected publications
- Factors that prompted families to file medical malpractice claims following perinatal injuries. JAMA. Gerald B Hickson . Ellen Wright Clayton . Penny B Githens . Frank A Sloan . Frank A. Sloan . 267. 10. 1359–1363. 1992. 10.1001/jama.1992.03480100065032. 1740858.
- Ellen Wright Clayton . Gerald B Hickson . Cynthia S Miller . Parents' responses to vaccine information pamphlets . Pediatrics . American Academy of Pediatrics . 93 . 3 . 369–372 . 1994 . 10.1542/peds.93.3.369 . 8115193 . 37152397.
- Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice . A Kohrman . E Wright Clayton . JE Frader . MA Grodin . KL Moseley . IH Porter . VM Wagner . . 95 . 2 . 1995 . 314–317 . 10.1542/peds.95.2.314 . 22221051 . 0031-4005.
- Ellen Wright Clayton . Informed consent and biobanks . 2005 . The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics . 33 . 1 . 15–21 . 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2005.tb00206.x . 15934662 . 26573101.
- Ellen Wright Clayton . Lainie Friedman Ross . Implications of disclosing individual results of clinical research . JAMA . 295 . 1 . 33–38 . 10.1001/jama.295.1.37-a . 16391213 . 2006.
- Development of a large-scale de-identified DNA biobank to enable personalized medicine . Dan M Roden . Jill M Pulley . Melissa A Basford . Gordon R Bernard . Ellen W Clayton . Jeffrey R Balser . Dan R Masys . . 84 . 3 . 362–369 . 2008 . 10.1038/clpt.2008.89 . 18500243 . 3763939.
- Susan M Wolf . Frances P Lawrenz . Charles A Nelson . Jeffrey P Kahn . Mildred K Cho . Ellen Wright Clayton . Joel G Fletcher . Michael K Georgieff . Dale Hammerschmidt . Kathy Hudson . Judy Illes . Vivek Kapur . Moira A Keane . Barbara A Koenig . Bonnie S LeRoy . 6 . Elizabeth G McFarland . Jordan Paradise . Lisa S Parker . Sharon F Terry . Brian Van Ness . Benjamin S Wilfond . Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: analysis and recommendations . . 36 . 2 . 219–248 . 2008 . 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.00266.x . 18547191 . 2575242.
- Principles of Human Subjects Protections Applied in an Opt‐Out, De‐identified Biobank . Jill Pulley . Ellen Clayton . Gordon R Bernard . Dan M Roden . Daniel R Masys . . 3 . 1 . 42–48 . 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2010.00175.x . 20443953 . 2010 . 3075971.
- Ellen Wright Clayton . Amy L. McGuire . The legal risks of returning results of genomics research . . 14 . 4 . 473–477 . 2012 . 10.1038/gim.2012.10 . 22323070 . 3779603.
- Informed consent for genetic research on stored tissue samples . JAMA . 274 . 22 . 1786–1792 . 2013 . Ellen Wright Clayton . Karen K Steinberg . Muin J Khoury . Elizabeth Thomson . Lori Andrews . Mary Jo Ellis Kahn . Loretta M Kopelman . Joan O Weiss . 10.1001/jama.1995.03530220052033 . 7500511 . 10.1.1.465.863.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: David Rall Award . May 17, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100527190721/http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/MemberAwards/RallAward.aspx . May 27, 2010 .
- Fiona Soltes . Spring 2009 . The Convergence of Arts and Science . live . Arts and Science Magazine . https://web.archive.org/web/20090908114950/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/arts-and-science/2009-06/the-convergence-of-arts-and-science/ . September 8, 2009.
- News: Science, society and the law — Ellen Wright Clayton has some issues. Paul Govern. Vanderbilt University.
- News: Institute of Medicine honors Vanderbilt's Clayton . Bill Snyder . Vanderbilt University . October 23, 2013 . May 17, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131024075414/http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/10/institute-of-medicine-honors-vanderbilt-clayton/ . October 24, 2013 . live .
- Web site: Nashville Business Journal . May 17, 2014 . Ellen Wright Clayton . November 12, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112211740/http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/potmsearch/detail/submission/2197371/Ellen_Wright_Clayton . live .
- Web site: Communications . VUMC News and . Vanderbilt’s Ellen Clayton and Allison McCoy elected fellows of ACMI . 2024-03-04 . Vanderbilt University . en.