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Wylie Burke, MD, PhD
Wylie Burke, MD, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Medical History and Ethics and an adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Burke is the principal investigator of the Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, an NIH-funded Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research. She is an attending physician in the University of Washington Medical Genetics Clinic and a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
She received her BA from Brooklyn College and her PhD in genetics and MD from the University of Washington, where she completed a residency in internal medicine and was a fellow in medical genetics.
Dr. Burke is internationally known for her work in ethical and policy issues in clinical and public health genetics. She previously served as the president of the American Society of Human Genetics, the associate director of the University of Washington Internal Medicine Residency Program and was the founding director of the Women’s Health Care Center. Dr. Burke’s academic work focuses on the ethical and health policy implications of genetic information in medicine and public health.
A member of the Institute of Medicine, she is currently on the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics and has published more than 100 articles, including more than 30 invited commentaries, in national journals such as JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Genetics. In addition, she is chair of the Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the director at the National Institutes of Health and chair of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health.
