Anna Mastroianni, JD, MPH

Anna Mastroianni, JD, MPH

Anna Mastroianni is a visiting scholar at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics throughout the academic year of 2007-2008. Professor Mastroianni joined the University of Washington School of Law faculty in 1998 and is also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health, and in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine. She teaches health law and bioethics in the School of Law, the University of Washington Institute for Public Health Genetics and other units throughout the university.

In 2002, she was named a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, an award that funds her research on policy gaps and conflicts in the use of stem cells, human embryos and reproductive technologies. She has worked in a number of legal and governmental policy positions in Washington, D.C., including associate director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and study director of the Institute of Medicine. She also practiced health law with Epstein Becker and Green, P.C., and Green, Stewart & Farber, P.C., in Washington, D.C. She has served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Institutional Review Boards, Social Science and Surveys and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program’s Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program.

Professor Mastroianni has also participated in the review of legal and ethical issues on National Institutes of Health study sections, and served on other government and non-government advisory bodies. In addition, she has been nationally recognized for her contributions to health policy, law and bioethics by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Her publications include five books and numerous articles concerning biomedical research and health policy. Professor Mastroianni is admitted to the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia bars.

Read her curriculum vitae (CV) (PDF).