Jessica Berg, JD
Jessica Wilen Berg is professor of law and biomedical ethics with a joint appointment in Case Western Reserve University's Schools of Law and Medicine. She received both her BA and JD, with honors, from Cornell University, where she was a notes editor of the Cornell Law Review. She received her MPH from Case Western Reserve University Medical School.
Ms. Berg joined the faculty at Case Western in 1999 after serving as the Director of Academic Affairs of the Institute for Ethics and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association. While in Chicago, she also taught courses at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University Law School. Before that, she was a visiting professor at the Michigan State University medical school, a Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a fellow at both the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
Ms. Berg teaches Bioethics and Law, Food and Drug Law, Research Law and Regulation, Public Health Law and Ethics and Scientific Integrity. She is first author on a book published by Oxford University Press entitled Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice. Her publications and research span a variety of areas including medical decision-making, research with human subjects, confidentiality, reproductive law and ethics, genetic enhancement, end-of-life care, professionalism, public health law and ethics and e-medicine.
Ms. Berg is current a member of the National Cancer Institute's Pediatric Central IRB and the legal consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics. She provides consultations for other professional medical organizations and Institutes within NIH. In addition, she is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics. In 2008 Ms. Berg was named Health Policy Researcher of the Year by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.