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Personal Biography of Dr. Jerry Menikoff
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Dr. Jerry Menikoff is Associate Professor of Law, Ethics & Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Law and Public Policy at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Since 1998 he has served as chairperson of the Institutional Review Board at that institution. He is also currently Medical Director of Hospital Ethics at the University of Kansas Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (magna cum laude in Mathematics, 1973), and also received in 1977 a J.D. (magna cum laude; Editor and Officer of the Harvard Law Review) and M.P.P. (Public Policy) from Harvard. Dr. Menikoff earned an M.D. in 1986 from Washington University (St. Louis). He served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and has been a faculty fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, and at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University.
Beginning in the Spring of 2007, Dr. Menikoff will be on a leave of absence from the University of Kansas, serving as the Director, Office of Human Subjects Research, National Institutes of Health. That office is responsible for day-to-day oversight of the NIH Intramural Research Program's human research protection program, including policy development and educational activities.
For the past several years, Dr. Menikoff's research interests have concentrated on bioethics in general, and more particularly on the ethics of research with human subjects. His widely used textbook Law and Bioethics: An Introduction (Georgetown University Press 2001) is now in its second printing, and was chosen in 2002 by the Association of American University Presses as one of "The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About." He is a coauthor of the recently published textbook (and accompanying teacher's manual), The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects (LexisNexis 2005). His newest book, providing an evaluation of how the United States regulates research with human subjects, will be published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. He has on a number of recent occasions been hired as a consultant by the federal Office for Human Research Protections, and was one of the eight panelists convened by that agency to review the controversial issues raised by the ARDS Network studies (see Jeffrey M. Drazen, Controlling Research Trials, New Engl. J. Med. 2003;348:1377-80). He has recently written about the issues that led to the creation of the EPA Human Studies Review Board in Of Babies, Bugs, and Bombast: A Look Behind the Crash-and-Burn of the CHEERS Pesticide Study, 4(14) Medical Research Law & Policy Report 586 (BNA) (July 20, 2005), and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Medical Research Law & Policy Report.