Kayte Spector-Bagdady

Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe, is the George E. Wantz Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Center for History, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Ethics in Medicine. She is the first to make tenure at the U-M medical school with JD as their terminal degree. She is also the Director of Michigan Bioethics, which won the 2022 American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH) Cornerstone Award. At U-M she is also the Chair of the Research Ethics Committee, the ethicist on the Michigan Medicine Human Data and Biospecimen Release Committee, and a clinical ethicist. She teaches the Responsible Conduct of Research as well as Research Ethics and the Law.