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Vardit Ravitsky

Vardit Ravitsky is president and CEO of The Hastings Center for Bioethics, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute, and Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

  • AI in Medicine

    The Limits of Unauthorized-Practice in Regulating Mental Health AI

    In May, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The alleged “practitioner,” however, was not a physician or…

    The Limits of Unauthorized-Practice in Regulating Mental Health AI

  • Genetics & Genomics

    Whose Child Is She? The Genetics–Gestation Divide

    On May 11, the Israeli Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in the case known as the “Assuta Embryo Mix-Up.” The case has drawn widespread attention in Israel and abroad — not just because…

    Whose Child Is She? The Genetics–Gestation Divide