Jerry Menikoff
Professor
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Jerry Menikoff is Professor of Bioethics within the Centre for Biomedical Ethics. He also is a Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Law, NUS.
Trained as an attorney and physician, he has for years worked in the field of law and bioethics. Most recently, he has been involved with the ethics and regulation of research with human beings. After being in charge of the program for protecting intramural research participants at the United States’ National Institutes of Health, he subsequently became the director of the Office for Human Research Protections.
During his 14 years in that role, he was a leader in the successful efforts to revise the U.S. regulations for protecting research participants. Many of the specific changes – including making consent forms public, eliminating duplicative reviews for multi-institutional research, and strengthening informed consent so that it better fulfilled its ethical underpinnings – were positions that he had long championed.
Among his publications are the books Law and Bioethics: An Introduction (Georgetown University Press) and What the Doctor Didn’t Say: The Hidden Truth about Medical Research (Oxford University Press).