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Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, is Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Chief of the Division of Ethics at Columbia University. Trained as a medical anthropologist, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on the ethical and social dimensions of emerging biotechnologies, including the use of race, ethnicity and ancestry in genomics, governance of biobanking, and equity of precision medicine and AI applications in healthcare. Dr. Lee is Co-Director of the NHGRI funded Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA) and is Past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors. She serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Bioethics and Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics and is a member of the US Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.

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