"Right to Try" - Damage Control, Physician Responsibilities, and Special Populations

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, is an academic attorney-bioethicist and the John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarly work focuses on the ethics and regulation of human subjects research and related areas, including payment to research participants, research with biospecimens, the use of social media in research settings, patient-engaged research, research risks to bystanders, access to investigational therapies (including “Right to Try”), and the quality and effectiveness of Institutional Review Board oversight of research. She is also an expert in conscientious objection in medicine; her book, Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise, was published by MIT Press in 2008. Professor Fernandez Lynch has served as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) since 2014. Prior to joining Penn, she was Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and Teaching Faculty in the Master of Bioethics program at Harvard Medical School. She has also worked as an attorney in private practice focused on pharmaceuticals regulation, and as a bioethicist at the NIH’s Division of AIDS and President Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Professor Fernandez Lynch earned her BA, JD, and Master of Bioethics all from Penn.