Jeffrey R. Botkin, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Utah School of Medicine
Associate Vice President for Research Integrity, University of Utah
Jeff Botkin is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah, an Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics and an Adjunct Professor of Human Genetics. He is the Associate Vice President for Research Integrity at the University of Utah. He was an undergraduate at Princeton University and received his MD at the University of Pittsburgh, an MPH at Johns Hopkins University and was a fellow in Law, Ethics and Health at Johns Hopkins in affiliation with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown. He has over 20 years of experience in the clinical care of pediatric patients. His research is focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic technology with a particular emphasis on research ethics, genetic testing for cancer susceptibility, newborn screening, and prenatal diagnosis. Dr. Botkin is a former Chair of the Committee on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center and serves on a number of federal, local, and national advisory boards including the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection, the FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee, and the CDC’s Working Group on the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention. Dr. Botkin is currently Co-Chair of the Project on Medical Sequencing at the National Human Genome Research Institute. His publications include: Genetics and Criminality: The Potential Misuse of Scientific Information in Court Botkin J, McMahon W, Francis L (eds). The American Psychological Association Press, 1999; Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality Mehlman MJ, Botkin JR, Georgetown University Press, 1998.