Jessica Wilen Berg

Jessica Wilen Berg is an American Doctor of Law, and specialist in Public Health (MPH), currently serving as co-Dean and endowed Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Berg is the first female Dean in the law school's 129 year history. She also is also Professor in the Departments of Bioethics, and of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the CWRU School of Medicine.[1][2][3] She is a reference book author in the area of informed consent.[4] Her scholarly opinion is often probed by institutions and media on ethical aspects in the use of innovative biomedical procedures.[5][6][7][8][9]

Education

Berg graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences in 1991.[1] In 1994, she graduated as Juris Doctor (JD) cum laude from Cornell Law School, Cornell University.[1] She undertook consecutive positions as a fellow at the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law (1994), fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia School of Medicine (1994), and Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine (1996-1996).[1] In 2009 she completed a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.[1]

Career

Berg taught at several law schools in the US. She was a Fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia (1994), and a Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (1995 - 1996).[1]

In 1999 she became Assistant Professor at Case Western University School of Law, where she has successively been Associate Professor (2003), Professor of Law, Bioethics and Public Health (2005–present), Associate Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy (2006 - 2007), Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law (2014–present), Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center (2006 - 2014), and co-Dean (2013 - present), together with professor Michael Scharf.[1][10]

She was Director of Academic Affairs and member of the working group on Healthcare Organizational Ethics of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,[1][11] and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association.[1][12] As part of an academic group with Max Mehlman and others, in 2006 she was a recipient of a large NIH research grant to develop guidelines for the use of human subjets in genetic research.[13] In 2008, Berg was named Health Policy Researcher of the Year by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, and she received the Case Western Reserve University Mather Spotlight Award for Excellence in Research in 2009.[1]

For many years she has lectured on bioethical subjects at many universities across the US.[5][6][14][15][16][17] For several years she has been an editorial reviewer of the Journal of the American Medical Association.[18] As an expert on bioethics, her opinion on controversial matters in medical research and practice is often covered on news media.[8][9][19][20]

Works

Papers

Berg has authored over one hundred academic articles in peer-reviewed sources.[21] Her most cited papers are:

  • Wynia, M. K.; Latham, S. R.; Kao, A. C.; Berg, J. W.; Emanuel, L. L. (1999-11-18). "Medical professionalism in society". The New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (21): 1612–1616. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911183412112. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 10577119[22]
  • Berg, J. W.; Appelbaum, P. S.; Grisso, T. (1996). "Constructing competence: formulating standards of legal competence to make medical decisions". Rutgers Law Review. 48 (2): 345–371. ISSN 0036-0465. PMID 16086484[23]
  • Doukas, D. J.; Berg, J. W. (2001). "The family covenant and genetic testing". The American journal of bioethics: AJOB. 1 (3): 3–10. doi:10.1162/152651601750417784. ISSN 1526-5161. PMID 11954587[24]

Books

Berg JW, Appelbaum PS, Lidz CW and Parker LS: Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice. 2nd Edition, Fair Lawn, NJ, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-974778-8. OCLC 253007374[4] The book has been recommended as a professional reference source on the theory and practice of informed consent,[25] and cited as an authority in official documents.[26]

References
  1. "Jessica Berg". School of Law | Case Western Reserve University. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  2. "Jessica W. Berg - Dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University". THE ORG. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  3. "Jessica Berg". The Conversation. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  4. Informed consent : legal theory and clinical practice. Jessica W. Berg, Paul S. Appelbaum (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-974778-8. OCLC 253007374.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. "Law and bioethics' Jessica Berg presents, publishes on public health, surrogacy and more". The Daily. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  6. "Pitt's Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry Oct. 6 | Pitt Chronicle | University of Pittsburgh". www.chronicle.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  7. "U.S. scientists are fixing genetic defects in human embryos. Should you be nervous?". PBS NewsHour. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  8. "Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead—Now's the Time to Consider Ethics". Observer. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  9. Wagner, Dennis. "The COVID culture war: At what point should personal freedom yield to the common good?". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  10. Bianco, Julia. "Law School's former interim deans named as co-deans". The Observer. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  11. Ozar, D; Berg, J; Werhane, PH; Emanuel, L (2000). "Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Toward a Model for Ethical Decision Making by Provider Organizations". pdfslide.net. American Medical Association.
  12. Wynia, Matthew K.; Latham, Stephen R.; Kao, Audiey C.; Berg, Jessica W.; Emanuel, Linda L. (1999-11-18). "Medical Professionalism in Society". New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (21): 1612–1616. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911183412112. ISSN 0028-4793.
  13. "Case Law School receives $773,000 NIH grant to develop guidelines for genetic enhancement research". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  14. "Making Decisions for Others – Surrogates & Unrepresented Patients (May 7-8, 2015) | Bioethics Research Library". Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  15. "Conference Highlights". College of Law. 2017-06-19. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  16. "Seminar Series - Surrogate Decision Making in the Internet Age". Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  17. "Guest Speaker: The Great Cannabis Debate | UO Pre-Law Advising". prelaw.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  18. Williams, Elaine S. (2000-04-19). "The JAMA 1999 Editorial Peer Review Report". JAMA. 283 (15): 2019–2033. doi:10.1001/jama.283.15.2019. ISSN 0098-7484.
  19. Baker, Sam (Nov 27, 2018). "The ethical red flags of genetically edited babies". axios.com.
  20. "Should scientists edit a human embryo?". WION. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  21. "Jessica Berg". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  22. Wynia, M. K.; Latham, S. R.; Kao, A. C.; Berg, J. W.; Emanuel, L. L. (1999-11-18). "Medical professionalism in society". The New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (21): 1612–1616. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911183412112. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 10577119.
  23. Berg, J. W.; Appelbaum, P. S.; Grisso, T. (1996). "Constructing competence: formulating standards of legal competence to make medical decisions". Rutgers Law Review. 48 (2): 345–371. ISSN 0036-0465. PMID 16086484.
  24. Doukas, D. J.; Berg, J. W. (2001). "The family covenant and genetic testing". The American journal of bioethics: AJOB. 1 (3): 3–10. doi:10.1162/152651601750417784. ISSN 1526-5161. PMID 11954587.
  25. Petrila, John (2002-04-01). "Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice, second edition". Psychiatric Services. 53 (4): 492–492. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.53.4.492. ISSN 1075-2730.
  26. Hill, B. Jessie (2019). "On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit" (PDF). supremecourt.gov.
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