Ellen Wright Clayton is an American academic specialzing in law and medicine. She is theRosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics atVanderbilt University and chairwoman of theInstitute of Medicine Board at thePopulation Health and Public Health Practice. She was the 2013 recipient of theDavid Rall Medal.[1][2]
Wright Clayton was born inHouston,Texas, where she attended school. She graduated fromDuke with a degree inzoology and then obtained master's degree inbiochemistry fromStanford University.[3] Some years later she got her degree in law from Yale, and medical degree fromHarvard respectively.[4]
From 1988, Wright Clayton served asVanderbilt University faculty member and since that time has published two books and over 150peer-reviewed articles relating to law,medicine andpublic health. She serves on the advisory board panel of both theNational Institutes of Health andHuman Genome Organisation.[4] In 2006, she was elected toInstitute of Medicine and three years later became its council member.
In 2012, she began her three-year term as theBachelor of Philosophy chairwoman atVanderbilt University.[1] Since November 6, 2013, she has served asNashville Business Journal editor.[5] Currently she teaches in bothmedical andlaw schools and is a director of Vanderbilt'sCenter for Genetics and Health Policy.[3]
Clayton is afellow ofAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science andAmerican Pediatric Society.[4] She was elected a fellow of theAmerican College of Medical Informatics in 2023.[6]
On Sundays she sang in a choir.[3]
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