Meet our expert speaker – Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN

Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN, is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, with additional affiliations across Penn Law and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. Her research focuses on the ethical and regulatory dimensions of human subjects research and the social, legal, and ethical issues that arise as research findings move into clinical care, with particular emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging, Dr. Largent is a Greenwall Faculty Scholar (Class of 2023), recipient of the 2023 Baruch A. Brody Award in Bioethics, and an elected fellow of the Hastings Center. Her work appears in leading journals including The Hastings Center Report, American Journal of Bioethics, NEJM, and JAMA, and she co-authored Clinical Research Ethics Consultation: A Casebook (Oxford University Press). She holds degrees from Georgetown University, Penn Nursing, Harvard’s PhD program in Health Policy (ethics concentration), and Harvard Law School, and previously served as a fellow in the NIH Department of Bioethics and clerked for Chief Judge Jeffrey