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Christine Grady, RN, PhD
Christine Grady is the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. She is also Head of the Department's Section on Human Subjects Research. She was formerly Assistant Director for Clinical Science at the National Institute of Nursing Research (1994-96). Her previous work includes clinical practice in oncology, neurology, community health, immunologic disorders, hospice, and HIV disease; educating nurses and other health care professionals in both academic and clinical settings; and research in HIV symptom management. Current research interests include research subject recruitment, incentives, vulnerability, and international research ethics.
Dr. Grady received a BS in nursing and biology from Georgetown University, a MSN in community health from Boston College, and a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. She has served as a consultant to international bodies such as UNAIDS (1996 and 1998) and the Pan American Health Organization (1999) and spent two years in Brazil with Project Hope. She has also served as a staff member to the U.S. President's Commission on HIV Infection (1987-88) and is currently a member of the Clinical Research Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine.
She has participated in numerous intergovernmental task forces and is the recipient of several awards, including the NIH Director's award twice (1997 and 1999) and the Assistant Secretary of Health Award (1988). Dr. Grady is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a fellow of the Hastings Center. She is the author of over 40 published papers in bioethics, HIV disease, and nursing that have appeared in books and scholarly journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Nursing Research, and others. She is the author of a book, The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive HIV Vaccine (Indiana University Press, 1995). She currently serves on three editorial boards of professional journals in bioethics and nursing, and has lectured widely at national and international conferences, professional societies, universities, and health care institutions on ethical issues in clinical research and clinical care.
