Janet Malek, PhD
Program Lead, Bioethics Outreach
     Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine 
Associate Professor of the Practice
     Social Sciences Research Institute
Senior Lecturing Fellow and Co-Director of Graduate Studies
     Applied Ethics & Policy program, Initiative for Science & Society
Professor of Medical Ethics
     Baylor College of Medicine

janet.malek@duke.edu

Janet Malek, PhD is a Senior Lecturing Fellow and Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Applied Ethics & Policy master’s program in Duke University’s Science & Society Initiative. Dr. Malek earned her PhD in philosophy and bioethics from Rice University served as a clinical ethics consultant at Houston Methodist Hospital, which now informs her work teaching ethics and professionalism to a range of learners from master’s students to medical students and residents to faculty. Dr. Malek chairs the Ethics Committee for the North American Fetal Therapy Network, serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians’ ethics committee, and is a Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care. Her research focuses on issues related to clinical ethics, reproductive decision making, and fetal and pediatric ethics.