Holly Fernandez Lynch
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Law, University of Pennsylvania
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Pennsylvania. She pursues conceptual and empirical scholarship regarding clinical research ethics and regulation, access to investigational medicines outside clinical trials, and FDA pharmaceutical policy, especially early approval standards for diseases with unmet treatment needs. She is a board member of Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R) and the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics, as well as a fellow of the Hastings Center and a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine. Professor Fernandez Lynch has previously worked as an attorney in private practice, bioethicist serving NIH’s Division of AIDS, analyst with President Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and executive director of Harvard Law School's bioethics and health law research program.
