Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Amy L. McGuire, is an assistant professor of medicine with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine and a Baylor Educational Scholars Fellow.
She received her B.A. in psychology, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in December 1995; her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in 2000, and her Ph.D. in medical humanities from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 2004. While in law school, McGuire was a member of the Houston Law Review and a founding editor of the Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy.
Prior to joining the BCM center, McGuire held a three-year fellowship at UTMB in medical jurisprudence, where she taught a required course in medical jurisprudence to the medical students and edited two consecutive editions of "Texas Medical Jurisprudence: A Self-Study Guide."
McGuire's research interests focus on legal and ethical issues in research involving human subjects. She is particularly interested in and has authored papers on issues of informed consent in clinical practice and confidentiality in human genomic sequencing research. Most recently, she has been published in Science and Annals of Internal Medicine.