Email

majumder@bcm.edu

Positions

Dalton Tomlin Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

A.B. from Bryn Mawr College

01/1985 - Bryn Mawr, PA United States

J.D. from Yale University

01/1989 - New Haven, CT United States

Ph.D. from Rice University

01/1997 - Houston, TX United States

Advanced Training from University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

01/1998 - Houston, TX United States

Professional Interests

• Ethical and social implications of new genomic and other cutting-edge technologies
• Problems of cost, quality, and access in health care and social determinants of health
• The intersection of religion and spirituality and biomedical ethics

Professional Statement

Mary Anderlik Majumder, J.D., Ph.D., is professor of medicine in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. She received an A.B. magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1985, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989, and a Ph.D. with a specialization in ethics and biomedical ethics from the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University in 1997. Her dissertation on managed care was published by the Indiana University Press in 2001 (The Ethics of Managed Care: A Pragmatic Approach). She later completed a fellowship in Clinical Ethics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her current research interests include the ethical, legal, and social implications of new genomic and other cutting-edge technologies and ethical, policy questions related to problems of cost, quality, and access in health care, and attention to social determinants of health. She also remains interested in the intersection of religion and spirituality and biomedical ethics.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Geary J, Majumder M, Guerrini C, Cook-Deegan R "Development of an Open Database of Genes Included in Hereditary Cancer Genetic Testing Panels Available From Major Sources in the US." JAMA Oncol. 2022 Apr 1;8(4):1-3. Pubmed PMID: 35113133
• Lee SM, Majumder MA "National Institutes of Mental Health Data Archive: Privacy, Consent, and Diversity Considerations and Options for Improvement." AJOB Neurosci. 2022;13(1):3-9. Pubmed PMID: 33834954
• Majumder MA, Blank ML, et al. "Challenges to Building a Gene Variant Commons to Assess Hereditary Cancer Risk: Results of a Modified Policy Delphi Panel Deliberation." J Pers Med. 2021 Jul 8;11(7):646. Pubmed PMID: 34357113
• Majumder MA, Guerrini CJ, McGuire AL "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Value and Risk." Annu Rev Med. 2021 Jan;27(72):151-166. Pubmed PMID: 32735764

Funding

BRAINshare: Sharing Data in BRAIN Initiative Studies - #R01MH126937

Grant funding from BRAIN Initiative - National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health

Sulston Project: Creating an effective knowledge commons for interpreting cancer genomic variants - #R01CA237118

Grant funding from National Cancer Institute

Evaluating Utility and Improving Implementation of Genomic Sequencing for Pediatric Cancer Patients in the Diverse Population and Healthcare Settings of Texas: The KidsCanSeq Study - #U01HG006485

National Human Genome Research Institute and National Cancer Institute, NIH

Building the Medical Information Commons: Participant Engagement and Policy - #DI-2017C2-7726

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute