Kayte Spector-Bagdady, J.D., M.Be., is a lawyer and bioethicist and Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School. She is also the co-Director for the U-M Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, which won the 2022 American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Cornerstone Award. She is an Associate Editor of The American Journal of Bioethics and was the Chair of the American Heart Association’s Principles for Health Information Collecting, Sharing, and Use. She was an American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Health Law Scholar in 2019 and is a current Greenwall Faculty Scholar. Her work has been funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the Greenwall Foundation, and her research is on improving the governance of research with health data and specimens with a focus on public-private partnerships. Before joining U-M, she was an Associate Director for President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and is a former practicing drug and device attorney. She received her B.A. from Middlebury College, her J.D. and M.Be. from the University of Pennsylvania, and was an empirical bioethics postdoctoral fellow at U-M.