Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D., is director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy at Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He is also a research professor in Public Policy Studies at Duke University and in the Department of Medicine at Duke Medical School. Until July 2002, he directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship program at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences, after four years as founding director of IOM's National Cancer Policy Board. While at IOM and other parts of the National Academies, he worked on mental health policy, tobacco control, cancer policy, biomedical research policy, and federal R&D budgeting. He worked at the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health in its inaugural year (1989-1990), and was acting executive director of a congressional bioethics commission from 1988-1989. From 1982 through 1988, he worked at the Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress, joining OTA as a Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow directly from a postdoctoral and medical residency position in oncogene molecular biology at the University of Colorado. He graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1979, and from Harvard College in 1975.

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