Anna Mastroianni

Professor Mastroianni joined the UW law school faculty in 1998 and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the UW Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, School of Medicine, and an Affiliate Scholar at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics in Seattle.  She teaches Health Law and Bioethics, including issues of reproduction, in the School of Law, the UW Institute for Public Health Genetics, and other units throughout the university.  She has worked in a number of legal and governmental policy positions in Washington DC, including Associate Director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Study Director of the Institute of Medicine. She also practiced health law with Epstein Becker and Green, P.C., and Green, Stewart & Farber, P.C. in Washington, DC. She has served on the National Research Council's Committee on Institutional Review Boards, Social Science and Surveys and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program.  Professor Mastroianni has also participated in the review of legal and ethical issues on National Institutes of Health study sections, and served on other government and non-government advisory bodies. In addition, she has been nationally recognized for her contributions to health policy, law and bioethics by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Her publications include six books and numerous peer-reviewed articles on law, medicine and bioethics. Professor Mastroianni is admitted to the Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia bars.