Biosketch

Seema Shah’s research focuses on the ethics of international research, the ethics of research with children, and the intersection of law and bioethics. She currently serves as a consultant for the Division of AIDS on its clinical sciences review committee and as an ethics consultant for the Clinical Center.

She has published in the field of bioethics in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Bioethics, and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. More recently, she has focused on the ethics of research with prisoners in execution by lethal injection, and has a forthcoming publication on that topic in the American Criminal Law Review.

She earned her bachelor’s and juris doctor degrees from Stanford University. She previously served as a federal law clerk in the Eastern District of California and a predoctoral fellow in the NIH Department of Bioethics.

She has lectured on human subjects research issues at conferences run by PRIM&R, ASBH, ASTMH, and internationally in such locations as Botswana, South Africa, and Mali.

Selected Publications

S. Shah, How Lethal Injection Reform Constitutes Impermissible Research on Prisoners, forthcoming, Am. Crim. L. Rev., 2008; 45(3).

S. Shah, Beyond Barriers: A Surprising Lesson about the Complexity of Culture, Organizational Ethics: Healthcare, Business, and Policy, 2006; 3(1): 73-75.

D. Wendler, S. Shah, How Can Medical Training and Informed Consent be Reconciled with Volume-Outcome Data?, Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2006; 17(2): 149-157.

A. Whittle, S. Shah, B. Wilfond, G. Gensler, D. Wendler, Institutional Review Board Practices Regarding Assent in Pediatric Research, Pediatrics, 2004; 113(6): 1747-1752.

S. Shah, A. Whittle, B. Wilfond, G. Gensler, D. Wendler, How Do Institutional Review Boards Apply the Risk and Benefit Standards for Pediatric Research? JAMA, 2004; 291: 476-482.

D. Wendler, S. Shah, Should Children Decide Whether they are Enrolled in Non-Beneficial Research? Am. J. Bioethics, 2004; 3(4): 1-7.

D. Wendler, S. Shah, A. Whittle, B. Wilfond, Non-Beneficial Research with Individuals Who Cannot Consent: Is it Ethically Better to Enroll Healthy or Affected Individuals? IRB 2003; 24(4): 1-4.

S. Shah, The “Subject’s Condition Requirement”: Unjustified Exceptionalism in the Federal Regulations, The Legal Brief: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Exchange, 2003; 6(5).

S. Shah, Transplantation Ethics Book Review, Progress in Transplantation, 2001; 11(4): 298-299.

H. Forster,  S. Shah, Legal Trends in Bioethics, J. Clinical Ethics, 2001; 12(3): 319-330.

M. Forzley, H. Forster, S. Shah, E. Howe, International Health Law, ABA Int’l Law, 2001; 35(2): 713-721.