Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Joxel García, M.D., M.B.A.,has announced the appointment of Jerry A. Menikoff, M.D., J.D. as the director of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary.

Prior to joining OHRP, Dr. Menikoff served as the director of the Office of Human Subjects Research and as a bioethicist, at the National Institutes of Health. He has written extensively on research and human subject protections, including several books and numerous journal articles, over the past fifteen years.

Before his NIH appointments, Dr. Menikoff served for nine years as the chair of the human subjects committee and the hospital ethics committee at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His educational background includes an M.D. from Washington University and law and public policy degrees from Harvard. In addition, Dr. Menikoff has held academic positions in schools of law at the University of Akron, the University of Chicago, and Hofstra University. He is on leave from the position of associate professor of law, ethics and medicine at the University of Kansas.

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