Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD, MA, is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). She is a senior bioethicist and philosopher whose work examines the ethical and policy implications of artificial intelligence in medicine. Her research focuses on AI-driven clinical and ethics decision support tools, value alignment and transparency in algorithmic recommendations, stakeholder framing effects, algorithmic fairness and bias (including sex and demographic disparities), and the integration of machine learning into high-stakes medical decision-making such as advanced heart failure therapies and neuromodulation.

Dr. Blumenthal-Barby leads federally funded research projects on AI-enabled patient decision support and the ethics of predictive analytics in clinical care. She has published widely in leading journals in bioethics, health policy, and medicine, and serves in editorial leadership roles including Associate Editor of The American Journal of Bioethics. She is an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center and has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally on the ethical use and governance of AI in health care.