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Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D. is an assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She received her B.A. in psychology, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in December 1995, her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in 2000, and her Ph.D. in medical humanities, with distinction, from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2004. Dr. McGuire's research interests focus on legal and ethical issues in research involving human subjects. She is particularly interested in issues of informed consent and confidentiality in human genome sequencing research. Her research is funded by NIH (1 R01 HG004333-01), Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, and a Baylor College of Medicine Basic and Clinical Collaborative Research Grant. Dr. McGuire is a member of the Personalized Health Care Working Group (PHC) for the American Health Information Community (AHIC), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and is co-chair of the Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security Sub-group. She is also a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), Working Group on Participant and Data Protection (PDP) for the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) and is on the advisory board for the X Prize in Genomics and Darwin2009. Dr. McGuire's responsibilities at Baylor include directing and teaching the first-year medical student ethics course, teaching medical and pediatric residents, and serving on several committees, including the ethics committees at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and The Ben Taub General Hospital, the Baylor Institutional Review Board, and the Baylor Curriculum Committee.