Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady is a lawyer/bioethicist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School and Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine. Her research focuses on the secondary research use of health data and biospecimens and has been funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the Greenwall Foundation. She currently holds an NIH Career Development Award studying the genetic data-sharing market with a focus on agreements between private industry and academic medical centers. She is the Chair of the U-M Research Ethics Committee and is also on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities. Prof. Spector received her J.D. and M.Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and School of Medicine respectively after graduating from Middlebury College. She is also a former practicing biotech attorney and was Associate Director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues under President Obama (2010-2015).