Holly Fernandez Lynch

Spring Term 2013

Lecturer on Law

Appointments

• Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics

Additional Information

Ms. Lynch will teach the seminar Bioethics in the Courts in the Spring term 2013.

Biographical Statement

Holly Fernandez Lynch is Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, where she was previously an Academic Fellow. Her scholarly work focuses on the ethics of human subjects research and issues at the heart of the doctor-patient relationship, such as conflicts of conscience in health care. Holly practiced pharmaceuticals law at Hogan & Hartson, LLP in Washington, DC (now Hogan Lovells), and worked as a bioethicist in the Human Subjects Protection Branch at NIH's Division of AIDS. She also served as Senior Policy and Research Analyst for President Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Holly graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Levy Scholar in Law and Bioethics. She earned her Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine