Karen Maschke

Karen J. Maschke is a Research Scholar at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York. She has a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and was a Bioethics Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2013 she attended the Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Neuroscience & Society. The Boot Camp gives participants a basic foundation in cognitive and affective neuroscience and equips them to be informed consumers of neuroscience research. She has been involved with several NIH-funded studies that focused on the legal, ethical, and policy issues surrounding human genomic research and translational genomics. More recent work involves exploring how values, interests, and political ideology play a role in shaping, framing, and evaluating evidence about the potential benefits and harms of new biomedical technologies, including stem cell interventions and novel neurotechnologies. An article co-authored with Michael K. Gusmano that explores the recent debate about patients’ access to novel stem cell interventions will be published in 2016 in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.