Michelle N. Meyer

About Michelle N. Meyer

I am an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences at Geisinger, where in addition to conducting normative ethics scholarship and empirical legal research, I use survey experiments and qualitative methods to investigate judgments and decision-making related to science, innovation, and health. I am also Faculty Co-Director of Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team (BIT). The BIT designs, implements, and uses large field experiments to rigorously evaluate provider- and patient-facing “nudges” and other behaviorally informed interventions that aim to make healthy choices easier. My work has appeared in leading journals of bioethics (American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal), law (Harvard Law Review, Administrative Law Review), science (Science, Nature, PNAS), and medicine (New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Network Open), and in the New York Times, Slate, Wired, and the Los Angeles Times. My research has been has been funded by the NIH (NIA, NHGRI, NCI, NCATS, and the Office of the Director), the FDA, the NSF, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and covered by Science, The Economist, and many other leading media outlets around the world.I have served on NASEM study committees, an American Psychological Association blue ribbon commission, the editorial board of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, the Board of Directors of Open Humans Foundation (formerly PersonalGenomes.org), and the Ethics and Compliance Advisory Board of PatientsLikeMe, and am a Team Scientist with Wharton\'s Behavior Change for Good Initiative.Before joining Geisinger, I was an Assistant Professor and Director of Bioethics Policy in the Clarkson University–Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Bioethics Program; an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities; and a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I earned a Ph.D. in religious studies, with a focus on applied ethics, from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where I was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, I clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.

Experience

1. Chief Bioethics Officer

   Geisinger

   Jul 2023 — Present

Education

• University of Virginia

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., M.A.), Religious Studies

  1996 — 2003

• Harvard Law School

  Doctor of Law (J.D.), Law

  2003 — 2006

• Dartmouth College

  A.B., Religious Studies; Moral Philosophy minor

  1992 — 1996