About

Roberta M. Berry is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and is jointly appointed as Professor of Science and Technology Law, Policy, and Ethics at Georgia State University College of Law, currently on leave. Her research focuses on bioethics, health law and policy, and the legal, ethical, and policy implications of bioscience and biotechnology research and innovation. A secondary research focus is pedagogical approaches to cultivating complex problem solving skills. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses spanning these areas, including courses for Georgia Tech graduate students and Georgia State law students. Dr. Berry is serving as the Director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program. Her publications include two books, The Ethics of Genetic Engineering and A Health Law Reader: An Interdisciplinary Approach, along with numerous articles and book chapters. Notably, she co-authored an award-winning article on research ethics and has written on topics such as the Human Genome Project and insurance. She was the principal investigator for an NSF grant addressing ethically contentious issues in bioscience and biotechnology and active-learning pedagogy. Dr. Berry serves on editorial boards, NSF advisory panels, and has been an external reviewer for academic publishers, funding agencies, and journals. Her recognitions include the W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award, the Ivan Allen Jr. Faculty Legacy Award, and the Outstanding Faculty Member award from the Student Government Association.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Engineering ethics
• Nursing
• Engineering
• Medical education
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Challenges And Opportunities In Ethics Education In Biomedical Engineering

  2020 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering ethics

  issues, how can it find a place in the curriculum? And how can faculty hope to meet the demands of providing a foundational education in ethics spanning three professional domains?

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• Assessing the use of assisted reproductive technology in the United States by non–United States residents

  Fertility and Sterility · 2017-09-12 · 40 citations

  articleOpen access
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• Navigating Bioethical Waters: Two Pilot Projects in Problem-Based Learning for Future Bioscience and Biotechnology Professionals

  Science and Engineering Ethics · 2015-11-12 · 7 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Faith and Brain Death

  2014-01-01

  article
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• Physician - Enforced Vaccinations

  2014-01-01

  articleSenior author
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• Research in the Liberal Arts: Innovation at the Crossroads

  SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology) · 2014-03-13

  article

  Ivan Allen College Founders Day faculty research panel presented on March 13, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am in the Georgia Tech Alumni House. Introductions: Jacqueline J. Royster; Janet Murray. Moderator: Lisa Yaszek. Panelists: Roberta Berry; John Krige; Margaret E. Kosal; Brian Magerko; Juan Moreno-Cruz.

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• Genomic Information and Suffering in the Genomic Era

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2014-08-29

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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• Risk Disclosure and the Recruitment of Oocyte Donors: Are Advertisers Telling the Full Story?

  The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics · 2014-01-01 · 24 citations

  article

  This study analyzes 435 oocyte donor recruitment advertisements to assess whether entities recruiting donors of oocytes to be used for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures include a disclosure of risks associated with the donation process in their advertisements. Such disclosure is required by the self-regulatory guidelines of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and by law in California for advertisements placed in the state. We find very low rates of risk disclosure across entity types and regulatory regimes, although risk disclosure is more common in advertisements placed by entities subject to ASRM's self-regulatory guidelines. Advertisements placed in California are more likely to include risk disclosure, but disclosure rates are still quite low. California-based entities advertising outside the state are more likely to include risk disclosure than non-California entities, suggesting that California's law may have a modest "halo effect." Our results suggest that there is a significant ethical and policy problem with the status quo in light of the known and unknown risks of oocyte donation and the importance of risk disclosure to informed consent in the context of oocyte donation.

  PublisherDOI

• Utilitarianism: Engineering to maximize welfare

  2013-05-13

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• : Genetic engineering, fractious problems, and a navigational approach to policy-making

  2013-05-13

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Recent grants

• Ethically Contentious Research and Innovation: An Interdisciplinary and Interinstitutional Experiment in Ethics Education and Assessment

  NSF · $299k · 2009–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Leslie E. Wolf

  Georgia State University

  6 shared

• Aaron Levine

  6 shared

• Edward L. Queen

  Emory University

  4 shared

• Kathy Kinlaw

  Emory University

  3 shared

• Hillary B. Alberta

  3 shared

• John Robinson

  2 shared

• William D. Hunt

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  2 shared

• Lisa Radtke Bliss

  2 shared

Labs

• Roberta Berry LabPI

Awards & honors

• Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award (Geo…
• Ivan Allen Jr. Faculty Legacy Award (Ivan Allen College of L…
• Outstanding Faculty Member (Student Government Association 2…
• Honorable Mention: 2005 Johnson Award for Best Paper in Ethi…
• Dean's Appreciation Award (Ivan Allen College of Liberal Art…