Patricia King is a professor of law, medicine, ethics, and public policy at Georgetown University Law School and is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University's School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her work in the field of bioethics has included service on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and the Ethics, Legal and Social Issues Working Group of the Human Genome Project.