Karen H. Rothenberg is the dean of University of Maryland School of Law and director of the University's Law and Health Care Program. She recently completed a series of studies on legislative approaches to genetic information in both the health insurance and workplace contexts, which were published in Science. Past president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, she has served on a number of NIH, panels on the recruitment and retention of women in clinical studies, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics. She just completed a term on the American Bar Association's Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law. She holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and graduated from University of Virginia School of Law.