Gail Geller, Sc.D., M.H.S. is a Professor in the Department of Medicine with joint appointments in the Department of Pediatrics and the Bloomberg School of Public Healths Departments of Health, Behavior & Society and Health Policy & Management.  She has a primary affiliation in the Berman Institute of Bioethics and secondary affiliations in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Hopkins/NIH Genetic Counseling Training Program where she directs a course on Ethical & Sociocultural Issues in Genetic & Reproductive Technologies.  She received her B.S. from Cornell University and her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with concentrations in bioethics and social & behavioral sciences.  Most of her work involves empirical research on the ethical and psychosocial implications of the Human Genome Project.  She has been a member of two NIH Consortia: the Cancer Genetics Studies Consortium and the Informed Consent Consortium, and co-chaired the Task Force on Informed Consent for Cancer Susceptibility Testing.  Although her primary research focus has been informed consent for genetic testing, she also has longstanding interests in the areas of medical socialization, provider-patient communication under conditions of uncertainty, and cultural differences in attitudes and practices regarding health and disease. Dr. Geller has become increasingly involved in the area of complementary & alternative medicine (CAM), and the ethical and philosophical issues it raises. She received a prestigious Kornfeld Fellowship to explore the intersection of bioethics and CAM. She has served as co-director of the educational component of the Johns Hopkins CAM Center. She is also the ethics representative on the Data Safety & Monitoring Board of the National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). She is an adjunct faculty member at the Tai Sophia Institute where she co-teaches Rethinking Science and Research for the 21st Century in their Masters Program in the Applied Healing Arts.

Dr. Geller currently serves on the Curriculum Reform Committee at the School of Medicine where she is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the horizontal strands which include ethics and professionalism.  She also has recently been appointed to the scientific review panel for the ELSI Program (Ethical, Legal and Social Issues) at NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute.  She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities, an IRB member, a member of the Ethics Working Group of the National Childrens Study, a consultant to the Informed Consent Working Group of the Secretarys Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing, the Consensus Panel on Emerging Ethical Issues in Smoking and Genetics, the CDCs Program in Public Health Genetics, and the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. In addition to several journal articles, her scholarly achievements include authorship of The ethics of predictive genetic testing in prevention trials involving adolescents, and co-authorship of Recruitment of pregnant, minor adolescents and minor adolescents at risk of pregnancy into longitudinal, observational research: The case of the National Childrens Study, both in E. Kodish, ed, Ethics and Research With Children, co-authorship of Feminism, bioethics & genetics in S. Wolf, ed, Feminism and Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, as well as co-authorship and co-editorship of AIDS, Women and the Next Generation: Towards a Morally Acceptable Public Policy for HIV Testing of Pregnant Women