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Presidential Endowed Chair in Health
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Dena S. Davis is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Health at Lehigh University where she teaches a variety of courses in bioethics. Dr. Davis received her Bachelor of Arts from Marlboro College, her Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia, and her PhD in Religion from the University of Iowa. She was a Fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Davis has been a Visiting Scholar at the National Human Genome Research Institute, Arizona State University, and the Hastings Center. She holds an adjunct appointment at Case Western Reserve University's Department of Biomedical Ethics, and is a Faculty Associate in CWRU's Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law. She is the author of several articles on biomedical ethics and two books, Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children's Futures (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Notes from a Narrow Ridge: Religious Studies and Bioethics (University Publishing Group, 1999), which she coauthored. A third book, How Genes Tell Stories, is in progress.