Bio
Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA, is a Professor of Social Medicine and Research Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, where she was also the first Associate Director for UNC’s Center for Bioethics. She previously served as Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Ethics, and Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). Her research addresses socially and morally complex issues in reproductive medicine, including conscience in the provision of reproductive care. Dr. Lyerly has published extensively on these issues, including co-authoring Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post-Dobbs Landscape in the Hastings Center Report.