Columbia University Irving Medical Center
NY, NY
Dr. Maya Sabatello is a tenured Associate Professor of Medical Sciences at the Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics and the Division of Ethics at Columbia University, where she also co-directs the Precision Medicine & Society Speaker Seminar and Workgroup. A former litigator with transdisciplinary background, she explores the ethical, social and policy issues relating to biomedical technologies, genomic information and Big Data and the impacts thereof on social structures, communities, individual rights, and health outcomes. Dr. Sabatello’s NIH-funded mixed-methods and community-based participatory research program focuses on the ramifications of genetic data in non-clinical settings (e.g., schools); the psychosocial impact of genomic data on adolescents and families; challenges in translational genomic research; and issues of trust and inclusion of people with disabilities in health research, especially genomic and precision medicine research. Dr. Sabatello served as a member of the Genomic IRB at Columbia University in 2015-2022, and as Co-chair of NHGRI’s Community Engagement in Genomics Working Group (CEGWG) in 2021-2025; she serves as a member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of NIH’s All of Us Research Program since 2017.
D04 - Inclusive Informed Consent: Engaging People with Disabilities in Research Participation
Saturday, November 8, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM ET