Lynn Wein Bush, PhD, MSBioethics, MA

Lynn Wein Bush, PhD, MSBioethics, MA, is a Bioethicist-Developmental Scientist and Educator on faculty Pediatrics, Genetics-Genomics Boston Children's Hospital (BCH), affiliate faculty Translational Neuroscience Center, and Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS), faculty HMS Genetic Training Program, member HMS Center for Bioethics, and member of The Academy. She earned degrees from Columbia University in Clinical Psychology, child & neuroscience subspecialty (PhD, MS, Internship and Fellowships); MS Bioethics, genomics-pediatrics focus; MA Developmental Psychology, infancy and neurodevelopmental-centric; and postgraduate training in genomics, fetology, and neuroscience. At BCH, Dr. Bush serves as a member Fetal Therapy Board, member Ethics Advisory Committee, member Gene Therapy Working Group, Academy educational leader, and Collaborator to the Timothy YuLab on bioethical aspects of individualized interventional genomics.

Her decades of experience in NICUs, PICUs, Pediatric specialty units, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine clinics informs her writings, research, and teaching on the ethical, psychosocial, scientific, and policy challenges of genomic screening/testing and innovative therapies focused on the complexities, uncertainties, and contextual nuances posed during the prenatal-neonatal-pediatric period, especially with rare disease, the "diagnostic odyssey continuum", inborn errors of metabolism, neurodevelopment disorders, and novel therapeutics. She is a frequent international presenter and has senior policy roles and leadership positions on national-international committees, workgroups, societies, and journals, with recent book chapters and scholarship including Pediatrics, Nature, Nature Medicine, American J Human Genetics, Medical Education, International J Neonatal Screening, and has been honored with endowed visiting professorships and the 2023 BCH Academy for Teaching and Educational Scholarship-Innovation Ambassador Award.