Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN, is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health
Policy. She holds a secondary appointment at Penn Law, is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health
Economics, and is affiliated with the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.
Dr. Largent’s work explores ethical and regulatory aspects of human subjects research and the translation of research
findings into care with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease. Her work is supported by a K01 career development
award from the National Institute on Aging. In 2020, Dr. Largent was named a Greenwall Faculty Scholar; her faculty
scholar project, “Autonomy on the Precipice of Cognitive Decline,” seeks to understand how our evolving
understanding of Alzheimer’s disease affects patients and their families. Dr. Largent’s work has been published in
leading bioethics and medical journals, including The Hastings Center Report, American Journal of Bioethics, New
England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA. She co-authored Clinical Research Ethics Consultation: A
Casebook (Oxford University Press).
Dr. Largent studied Science, Technology, and International Affairs as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and
earned a second degree in nursing from Penn Nursing. She received her PhD in Health Policy, with a concentration in
ethics, from Harvard University and her JD from Harvard Law School. Dr. Largent was previously a fellow in the
Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (2008-2010) and clerked for Chief Judge Jeffrey Howard
of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2016-2017).
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