Annette Clark

Biography

After receiving an M.D. with Honors from the University of Washington's School of Medicine and her J.D. summa cum laude from the Seattle University School of Law, Dean Clark joined the School of Law faculty in 1989. From 1997-2001 and again from 2005-2009, as Associate Dean, she served as the chief academic officer for the School of Law, overseeing the academic program, including the curriculum and centers and institutes, as well as the faculty.

She received the Seattle Journal for Social Justice Faculty Award in 2005, the Dean's Medal in 2006, and the Outstanding Faculty Award in December 2007. President Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., recently named Dean Clark the 2008-09 James B. McGoldrick, S.J., Fellow, which is awarded to the faculty member or administrator who best exemplifies commitment to students and to the values of a Jesuit education.

She teaches, writes and consults in the areas of medical liability and bioethics and is a frequent national and local lecturer on bioethics-related topics. Her scholarship operates at the interface of health care, law, and health policy, with a particular emphasis on end-of-life issues. She has published articles in the New York University Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Tulane Law Review, among others.

She is a member of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys and volunteers her time with the MultiCare Institutional Review Board, which is dedicated to ensuring patient safety in human subjects research, and the Safe Crossings Foundation Board, whose mission is to fund and support grief counseling for children in King County.

Book Chapters

Consent to Health Care, coauthored with Ann Nakamoto & Barbara Shickich, (Washington Health Law Manual 2rd ed., 2006).

Decision Making for Incompetent Patients, in Washington Health Law Manual, (Washington Society of Hospital Attorneys, 1996).

Articles

The Right to Die: The Broken Road from Quinlan to Schiavo, 37 Loyola U. Chicago L. J. 385 (2006).

Corporate Ethics and Governance in the Healthcare Market Place: An Introduction, 3 Seattle J. Soc. Justice 205 (2004).

Ethics2: The Ethics of Bioethics in the Biotechnology Industry, 3 Seattle J. Soc. Justice 311 (2004).

Autonomy and Death, 71 Tul. L. Rev. 45 (1996).

On Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Judicial Clerk Selection Process and the Medical Matching Model, 83 Geo. L.J. 1749 (1995).

Preface: A Symposium: Physician-assisted Suicide Articles, 18 Seattle U. L. Rev. 449 (1995).

Abortion and the Pied Piper of Compromise, 68 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 265 (1993).