Lynn Bush PhD, MS, MA

Lynn Bush, PhD MS MA is on the faculty of Pediatric Clinical Genetics and faculty Program Women and Children’s Bioethics at Columbia University Medical Center, and is a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee Children’s Hospital (MSCHONY). Dr. Bush serves as an ethicist and liaison on MFM, pediatric and genomic advisory committees for numerous academic medical centers and professional organizations, incl at ACMG (SELI and Chair PH SIG), NBSTRN, ASHG, ISPD, SMFM, SIMD, APHA, ASBH. Dr. Bush has an interdisciplinary graduate background in clinical and developmental psychology, bioethics, genomics, and neuroscience that informs her research, writing, and teaching on the ethical, psychological, counseling, and policy challenges of genomic diagnosis, screening, clinical care, and research involving embryos, fetuses, newborns, infants, and children. Her focus is on dilemmas posed with genomic based technologies, pediatric inborn errors metabolism, unknown or rare diseases, prenatal diagnosis, and complex neurodevelopmental disorders.
She creates dramatic case vignette-plays as a pedagogical approach to bring to life these complex issues and foster interdisciplinary discourse. Dr. Bush is frequently invited to present at the NIH, NHGRI, ACMG, ACOG, ASHG, SMFM, SIMD, ISPD, ASBH, HMS, Baylor, JHU, and CUMC with recent Grand Rounds at Einstein-Montefiore. She co-authored The Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics, Oxford UP 2014 with Karen Rothenber