Association of American Medical Colleges
Washington, DC
Heather Pierce, JD, MPH is the Acting Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Director for Science Policy, and Regulatory Counsel at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She serves as AAMC's leader for scientific regulatory issues including human subject protections, clinical research, conflicts of interest, research data sharing, evidence-based regulation, and collaborations between industry, government, and academia in biomedical research. She is the subject matter expert for the AAMC's Forum on Conflict of Interest in Academe, for Convey, the AAMC's global financial interest disclosure system, and most recently for COVID-19 testing and treatments. She was the founding Director of Policy for the AAMC Center for Health Justice, which was established in 2021.
Pierce is a former chair of the Board of Directors of PRIM&R, where she has been a regular contributor to in-person programs and webinars and served on the Board from 2014 through 2019. She is vice chair of the Board fo Directors for the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. She regularly speaks at national forums on issues related to the protection of human subjects, regulatory burden, research ethics, biospecimens, scientific misconduct, legislation and policymaking related to research, and research compliance, and has published articles and commentaries on these topics in journals such as Nature, Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Milbank Quarterly, and The American Journal of Bioethics. She has served on committees, working groups and task forces of organizations including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the National Dialogue on Healthcare Innovation.
Prior to joining AAMC, Pierce was an attorney in the Health Care Group of the law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP in New York. Her regulatory practice focused on medical research and clinical care. She received her law degree from New York University School of Law and her MPH in Health Law from Boston University.
Monday, December 4, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM ET
D26 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] What's Coming Down the Line that Institutional Leadership Needs to Know?
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET