PERSON: Ellen Clayton

Vanderbilt University

Professor

Ellen Wright Clayton is an American academic specializing in law and medicine. She is the Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics at Vanderbilt University and chairwoman of the Institute of Medicine Board at the Population Health and Public Health Practice. She was the 2013 recipient of the David Rall Medal.

Wright Clayton was born in Houston, Texas, where she attended school. She graduated from Duke with a degree in zoology and then obtained master’s degree in biochemistry from Stanford University. Some years later she got her degree in law from Yale, and medical degree from Harvard respectively.

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