Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Ph.D., M.A. is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Blumenthal-Barby is a philosopher bioethicist whose research focuses primarily on decision-making and ethics.

Dr. Blumenthal-Barby has been the recipient of a Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics, a Pfizer Bioethics Fellowship, and has served as the Principal Investigator on four awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study and improve decision making in advanced heart failure. Recently, she received funding as a Co-Principal Investigator to study ethics and decision making in pediatric deep brain stimulation through the NIH BRAIN initiative. She has also received funding as Principal Investigator from AHRQ to study the utilization of an AI/machine learning system that predicts personalized risks using big data. She has published more than 100 articles in bioethics, philosophy, and medical journals as well as served on several expert panels and committees related to bioethics and medical decision making. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Medical Ethics and is on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities as well as the Editorial Board for The American Journal of Bioethics. She has a new book out with MIT Press: Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics.