Lauren Sankary, JD, MA, HEC-C is an Assistant Professor in the UT Southwestern Department of Neurological Surgery and the O'Donnell Brain Institute and a Clinical Ethicist at Clements University Hospital. Professor Sankary conducts empirical investigations in clinical and translational research ethics with a track record of NIH and foundation funding. Her research applies legal, qualitative, and empirical bioethics research methods to investigate ethical issues in clinical research involving vulnerable patient populations, drawing upon her direct experience supporting informed consent as a clinical ethicist and research consent monitor for participants enrolling in innovative neurological research.