Cassie Houtz, PhD (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral fellow of Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics in the Perelman School of Medicine’s Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy. Her interests lie in disability bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and the “quality of life.” As a postdoctoral fellow, she is working on two primary research areas: (1) ethical and social issues related to obesity genetics research, testing, and treatment and (2) ethical dilemmas in rare pediatric genetic diseases, especially leukodystrophies. She received her PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University, where she studied the intersections of philosophical, religious, and biomedical conceptions of what it means to live a “good life.”
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