Laura Weiss Roberts (born 1960) is an American psychiatrist and

bioethicist Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethics, ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biolo ...

who is the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor and chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at

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. She is the editor-in-chief of ''Academic Medicine''.

Life

Roberts earned a B.A. (1982) in social studies of science and medicine and M.A. (1983) in philosophy from the

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. She completed a M.D. (1988) and a fellowship in clinical medical ethics (1989) at the

Pritzker School of Medicine The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is the M.D.-granting unit under the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago. It is located on the university's main campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago and mat ...

. At the

University of New Mexico School of Medicine The University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNM School of Medicine) is a division of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The UNM School of Medicine is home to a variety of degree-g ...

, she conducted a psychiatric residency in 1993 followed by a fellowship in 1994. Roberts was a faculty member at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine for nine years. She specialized in ethics research and psychiatry. She was a professor and vice chair of her department. She founded the institute for ethics and was named the Jack and Donna Rust Professor of Biomedical Ethics. In 2003, she joined the

Medical College of Wisconsin The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is a private medical school, pharmacy school, and graduate school of sciences in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The school was established in 1893 and is the largest research center in eastern Wisconsi ...

, working there for seven years. From 2002 to 2019, she was the editor-in-chief of '' Academic Psychiatry''. She was chair of the department of psychiatry and the Charles E. Kubly Professor of Psychiatry and Behavior Medicine. In 2010, Roberts joined

as the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor and chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. She is concurrently chief of the psychiatry service at

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. She has served as the editor-in-chief of ''Academic Medicine'' since 2019.

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