Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD

Dr. Maya Sabatello is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences at the Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics, Department of Medicine, and Division of Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, at Columbia University, where she also co-directs the Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture Project. She is a former litigator with trans-disciplinary background and has extensive experience in national and international policymaking relating to human and disability rights.

Dr. Sabatello explores the ethical, social and policy issues relating to biomedical technologies, genomic information and Big Data and the impacts thereof on social structures, marginalized communities, individual rights, and health outcomes. Her NIH-funded mixed-methods and community-based participatory research program focuses on the ramifications of genetic data in non-clinical settings (e.g., schools) for social justice; the psychosocial impact of genomic data and return of genetic results on adolescents and families; issues of trust and inclusion of people with disabilities in precision medicine research; and disability and intersectional biases in AI/ML training datasets. Dr. Sabatello serves as a member of the ASHG’s Professional Practice & Social Implications Committee and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of NIH’s All of Us Research Program. She was the co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and she Co-chairs NHGRI’s Community Engagement in Genomics Working Group (CEGWG).

Selected Publications