Marsha Michie PhD

Marsha Michie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Prior to joining CWRU, Dr. Michie was an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, where she held appointments in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, and was a collaborator in UCSF Bioethics and the UC Bioethics Collaboratory. Dr. Michie received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She also completed postdoctoral training at the UNC Center for Genomics and Society, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Dr. Michie’s work employs empirical research to investigate ethical questions in biomedicine. Her scholarly work focuses on the experiences of people who are stakeholders in biomedical research, the innovations it produces, and the ways these are translated into clinical care. She has conducted research with genomic research participants, people who have refused research participation, families seeking or dealing with genetic diagnoses, and various stakeholders in new technologies for prenatal testing—including clinicians, test developers, pregnant women, and disability advocates. Her work is informed by bioethical principles, social theory, and literature on identity, practice, narrative, and disability. She has also taught and mentored students, postdocs, and other trainees in topics related to bioethics, qualitative social science, and the responsible conduct of research.