Rebecca D. Pentz, PhD
AAME Board of Reference

Becky Pentz is Professor of Hematology and Oncology in Research Ethics at Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She does empirical ethics research on such issues as informed consent, phase 1 research (first use of a drug in humans) and genetic confidentiality, as well as helping researchers with their protocols to make them ethically sound. In 2000, she moved to Atlanta from Houston where she was the Clinical Ethicist at MD Anderson Cancer Center. As Clinical Ethicist she worked closely with patients and families, offering help for those struggling with end of life issues.

Pentz has several national commitments. She is on the St. Jude Data Monitoring Committee. She is also on the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s and the Children’s Oncology Group’s ethics committees. She sits on two Centers for Disease Control IRBs, including the one that reviews bioterrorism research. Her greatest joy is when one of these national meetings is held in the same town as one of her out-of-town daughters, Amy at Stanford University and Jessica at the University of San Francisco Medical School. The oldest daughter, Sarah, is home attending a joint law and theology program at Emory. With a 26 year old at home, Becky now has added watching the Bachelor and lifting weights to music in Body Pump to her weekly schedule.

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