Kathi E. Hanna, M.S., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Section Head,
Scientific Reports and Proceedings
Styllus, LLC
Dr. Hanna has over 25 years of experience in science and health policy as an analyst, writer, and editor specializing in biomedical research policy and bioethics. She served as Research Director and Editorial Consultant to President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) and directed the completion of NBAC’s reports, including Research Involving Human Biological Materials: Ethical Issues and Policy Guidance. In the mid 1990s Dr. Hanna was Senior Advisor on Reproductive Health to the Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses.
More recently, she served as the lead author and editor of President Bush's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans. She is the lead author and editor of a forthcoming Department of Energy manual on human subject protections. In the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Hanna was a Senior Analyst at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, contributing to numerous science policy studies requested by congressional committees on science education, research funding, biotechnology, women's health, human genetics, bioethics, and reproductive technologies.
In the past two decades she has served as an analyst and editorial consultant to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Academies, the U.S. Office for Human Research Protections, several charitable foundations, voluntary health organizations, and biotechnology companies. Before moving to the Washington, D.C., area, where she is currently located, she was the Genetics Coordinator at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where she directed clinical counseling and coordinated an international research program in prenatal diagnosis. Dr. Hanna received an A.B. in Biology from Lafayette College, an M.S. in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College, and a doctorate from George Washington University. She is currently Senior Vice President and Section Head for Science, at Styllus, LLC, a medical and scientific writing company based in the Boston and Washington, D.C., areas.
