Barbara J Evans

Barbara J Evans,

Professor Of Law And Stephen C. O’Connell Chair

Department: LW-ASSOC DEAN-ACADEMIC
Business Phone: (352) 273-0915
Business Email: evans@law.ufl.edu

About Barbara J Evans

Additional Positions:
Professor of Engineering
2020 – Current · University of Florida Wertheim College of Engineering

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2020-2023
LAW5700 Torts
2021-2024
LAW6930 Selected Legal Probs
2021-2022
EGN6933 Special Topics

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0001-8115-7971

Publications

2024
Ethical, legal, and policy challenges in field-based neuroimaging research using emerging portable MRI technologies: guidance for investigators and for oversight.
Journal of law and the biosciences. 11(1) [DOI] 10.1093/jlb/lsae008. [PMID] 38855036.
2024
Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry
The American Journal of Bioethics. 24(2):69-90 [DOI] 10.1080/15265161.2023.2180109. [PMID] 37155651.
2024
The dilemma of consent for AI in healthcare
Surgery. 175(5):1456-1457 [DOI] 10.1016/j.surg.2024.01.019.
2024
To do no harm – and the most good – with AI in health care.
Nature medicine. 30(3):623-627 [DOI] 10.1038/s41591-024-02853-7. [PMID] 38388841.
2024
To Do No Harm — and the Most Good — with AI in Health Care
NEJM AI. 1(3) [DOI] 10.1056/aip2400036.
2023
Digital health and acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 27th Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup.
Nature reviews. Nephrology. 19(12):807-818 [DOI] 10.1038/s41581-023-00744-7. [PMID] 37580570.
2023
Practical considerations for reinterpretation of individual genetic variants.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 25(5) [DOI] 10.1016/j.gim.2023.100801. [PMID] 36748709.
2023
Rules for robots, and why medical AI breaks them
Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 10(1) [DOI] 10.1093/jlb/lsad001. [PMID] 36815975.
2023
The designated record set for clinical genetic and genomic testing: A points to consider statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG).
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 25(3) [DOI] 10.1016/j.gim.2022.11.010. [PMID] 36547466.
2022
Meeting the Moment: Addressing Barriers and Facilitating Clinical Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis.
NAM perspectives. 2022 [DOI] 10.31478/202209c. [PMID] 36713769.
2022
Should Alexa diagnose Alzheimer’s?: Legal and ethical issues with at-home consumer devices.
Cell reports. Medicine. 3(12) [DOI] 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100692. [PMID] 35882237.
2022
U.S. Adult Perspectives on Facial Images, DNA, and Other Biometrics
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. 3(1):9-15 [DOI] 10.1109/tts.2021.3120317. [PMID] 35360665.
2021
A survey of U.S. public perspectives on facial recognition technology and facial imaging data practices in health and research contexts.
PloS one. 16(10) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0257923. [PMID] 34648520.
2021
Concerns in the Blurred Divisions Between Medical and Consumer Neurotechnology
IEEE Systems Journal. 15(2):3069-3080 [DOI] 10.1109/jsyst.2020.3032609. [PMID] 35126800.
2021
Does the law require reinterpretation and return of revised genomic results?
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 23(5):833-836 [DOI] 10.1038/s41436-020-01065-x. [PMID] 33420344.
2020
Advancing Artificial Intelligence in Health Settings Outside the Hospital and Clinic.
NAM perspectives. 2020 [DOI] 10.31478/202011f. [PMID] 35291747.
2020
Can Clinical Genetics Laboratories be Sued for Medical Malpractice?
Annals of health law and life sciences. 29(1):153-172 [PMID] 32154515.
2020
How Can Law and Policy Advance Quality in Genomic Analysis and Interpretation for Clinical Care?
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48(1):44-68 [DOI] 10.1177/1073110520916995. [PMID] 32342785.
2020
The Perils of Parity: Should Citizen Science and Traditional Research Follow the Same Ethical and Privacy Principles?
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48(1_suppl):74-81 [DOI] 10.1177/1073110520917031. [PMID] 32342738.
2020
The potential for atmospheric water harvesting to accelerate household access to safe water.
The Lancet. Planetary health. 4(3):e91-e92 [DOI] 10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30034-6. [PMID] 32220676.
2020
The Streetlight Effect: Regulating Genomics Where the Light Is.
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48(1):105-118 [DOI] 10.1177/1073110520916998. [PMID] 32342793.
2020
Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices: Ethical Considerations and Policy Recommendations.
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48(1_suppl):196-226 [DOI] 10.1177/1073110520917047. [PMID] 32342752.
2019
A FAUSTIAN BARGAIN THAT UNDERMINES RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS’ PRIVACY RIGHTS AND RETURN OF RESULTS.
Florida law review. 71(5):1281-1345 [PMID] 34305361.
2019
Importance of Participant-Centricity and Trust for a Sustainable Medical Information Commons.
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 47(1):12-20 [DOI] 10.1177/1073110519840480. [PMID] 30994067.
2019
Improving recommendations for genomic medicine: building an evolutionary process from clinical practice advisory documents to guidelines.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 21(11):2431-2438 [DOI] 10.1038/s41436-019-0549-3. [PMID] 31160753.
2019
Parsing the Line Between Professional and Citizen Science.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 19(8):15-17 [DOI] 10.1080/15265161.2019.1619878. [PMID] 31544637.
2019
People-powered data collaboratives: fueling data science with the health-related experiences of individuals.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 26(2):159-161 [DOI] 10.1093/jamia/ocy159. [PMID] 30576557.
2019
THE GENETIC INFORMATION NONDISCRIMINATION ACT AT AGE 10: GINA’S CONTROVERSIAL ASSERTION THAT DATA TRANSPARENCY PROTECTS PRIVACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
William and Mary law review. 60(6):2017-2109 [PMID] 33953451.
2019
The law of genetic privacy: applications, implications, and limitations.
Journal of law and the biosciences. 6(1):1-36 [DOI] 10.1093/jlb/lsz007. [PMID] 31666963.
2019
Who Owns the Data in a Medical Information Commons?
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 47(1):62-69 [DOI] 10.1177/1073110519840485. [PMID] 30994077.
2018
Defending the return of results and data.
Science (New York, N.Y.). 362(6420):1255-1256 [DOI] 10.1126/science.aaw1851. [PMID] 30545879.
2018
HIPAA’s Individual Right of Access to Genomic Data: Reconciling Safety and Civil Rights.
American journal of human genetics. 102(1):5-10 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.12.004. [PMID] 29304376.
2018
Impact of HIPAA’s minimum necessary standard on genomic data sharing.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 20(5):531-535 [DOI] 10.1038/gim.2017.141. [PMID] 28914268.
2018
Response to Dreyfus and Sobel.
American journal of human genetics. 103(1):166-168 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.06.004. [PMID] 29979982.
2018
Return of results and data to study participants.
Science (New York, N.Y.). 362(6411):159-160 [DOI] 10.1126/science.aav0005. [PMID] 30309935.
2018
The Challenge of Regulating Clinical Decision Support Software After 21st Century Cures.
American journal of law & medicine. 44(2-3):237-251 [DOI] 10.1177/0098858818789418. [PMID] 30106648.
2017
Creating a data resource: what will it take to build a medical information commons?
Genome medicine. 9(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s13073-017-0476-3. [PMID] 28938910.
2017
Power to the People: Data Citizens in the Age of Precision Medicine.
Vanderbilt journal of entertainment and technology law. 19(2):243-265 [PMID] 29118898.
2016
Barbarians at the Gate: Consumer-Driven Health Data Commons and the Transformation of Citizen Science.
American journal of law & medicine. 42(4):651-685 [DOI] 10.1177/0098858817700245. [PMID] 29086656.
2015
Patients’ Choices for Return of Exome Sequencing Results to Relatives in the Event of Their Death.
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 43(3):476-85 [DOI] 10.1111/jlme.12290. [PMID] 26479557.
2015
The FDA and genomic tests–getting regulation right.
The New England journal of medicine. 372(23):2258-64 [DOI] 10.1056/NEJMsr1501194. [PMID] 26014592.
2015
The Limits of FDA’s Authority to Regulate Clinical Research Involving High-Throughput DNA Sequencing.
Food and drug law journal. 70(2):259-87, ii [PMID] 26302600.
2014
Economic regulation of next-generation sequencing.
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 42 Suppl 1(0 1):51-66 [DOI] 10.1111/jlme.12162. [PMID] 25298291.
2014
Mining the human genome after Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 16(7):504-9 [DOI] 10.1038/gim.2013.186. [PMID] 24357850.
2014
Regulatory changes raise troubling questions for genomic testing.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 16(11):799-803 [DOI] 10.1038/gim.2014.127. [PMID] 25255365.
2014
Return of genomic results to research participants: the floor, the ceiling, and the choices in between.
American journal of human genetics. 94(6):818-26 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.04.009. [PMID] 24814192.
2014
Return of results: ethical and legal distinctions between research and clinical care.
American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics. 166C(1):105-11 [DOI] 10.1002/ajmg.c.31393. [PMID] 24616381.
2014
Sustainable access to data for postmarketing medical product safety surveillance under the amended HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Health matrix (Cleveland, Ohio : 1991). 24:11-47 [PMID] 25112134.
2014
The First Amendment Right to Speak About the Human Genome.
University of Pennsylvania journal of constitutional law. 16(3):549-636 [PMID] 25473380.
2013
Minimizing liability risks under the ACMG recommendations for reporting incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 15(12):915-20 [DOI] 10.1038/gim.2013.135. [PMID] 24030435.
2012
A policy framework for public health uses of electronic health data.
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety. 21 Suppl 1:18-22 [DOI] 10.1002/pds.2319. [PMID] 22262589.
2012
Commentary on community-led total sanitation and human rights: should the right to community-wide health be won at the cost of individual rights?
Journal of water and health. 10(4):499-503 [DOI] 10.2166/wh.2012.205. [PMID] 23165706.
2012
The ethics of postmarketing observational studies of drug safety under section 505(o)(3) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
American journal of law & medicine. 38(4):577-606 [PMID] 23356097.
2012
Would patient ownership of health data improve confidentiality?
The virtual mentor : VM. 14(9):724-32 [DOI] 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.9.pfor1-1209. [PMID] 23351352.
2010
Authority of the Food and Drug Administration to require data access and control use rights in the Sentinel data network.
Food and drug law journal. 65(1):67-112, ii [PMID] 24475535.
2010
Establishing clinical utility of pharmacogenetic tests in the post-FDAAA era.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. 88(6):749-51 [DOI] 10.1038/clpt.2010.237. [PMID] 21081943.
2010
Science and regulation. Regulating direct-to-consumer personal genome testing.
Science (New York, N.Y.). 330(6001):181-2 [DOI] 10.1126/science.1194006. [PMID] 20929761.
2009
Glaucoma detection: the content of optometric eye examinations for a presbyopic patient of African racial descent.
The British journal of ophthalmology. 93(4):492-6 [DOI] 10.1136/bjo.2008.145623. [PMID] 19060011.
2009
Increased activity of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in serum from acutely infected dengue patients linked to gamma interferon antiviral function.
The Journal of general virology. 90(Pt 4):810-817 [DOI] 10.1099/vir.0.004416-0. [PMID] 19264674.
2007
Finding a liability-free space in which personalized medicine can bloom.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. 82(4):461-5 [PMID] 17713468.
2006
Encouraging translational research through harmonization of FDA and common rule informed consent requirements for research with banked specimens.
The Journal of legal medicine. 27(2):119-66 [PMID] 16728351.
2006
The unfinished business of U.S. drug safety regulation.
Food and drug law journal. 61(1):45-63 [PMID] 16838457.
2006
What will it take to reap the clinical benefits of pharmacogenomics?
Food and drug law journal. 61(4):753-94 [PMID] 17180771.
2004
Creating incentives for genomic research to improve targeting of therapies.
Nature medicine. 10(12):1289-91 [PMID] 15580246.
2004
Inconsistent regulatory protection under the U.S. Common Rule.
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees. 13(4):366-79 [PMID] 15552328.
2003
Type 2 diabetes mellitus in youth.
The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses. 19(4):195-203 [PMID] 12882602.
2002
Type 2 diabetes mellitus in adolescents.
Adolescent medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.). 13(1):1-12, v [PMID] 11841952.
2002
Type 2 diabetes mellitus: issues for the medical care of pediatric and adult patients.
Southern medical journal. 95(9):992-1000 [PMID] 12356140.

Grants

Sep 2024 ACTIVE
Artificial Intelligence Passport for Biomedical Research (AIPassportBMR ): Digital Experiential Learning Community for Upskilling in Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical, Behavioral and Clinical Research
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIGMS
Sep 2022 ACTIVE
Patient-Focused Collaborative Hospital Repository Uniting Standards (CHoRUS) for Equitable AI
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL via NATL INST OF HLTH OD

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-0915
Emails:
Business:
evans@law.ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 117620
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Business Street:
309 VILLAGE DR
GAINESVILLE FL 32611