Sara Gerke

Professor of Law

Website / gerke@illinois.edu

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Sara Gerke is a Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar at the University of Illinois College of Law. She is also a Professor at the European Union Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current research focuses on the ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and big data for health care and health law in the United States and Europe. Professor Gerke has led several externally funded research projects, including projects supported by the NIH and the European Union (Horizon Europe). She has over 100 publications in health law and bioethics, with a particular focus on AI and digital health. Her work has appeared in leading law, medical, scientific, and bioethics journals, including The George Washington Law Review, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Science, Nature Medicine, BMJ, The American Journal of Bioethics, and the Hastings Center Report. Her work has been covered by media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Times, Forbes, Scientific American, Bloomberg Law, CBC, USA Today, and others.