I am an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, a lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, and member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She received her MD degree from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany and teaches anatomy and history of anatomy at Harvard Medical School and Harvard College. Her research interests are the history and ethics of anatomy, and specifically the history of anatomy in National Socialist Germany. Her educational approach integrates anatomy, medical history and medical ethics.
Her book The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich, Berghahn Books 2016, is the first systematic study of anatomy during National Socialism. The biography of Jewish physician refugee Käthe Beutler was published by Hentrich& Hentrich in 2019. She is also co-editor of Recognizing the Past in the Present: Medicine before, during and after the Holocaust, Berghahn Books 2021. She is currently researching the history of the Anatomical Institute as a member of the Historical Commission on the Reichsuniversität Strassburg 1941-44 and serves as co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Medicine and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow.