ibhf fellows

Michele Mekel, J.D., M.H.A., M.B.A.
Fellow

Michele Mekel is executive director and fellow of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, and associate director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society at Chicago-Kent College of Law within Illinois Institute of Technology. Previously, she was a visiting Fulbright fellow at Queen's University Centre for Health Services and Policy Research in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where she conducted a comparative study of Canadian and U.S. academic-affiliated health policy research centers. As an attorney licensed in Illinois and Missouri, Mekel served as a law clerk for the Missouri Supreme Court. In addition, her experience in health care administration includes work as the compliance officer and corporate planner for a regional health maintenance organization, and a director of the Missouri Hospital Association. Her academic portfolio contains a number of legal and health-related publications and presentations, and she is presently working on various writing projects related human "enhancement" and the law, and nanotechnology governance. She also serves on the board of the Converging Technologies Bar Association and as an associate editor for Nanotechnology Law & Business.

She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she earned her: juris doctor (graduating order of the coif), master's of health administration, master's of business administration, and bachelor's of journalism (graduating magna cum laude). During law school, Mekel served as editor-in-chief of the Missouri Law Review.