Linda MacDonald Glenn

Who is Linda MacDonald Glenn?

Linda MacDonald Glenn is an American bioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant, and attorney-at-law. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging and exponential technologies and "evolving notions of personhood".

She holds faculty appointments at California State University Monterey Bay, and the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center,. She has also taught at the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the University of Sciences in Philadelphia, Department of Biomedical Writing. She is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a Women's Bioethics Project Women's Bioethics Project Scholar. In addition, she completed a fellowship at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association.

Prior to returning to an academic setting, Glenn consulted and practiced as a trial attorney with an emphasis in patient advocacy, bioethical and biotechnology issues, end of life decision-making, reproductive rights, genetics, neuroethics, parental/biological issues, and animal rights.