Quinn Waeiss
Assistant Professor in Medical History and Bioethics
1300 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Biography
Quinn Waeiss is a Principal Investigator of Bioethics at the Morgridge Institute for Research and an Assistant Professor in Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their research focuses on the intersection of social responsibility, science and technology development, and healthcare. They are particularly interested in the ethics of AI in healthcare, research ethics and regulation, and processes that advance the social responsibility of scientists.
Interests
Research ethics, governance of AI, public engagement in science, technology implementation in healthcare
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Postdoctoral Scholar, 2023-26, The Laurie J. Girand Center for Bioethics at Stanford
Ph.D., Political Science, 2019, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Political Science, German, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Recent Publications
Waeiss, Quinn and Mildred Cho. 2026. “An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI.” Policy Studies 47(2): 359-372.
Waeiss, Quinn, Margaret Levi, Leif Wenar, David Magnus. 2025. “Looking beyond the IRB.” American Journal of Bioethics 25(2): 3-5.
Trotsyuk, Artem+, Quinn Waeiss+, Raina Talwar Bhatia, Brandon J. Aponte, Isabella M.L. Heffernan, Devika Madgavkar, Ryan M. Felder, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, Megan J. Palmer, Hank Greely, Russell Wald, Lea Goetz, Markus Trengove, Robert Vandersluis, Herbert Lin, Mildred K. Cho, Russ B. Altman, Drew Endy, David A. Relman, Margaret Levi, Debra Satz, David Magnus. 2024.
“Toward a Framework for Risk Mitigation of Potential Misuse of AI in Biomedical Research.” Nature Machine Intelligence 6: 1435-1442
Levi, Margaret, Michael Bernstein, Quinn Waeiss. 2022. “Broadening the Ethical Scope.” American Journal of Bioethics 22(5): 26-28.
Bernstein, Michael S.+, Margaret Levi, David Magnus, Betsy A. Rajala+, Debra Satz, and Quinn Waeiss+. 2021. “Ethics and society review: Ethics reflection as a precondition to research funding.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(52): e2117261118.