Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Ph.D., M.A. is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Blumenthal-Barby is a philosopher bioethicist whose research focuses primarily on decision-making and ethics.

Dr. Blumenthal-Barby has been the recipient of a Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics, a Pfizer Bioethics Fellowship, and has served as the Principal Investigator on four awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study and improve decision making in advanced heart failure, one award from AHRQ to study the utilization of an AI algorithm that predicted risk and survival in patients considering LVAD therapy, and two R01s from the NIH Brain Initiative to study neural device ethics and decision making. She has published more than 150 articles in bioethics, philosophy, and medical journals as well as served on several expert panels and committees related to bioethics and medical decision making. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Medical Ethics and The American Journal of Bioethics where she also serves on the Editorial Board. Dr. Blumenthal-Barby served as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). She has a book out with MIT Press: Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics. In 2023 she was elected a Hastings Center Fellow.