Ellen Wright Clayton is an American academic specialzing in law and medicine.
[4] From 1988, Wright Clayton served as Vanderbilt University faculty member and since that time has published two books and over 150 peer-reviewed articles relating to law, medicine and public health.
She serves on the advisory board panel of both the National Institutes of Health and Human Genome Organisation.
In 2012, she began her three-year term as the Bachelor of Philosophy chairwoman at Vanderbilt University.
[5] Currently she teaches in both medical and law schools and is a director of Vanderbilt's Center for Genetics and Health Policy.