Carol Weil, J.D.

Program Director, Ethical and Regulatory Affairs

Ms. Weil came to the NCI in July 2010. She obtained her law degree from UC Berkeley which was followed by a fellowship in medical ethics. Ms. Weil has served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since 1987, first with the Inspector General’s Office, where she prosecuted Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse cases, and from 1999 to 2010 with the Office for Human Research Protections in the Office of Public Health and Science (formerly, the Office for Protection from Research Risks at NIH), where she handled compliance cases and developed policies and educational guidance for institutional review boards and clinical investigators. At the NCI Ms. Weil is focused on the ELSI (ethical, legal and social) implications of human research, including promoting diversity and inclusion in clinical trials, community engagement strategies, informed consent challenges, returning research results and incidental findings, biorepository governance, and data privacy issues.