Sheila Cohen Zimmet, BSN, JD, is the Senior Associate Vice President for Regulatory Affairs at Georgetown University Medical Center, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, a Faculty Associate in the Georgetown University Center for Clinical Bioethics, and a member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council of the National Institutes of Health. She holds a BS in nursing degree from Georgetown University School of Nursing and a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.