Heather M. Butts is a lecturer and faculty advisor of part-time students in the Department of Health Policy Management at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She teaches bioethics, human resources strategic management, integration of science and practice, and leadership skills. In addition, she serves as adjunct professor in health law and bioethics at St. John’s School of Law.

 

Prior to her teaching, she served as a regulatory specialist at Columbia University’s Medical Center Institutional Review Board. Her responsibilities included training and educational efforts of the Columbia University research community. She has also functioned as a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in New York, where she performed compliance risk assessments on projects involving reviews of faculty group practices, policies and procedures.

 

Professor Butts is the co-founder or H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, Inc. a nonprofit organization that focuses on college readiness and preparation. Her organization partners with 25 programs each year to help more than 1,000 students achieve their dream of going to college.

 

Her publications include: “Alexander Thomas Augusta: Physician, Teacher and Human Rights Activist,” for the Journal of the National Medical Association; “Federal Agencies Continue Focus on Clinical Trial Oversight” (co-author); “Housing Bias and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder” (co-author); and the book African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era.

 

Professor Butts received her bachelor of arts from Princeton University. She was a history major, concentrating in American and African American Studies. She received her juris doctor from St. John’s University School of Law, her master of public health from Harvard University and her master of education from Teachers College, Columbia University.