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48 J.L. Med. & Ethics 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/medeth48 and id is 1 raw text is: LETTER FROM THE EDITOR EDITORIAL STAFF he American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics takes great pride in the loyalty and friendship of our many members and ED I OR-i N-CH 5. readers. We view our members and readers collectively as a Aaron SKeselhei, family, and above all else we work every day to earn your loyalty and Aaron S. Kesselheim, MI.U., J.D., trust. Our society would not exist without all of you. Part of that work MI.P.I. is done by making certain that our loyal friends receive good value for the hard-earned money you all invest in us. With regards to the E DI T Journal ofLaw, Medicine & Ethics, that means ensuring each issue Edward J. Hutchinson is packed with the best, most thoughtful, and most current work we can share with all of you. We are reasonably confident that we have provided you with good ASSISTA N DITORvalue in our most recent issues of JLME. In our winter volume we Margo G. Smith actually presented three separate symposiums, two in our regular issue and one in a standalone supplement. With this, our spring volume, and our first publication of the 2020s, we bring you two THE AM RIC A N SOCIETY OF more collections, both edited by longtime friends of the Society. The LAW. M E D IC E & ETHICS first, LawSeq: Building a Sound Legal Foundation for Translating Genomics into Clinical Application, is the outgrowth of tremendous work done at the University of Minnesota and is guest-edited by iE Ia V DIRc TnsoRf Susan M. Wolf, Ellen Wright Clayton, and Frances Lawrenz. Susan, who has edited many issue of JLME for us, writes in her introduc- tion that The goal of this Symposium is to analyze how law supports CON I RE N C i & M E; B E RSHI P and impedes genomics implementation and to recommend changes D I RTO to advance successful integration of genomics into clinical care:' Our Katie Kenney Johnson second symposium also considers how law interacts with technology, as JLME stalwart Mark Rothstein presents Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices:' Mark writes that both regulated Founding Edito r and unregulated researchers increasingly have utilized smartphones, GUeorge J. Annas, .J.D., M .P.HI. tablets, and other mobile devices in recruitment, enrollment, data gathering and analysis, and dissemination of research findings. Mobile devices and their software applications facilitate the enroll- ment of large cohorts and enable participants to record a range of biometric and other measures. Both research platforms and health apps can play an important role in ensuring the scientific accuracy he Jorafed d hiied W Etisof the research and safeguarding the wellbeing of research partici- the American Societ of Law. pants. We investigated how the interests of participants, researchers, Medicine & Ethic, Inc. and the public can be addressed in an unregulated environment. The viewcs and opinions expressed in the Jornalare those of the authors Together we hope these fascinating collections, along with our usual and do not necesarily represent independent articles and columns, will provide you with enough the views or opinions of the puhlisher reading to get you to our summer issue, which we are ever-hopefully reminded is right around the corner. In the meantime, thank you as always for your support of the work of ASLME. Ted Hutchinson Editor JLME BUILDING A SOUND LEGAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSLATING GENOMICS INTO CLINICAL APPLICATION * SPRING 2020 1 The Journal ofLaw, Medicine & Ethics, 48 (2020): 1-2. © 2020 The Author(s) DOI: 10.1177/1073110520917521

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