INPCS Leadership: Amber Comer

Amber Comer, PhD, JD
Member At-Large, INPCS Board of Directors

Amber Comer, PhD, JD is an Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Medicine who holds faculty appointments in the School of Health and Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences and the School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Comer is an affiliate faculty in the School of Medicine, Center for Bioethics, the RESPECT Center, and the Regenstrief Institute. Dr. Comer also holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the McKinney School of Law. She is also the Director of Ethics Policy and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association.

Dr. Comer holds a PhD from the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health with a minor in Bioethics, a JD from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law with a concentration in Health Law, and she completed a Medical Ethics Fellowship at the Indiana University Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. Dr. Comer is also a member of the Indiana State Bar. 

Dr. Comer is a palliative care researcher and bioethicist who is an expert in medical decision making for hospitalized patients with critical illness. Dr. Comer's sub focus is neuropalliative care. Dr. Comer's research goal is to reduce suffering at the end of life by improving the quality of medical decision making. Her work has been nationally recognized and has been cited in clinical practice guidelines and played a role in changing Indiana's Health Care Consent Law.