Ms. Kutkat serves as a Health Science Policy Analyst in the Office of Science Policy and Planning, an office within the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health. In this role she focuses on policy issues concerning research ethics as they pertain to human subjects. Ms. Kutkat has been engaged in helping the health research community understand the Privacy Rule and Federal standards developed to satisfy the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. She received her M.S. degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and is also satisfying requirements for an M.P.H. degree in administrative medicine policy from George Washington University.

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