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Edye Edens, J.D., M.A., CIP, ’08, has joined the Hall Center for Law and Health at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law as Externship Program Director.

In her new role, Edens will strengthen existing partnerships and work to provide new opportunities for students.

“I am very excited to help IU McKinney law students find meaningful externships through the Hall Center and its many connections to the legal community, as well as the life sciences and health care industries in central Indiana,” Edens said. “I am especially looking forward to working with other McKinney alumni, who are some of our most valuable partners in this effort.”

Edens also teaches Life Sciences Compliance Law as Biomedical and Health Industry adjunct professor at the IU McKinney School of Law and IU Fairbanks School of Public Health. She aided in the creation and introduction of a new health care compliance curriculum within McKinney beginning in 2011.

Since 2017, she has worked for First Class Solutions as a Senior Research Compliance Consultant. She previously served as the Quality & Compliance Manager, within the Clinical Trials Office at the IU Simon Cancer Center. Prior to that position, Edens focused on the role of human rights in health, working at the Human Subject Offices on both the IU Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses, the Indianapolis Grant Services office, Clinical Research Compliance Office, and the Research Integrity Office, aiding in quality assurance and compliance matters including managing accreditations, internal auditing, education and managing consultation projects involving outside entities.  She also served as program manager for a National Institute of Health grant to aid in creating a joint international institutional review board in conjunction with IU’s existing Moi University medical school partnership in Kenya and the IU Center for Bioethics.

Edens completed her Masters of Arts in Philosophy with a concentration in International Research Ethics in 2012 from the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. She has a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University.

“Edye is a wonderful example of how externships affect the entire fabric of the legal community,” said Cynthia Baker, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Experiential Learning and Director of the Program on Law and State Government at IU McKinney.

“She completed at least one health care externship as a McKinney law student and worked with our students as their supervising lawyer for a variety of health care related externships. Now, in addition to teaching the Biomedical Industry course, she is advising our health care externships, including teaching a new health care externship course,” Professor Baker said. “Edye has the perfect background for helping our students contextualize both professionalism and reflection as important aspects of the practice of health care law.”