Gail Van NormanGail A. Van Norman is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is an academic clinician/ethicist who has spent over 35 years in clinical practice and published a numberof articles regarding the ethics and background of animal research as well as regulatory issues in pharmaceutical research and the failure of animal studies to provide effective scientific translation to human medicine. Her reviews of animal and nonanimal research published in JACC Basic to Translational Science have been among the most highly read, downloaded, and cited articles throughout the journal's history. She has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings regarding the issues of animal research and translational science failures. Read More Read Less