Mary A. Ott, MD

Meet Mary Ott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7PI1P5IlU

Dr. Mary A. Ott MD MA is a Professor of Pediatrics in the IU School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at IUPUI.  Her areas of expertise are adolescent pregnancy and HIV prevention, pediatric research ethics, and adolescent consent and confidentiality.  Her research includes implementation sciences approaches to community-based adolescent pregnancy prevention, adolescent contraceptive access, research ethics with vulnerable populations, and global adolescent health.  Her work is funded by the NIH, the Society for Family Planning Research, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  She is currently a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders.

Dr. Ott is board certified in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.  She is the fellowship director for Adolescent Medicine, and provides adolescent health care at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health.  Dr. Ott sits on the Adolescent Subboard for the American Board of Pediatrics and the PROS steering committee for the American Board of Pediatrics. She is on the editorial boards for Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Journal of Pediatrics, and consults on adolescent health policies and programs locally, nationally, and internationally.

1. Mcgregor KA, Ott MA (2019). Banking the Future: Adolescent Capacity to Consent to Biobank Research. IRB: Ethics & Human Research 41(4):15-32. PMID 31336038.
2. Katz AJ, Hensel DJ, Hunt AL, Zaban LS, Hensley MM, Ott MA (2019). Only Yes Means Yes: Sexual Coercion in Rural Adolescent Relationships. J Adolesc Health 65(3):423-425. PMID 31227387.
3. Hopkins KA, Ott MA, Salih Z, Bosslet GT, Lantos J (2019). Ethics Rounds: When Adolescent and Parents Disagree on Medical Plan, Who Gets to Decide? Pediatrics, 144(2): e20190291. PMID 31266823.
4. Hartsock JA, Schwartz PH, Waltz AC, Ott MA (2019). Anticipatory Waivers of Consent for Pediatric Biobanking. IRB: Ethics & Human Research 41(2):14-21. PMID 30895753.
5. Ott MA, Crawley FP, Sáez-Llorens X, Owusu-Agyei S, Neubauer D, Dubin G, Poplazarova T, Begg N, Rosenthal SL. (2018). Ethical Considerations for the Participation of Children of Minor Parents in Clinical Trials, Pediatr Drugs Jun;20(3):215-222. PMID 29476333, PMC5954045.
6. Ott MA, Campbell J, Imburgia TM, Yang Z, Tu W, Auerswald CL, (2018). Community Engagement and Venue-Based Sampling in Adolescent Male Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Research. J Adolesc Health. 62(3): S58-64. PMID: 29455719.
7. Price LA, Cao LS, Ott MA (2018). Factors Influencing Pediatric Resident Exposure to Adolescents in their Continuity Clinic. J Pediatr, 197:297-299. PMID:29515072.
8. Knopf AS, Gilbert AL, Zimet GD, Kapogiannis BG, Hosek SG, Fortenberry JD, Ott MA and the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (2017). Moral conflict and competing duties in the initiation of a biomedical HIV prevention trial with minor adolescents. AJOB Empir Bioeth;8(3):145-152. PMID: 28949893; PMCID: PMC5618718.
9. Bell DL, Rosenberger JG, Ott MA (2015). Masculinity in Adolescent Males’ Early Romantic and Sexual Heterosexual Relationships.  American Journal of Men's Health. 9(3):201-208. PMID: 24899515.
10. Nelson LR, Stupianski NW, Ott MA (2016). The influence of age, health literacy and affluence on adolescents' capacity to consent to research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 11(2):115-21.  PMID: 27009303.