Leadership & Organization

Mildred Cho, Ph.D. is Co-Principal Investigator of CERA and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics and in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Cho's major areas of interest are the ethical and social impacts of genetic research and data science and their applications, including to precision medicine, gene therapy, the human microbiome, and synthetic biology.

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D. is Co-Principal Investigator of CERA and Chief of the Division of Ethics and Professor of Medical Humanities & Ethics at Columbia University. As a medical anthropologist, she leads multidisciplinary studies of the sociocultural dimensions and ethical issues in genomics, precision medicine, artificial intelligence. Her work focuses on epistemic justice and equity in the biosciences, including ontologies of racial categorization, the role of institutions in research partnerships with communities, and team collaboration in translational research. Dr. Lee is past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors and serves on the US Secretary Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.

Deanne Dunbar Dolan, Ph.D. is a Research Scholar at Stanford Medicine. She completed master’s degrees in history of medicine and anthropology and a doctorate in anthropology at Emory University. At CERA, Deanne co-directs operations, co-leads the curation and synthesis and web development teams, manages CERA partnerships with academic journals, and the is the general editor of ELSIhub Collections.

Emily Van Poetsch, B.S. is the ELSI Research Program Manager of CERA at Stanford University. With a degree in biology and experience as a phlebotomist, her interest in public health and equality took off. She began working in higher education in 2015 and has since been managing interdisciplinary programs including the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University, and now, the Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis.

Rachel Lee, B.S. is a Social Science Research Professional at Stanford University. Before joining CERA, Rachel worked on curriculum development and qualitative research about patient experiences and diversity, equity, and inclusion in health care. Her interests include the ethical and social implications of prenatal screening, reproductive technologies, and direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

David J. Lamb is the Communications Manager in the Division of Ethics at Columbia University. David has prior experience in communications in both academic and publishing settings, including the research publisher Springer Nature. David holds a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an M.Sc. in Psychoanalytic Theory from University College London. David is interested in how academic knowledge is disseminated and interacts with the culture at large.