Members of the ELSI Scholar Directory are scholars and trainees with an interest in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics. You may contact members to organize collaborative projects or working groups, share speaking opportunities, solicit expert commentary, obtain advice on policy or legislation, network, and arrange mentor/mentee relationships.
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Clement A. Adebamowo, Sc.D., B.M., Ch.B. Honors
Associate Director, (Population Science), and Director For Global Health Cancer Research/Research Scientist
Institution: University of Maryland School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Research, Nigeria
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Cancer
- Genomics
- Research Ethics

Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and Director, Center for Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia
Institution: Columbia University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI of neuropsychiatric genetics
- Return of genetic results
- Ethics of precision medicine
- Ethics of variant reinterpretation
- Consent for genetic testing

Jalayne J. Arias, JD, MA
Associate Professor
Institution: Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Anti-Discrimination
- Neuroscience
- Alzheimer's disease related dementia
- Aging
- Public Health

Alison Bateman-House, PhD, MPH, MA
Assistant Profesor of Medical Ethics
Institution: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- gene therapy
- Bioethics
- Research Ethics
- Clinical Trials
- Pharmaceutical ethics

Laura M. Beskow, M.P.H, Ph.D.
Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics, Professor of Health Policy
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human Research Protections
- Informed Consent
- Research Recruitment
- Biobanking
- Pragmatic Trials

Deborah J. Bowen, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington
Institution: University of Washington
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Behavioral Science

Erin E. Burke, PhD
Associate Director
Institution: Variant Bio, Inc.
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Biological Anthropology
- benefit sharing
- ethical engagement
- Reproduction / Reproductive Technologies

Subhashini Chandrasekharan, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Institution: NIH
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Research Ethics
- precision medicine
- Digital health
- Intellectual Property

Carolyn Riley Chapman, Ph.D., M.S.
Faculty Affiliate
Institution: Division of Medical Ethics NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- bioethics

Mildred K. Cho, Ph.D.
SCBE Associate Director, Professor (Research) of Medicine and Pediatrics
Institution: Stanford University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI
- Research Ethics
- Health Policy