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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Bryan Cwik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and University Studies, Portland State University
Institution: Portland State University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Emerging medical technologies
- Genetics
- Clinical research ethics

Maya H. Doyle, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
Institution: Quinnpiac University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Social Work
- Rare Diseases
- children and adolescent/pediatrics
- burden of illness

Ilaria Galasso
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: University College Dublin
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Science and technology studies
- Health Equity
- precision medicine
- Philosophy
- patient engagement

Jeremy R. Garrett, Ph.D.
Research Associate in Bioethics; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Institution: Children's Mercy Kansas City
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Pediatric bioethics
- Right to an Open Future
- Return of Results
- Duty to Rescue
- Genetic Exceptionalism

Eric T. Juengst, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Medicine; Director, Center for Bioethics
Institution: School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human gene editing
- Population genomics
- Concepts of genetic disease
- Concepts of prevention
- Eugenics

Jeffrey Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director
Institution: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- genetic technologies
- Public Health
- Research Ethics

Polaris Koi
Researcher
Institution: University of Turku
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Mental disorders
- Behavioral Genetics
- Philosophy of Medicine
- Philosophical Ethics

Meghan Kosowski, BA, Ethics
Graduate Student, Bioethics
Institution: University of Louisville
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Ethics
Lucas J. Matthews, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research
Institution: Columbia University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Behavioral Genetics
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Bioethics
- Behavioral and Social Science

Karen M. Meagher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Ethical and organizational issues in biobanking
- Public health pathogen genomics
- precision public health
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Community Engagement