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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Felicity K. Boardman, PhD
Professor of Social Science in Medicine & Genomics
Institution: University of Warwick
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- expanded carrier screening
- social stigma
- disability
- Personal Identity
- selective termination

Raymond G. De Vries, Ph.D.
Associate Director at the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan and is a Professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Institution: University of Michigan
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Sociology of ELSI
- Deliberative methods
- Public attitudes re: genomic science and policy
- Research integrity

Joan H. Fujimura, M.A., Ph.D.
Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Race and genomics
- Epidemiological genetics
- GWAS
- precision medicine
- Sociogenomics

Gail E. Henderson, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine and adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Decision-making processes for early phase clinical research participants
- Genomic screening for healthy populations
- Ethical and organizational issues in biobanking

Stephen Hilgartner, Ph.D.
Professor of Science & Technology Studies
Institution: Cornell University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Social studies of science & technology
- Politics of science
- Genomics & society

Daphne O. Martschenko, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institution: Stanford University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Sociogenomics
- Behavioral Genetics
- Adversarial Collaboration

Richard Milne, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science and the Public
Institution: University of Cambridge and Wellcome Connecting Science
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Alzheimer’s disease
- public attitudes
- ELSI Genomics
- sociology of science
- bioethics

Alexandre Morin-Chassé, BA MA PhD
Planning, programming, and research officer
Institution: Performance and Statistics Service of the Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Behavioral and Social Science
- Science communication
- political science
- genetic essentialism

Kellie Owens, Ph.D., MSME
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Bioethics
- Clinical Genome Sequencing
- Genomic Information

Jenny Reardon, B.A., B.S., Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Director of the Science and Justice Research Center
Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Race
- Justice
- Science