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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Anna Jabloner, Ph.D.
College Fellow
Institution: Harvard University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Biomedicine
- Feminist Science Studies
- Ethnographies of the U.S.
- Race, Gender, Sexuality & Class

Michelle L. McGowan, PhD
Research Professor, Ethics Center
Institution: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Reproduction / Reproductive Technologies
- abortion
- precision medicine
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI)
- carrier testing

Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics and Director, Center for Bioethics & Health Law
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- return of results
- Informed Consent
- pharmacogenomics
- Ethics of precision medicine
- genomic research

Alexandra M. Stern, Ph.D.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies; Associate Dean for the Humanities, Office of the LSA Dean
Institution: University of Michigan
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- History of science and medicine
- Bioethics
- Gender studies