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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Karen Glanz, Ph.D., M.P.H.
George A. Weiss University Professor
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine and School of Nursing
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Cancer prevention/screening
- Nutrition/food environments
- Skin cancer
- Health Disparities
- Community-engaged research

Nora B Henrikson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Investigator
Institution: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Consent
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI)
- Behavioral and Social Science
- Epidemiology
- Cascade screening

Sara J. Knight, PhD
Professor
Institution: University of Utah
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Clinical Psychology
- Health Services Research
- Behavioral and Social Science
- Patient Preferences
- Health Equity

Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MPH
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Epidemiology
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- obstetric outcomes
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Prenatal care
- clinical decision-making
- health disparities
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

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

Chelsea L. Ratcliff, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Communication
Institution: University of Georgia
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Communication Research
- Uncertainty
- Attitudes
- Experimental Designs
- Ethics of precision medicine

Melissa K. Uveges, PhD, MA, RN
Assistant Professor
Institution: Boston College
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Genetic Testing
- Cascade screening
- Familial disease
- Pediatric Research

Catharine Wang, Ph.D., MSc
Associate Professor
Institution: Boston University School of Public Health
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- behavioral /social science
- Behavioral interventions
- Health Disparities
- cancer prevention
- Health Communication