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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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

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

Carole H. Browner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Culture and Health, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Women’s Studies
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Social impact of decoding the human genome
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Gender politics
- Genetic testing in Latin America
- Neurogenetic testing

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

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

Jeanette Hoang
Student at the University of Oklahoma
Institution: University of Oklahoma, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- undergraduate student

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