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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Clement A. Adebamowo, Sc.D., B.M., Ch.B. Honors
Associate Director, (Population Science), and Director For Global Health Cancer Research/Research Scientist
Institution: University of Maryland School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Research, Nigeria
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Cancer
- Genomics
- Research Ethics

Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and Director, Center for Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia
Institution: Columbia University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI of neuropsychiatric genetics
- Return of genetic results
- Ethics of precision medicine
- Ethics of variant reinterpretation
- Consent for genetic testing

Jalayne J. Arias, JD, MA
Associate Professor
Institution: Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Anti-Discrimination
- Neuroscience
- Alzheimer's disease related dementia
- Aging
- Public Health

Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D.
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and chair, History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- History of disease
- Epidemiology
- Health Policy
- Risk
- Cancer

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

Laura M. Beskow, M.P.H, Ph.D.
Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics, Professor of Health Policy
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human Research Protections
- Informed Consent
- Research Recruitment
- Biobanking
- Pragmatic Trials

Michael D. Bess, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor of History, Professor of Communication of Science and Technology, Professor of European Studies
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human bioenhancement technologies
- Ethics of advanced AI
- Global catastrophic risks
- Global democratic governance
- Collective military security

Jessica W Blanchard, PhD
Researcher
Institution: Center for the Ethics of Indigenous Genomic Research, University of Oklahoma
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI
- Indigenous Communities
- Community Engagement
- Anthropology

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

Deborah J. Bowen, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington
Institution: University of Washington
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Behavioral Science