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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Jay D. Aronson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights Science
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- forensic DNA
- Human Rights
- race and genetics
- dna forensic databanking

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

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

Marianna J. Bledsoe, M.A.
Independent Consultant; Deputy Editor
Institution: Biopreservation and Biobanking
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Biobanking
- Research Ethics
- Science Policy
- Secondary research use of data and biospecimens
- genomic data sharing

Shawneequa Callier, JD, MA
Associate Professor
Institution: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- race and genetics
- Ethics of precision medicine
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI)

Subhashini Chandrasekharan, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Institution: NIH
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Research Ethics
- precision medicine
- Digital health
- Intellectual Property

Mildred K. Cho, Ph.D.
SCBE Associate Director, Professor (Research) of Medicine and Pediatrics
Institution: Stanford University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI
- Research Ethics
- Health Policy

Sarah P. Chu, MS, Biology & MS, Epidemiology
Doctoral student in criminal justice (*Currently employed as Sr. Advisor on Forensic Science Policy, Innocence Project*)
Institution: John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Criminal Justice
- Forensic Sciences
- science and society
- U.S. science and technology policy
- Government Regulation

Ellen W. Clayton, M.D., J.D.
Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Health Policy, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Research Ethics
- clinical translation
- law
- Pediatrics
- reproductive rights

Betty Cohn, MBE
Research Assistant
Institution: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- direct-to-consumer genetic testing
- Public Health
- Bioethics