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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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

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

Cinnamon S. Bloss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institution: University of California San Diego
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Direct-to-consumer genomics
- scale development
- Psychological assessment

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

Natasha Bonhomme
Founder
Institution: Expecting Health
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- family communication
- ELSI Issues in Large-scale Population Cohort Studies
- Newborn screening
- Communication
- prenatal testing

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

Jada L. Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Community Engagement
- Racial Health Disparities

Julia EH Brown, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioethics and Innovative Technologies
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Psychiatry
- Medical Anthropology
- genomic data sharing
- Psychosocial Influences
- health disparities