Janetta Brundage (She/Her)
Janetta's research interests center on organ transplantation ethics including transplanting organs from donors with HCV viremia and allocation of organs to patients with alcohol-related liver disease.
Katherine Burke
Debra Carroll-Beight (She/Her)
Debra uses a queer bioethics approach to explore topics on transgender mental health, reproductive issues for transgender and intersex individuals, and sexual health disparities for LGBTQIA2S+ populations.
Zachary Landeros (He/Him/His)
Zachary's research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and bioethics, with particular focus on issues in clinical ethics.
Sean Eli McCormick (He/Him/His)
At Case Western Reserve University, Mr. McCormick has served as the course director for "Perspectives on Health: Introduction to Medical Humanities and Social Medicine," a survey course designed to give students a broad overview of medical humanities and medical social sciences.
Leah Nez (She/Her)
Leah's background in philosophy and biology gives her an interdisciplinary focus and insight into complex ethical dimensions of biomedical research, particularly in cultural considerations and Indigenous sovereignty in health policy.
Gargi Pandey
Madeline Reyes (She/They)
Madeline's areas of interest include disability theory and bioethics, clinical and pediatric bioethics, feminist theory, queer theory, and religion/spirituality in bioethics.
Xavier Williams (He/Him/His)
Xavier's research interests are in AI ethics, Neuro ethics, and Genetic Ethics. Focusing on the new technologies entering these spheres, developing them alongside colleagues, and creating preemptive ethical frameworks to work off of for each.
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