Clarence Braddock, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. His research interests include empirical study of shared decision making in clinical practice and patient-physician communication, such as the influence of communication on health disparities. In this work, Dr. Braddock has employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. In addition, Dr. Braddock has interests in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative approaches to bioethics education.
LaVera Crawley, M.D., M.P.H., is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Research) with research interests in population ethics, health disparities in palliative care, and race/ethnicity and trust in healthcare.
Katrina Karkazis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Senior Research Scholar with the Center for Biomedical Ethics. She is a cultural anthropologist with a particular interest in contemporary biomedicine. Her recent work has examined contemporary debates over the medical management of infants born with intersex diagnoses. A book based on this research is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has recently begun a new project that will explore the ethical issues raised by pediatric neuroimaging, using autism as a case study.
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar and a medical anthropologist who researches the social and ethical dimensions of genomic medicine. Her focus is on race, culture and human genetic variation research, including the ethical and social implications of pharmacogenomics, racial justice and health disparities, and community based research ethics.
Maren Grainger-Monsen,
M.D., is a Senior Research Scholar in the Biomedical
Ethics in Film Program. Her award-winning, innovative films,
produced for both medical students and the general public, inspire
them to experience and question the magnitude of the ethical dilemmas
facing healthcare in our society today. Her clinical medical training
includes a residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Palliative
Care.
Christopher Scott is the director of the Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society (PSCS), which studies the ethical, social, legal, political, and economic dimensions of regenerative medicine. Faculty in the PSCS--organized under the Stanford Center for Bioethics--span five universities and three continents. Research thrusts include first-in-human clinical trials, intellectual property rights, moral challenges to innovation, and the economic impacts of research tool distribution. Education and public outreach are critical components of PSCS activities. In addition to developing and teaching three undergraduate and graduate stem cell courses, Chris instructs in Stanford Continuing Studies, The Berkeley Extension, and Boalt Law School and his book, Stem Cell Now, has been translated into four languages. Chris has been featured in national and local media, including ABC, NBC, PBS, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Time, U.S. News and World Report, Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, NPR (Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, TechNation), and UPI and Fox News.
Audrey Shafer,
M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia
at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Staff Anesthesiologist
at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Her interests
include writing, poetry, medical humanities, the language of medicine,
communication in the peri- and intraoperative periods, and ethics
in the operating room.
Sara L. Tobin,
Ph.D., M.S.W., Senior Research Scholar in the Program for
Genomics, Ethics, and Society, recently completed two nationally
acclaimed educational multimedia CD-ROM discs about the genetic revolution
in medical care sparked by the rapid advances in our knowledge about
the human genome. Her current projects include both live and computer-mediated
educational programs about the entry of genetic technologies into
medical care. Abraham C Verghese, M.D. is a professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Senior Associate Chair. Work phone(s): (650) 721-6966
Work address: 300 Pasteur Drive, S-102
Stanford, California 94305-5110
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Lawrence Zaroff, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Research Scholar with the Center for Biomedical Ethics is also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and the Program in Human Biology.
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