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TRANSLATING "ELSI": Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics

 

Sponsors and Planning Committee

 

Translating "ELSI": Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics is being hosted by the Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law in the Department of Bioethics of Case Western Reserve University. 

Research funding is provided by the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Translating ELSI 2008 Organizing Committee

Joy Boyer
Senior Program Analyst
Genetics and the Humanities
National Human Genome Research Institute

Marilyn Coors
Assistant Professor of Bioethics
University of Colorado at Denver

Lauren Dame
Senior Lecturing Fellow
Duke University Law School

Sandra Lee
Senior Research Scholar
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

Jean McEwen
Program Director
Genetic Variation, Law and Social Policy
National Human Genome Research Institute

Maxwell Mehlman
Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law; Director, The Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law,
Professor of Bioethics,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Thomas Murray
President
The Hastings Center

Pilar Ossorio
Associate Professor of Law and Medical Ethics
University of Wisconsin Law School

Perry Payne
Assistant Research Professor
George Washington University
Department of Health Policy

Nancy Press
Professor
OHSU School of Medicine

Elizabeth Thomson
Program Director
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research (ELSI)

Marcia Van Riper
Associate Professor, Chair Family Health Division
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ELSI Conference Chair:
Eric Juengst
Professor of Bioethics
Director, Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law
Department of Bioethics

ELSI Conference Co-coordinators:
Ann Gynn
Dominic Bonacci