Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications
The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy researches and influences policy on today’s most pressing ethical issues.
The center focuses on conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research on perennial and emerging ethical issues arising in clinical practice and in biomedical research in a changing healthcare environment. Our research informs our teaching, clinical practice and contributions to the development of health and science policy at the local, national and international levels.
Our staff is dedicated to creating a shared, sustainable, intellectual environment in which all stakeholders can critically reflect on and respond to ethical challenges in healthcare and biomedical research.
Submissions from 2023
Integrating Participant Feedback and Concerns to Improve Community and Individual Level Chemical Exposure Assessment Reports, Samantha M Samon, Michael Barton, Kim Anderson, et al.
Integration of Transcriptome-Wide Association Study With Neuronal Dysfunction Assays Provides Functional Genomics Evidence for Parkinson’s Disease Genes, Jiayang Li, Bismark Kojo Amoh, Emma McCormick, et al.
International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy Position Paper: Key Considerations to Support Evidence-Based Cell and Gene Therapies and Oppose Marketing of Unproven Products, Laertis Ikonomou, Natividad Cuende, Miguel Forte, et al.
International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis 2022 Debate 3-Fetal Genome Sequencing Should Be Offered to All Pregnant Patients, Ignatia B Van den Veyver, Yuval Yaron, and Zandra C Deans
Intraoperative Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality After Open Repair of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, Nicola Troisi, Giulia Bertagna, Athanasios Saratzis, et al.
Key Drivers of Family-Level Utility of Pediatric Genomic Sequencing: A Qualitative Analysis to Support Preference Research, Hadley Stevens Smith, Emily S Bonkowski, Raymond Belanger Deloge, et al.
Loss of the Maternal Effect Gene Nlrp2 Alters the Transcriptome of Ovulated Mouse Oocytes and Impacts Expression of Histone Demethylase KDM1B, Zahra Anvar, Imen Chakchouk, Momal Sharif, et al.
Measuring Misophonia in Youth: A Psychometric Evaluation of Child and Parent Measures, Matti Cervin, Andrew G Guzick, Jane Clinger, et al.
Metabolic Dysfunction, Triglyceride-Glucose Index, and Risk of Severe Asthma Exacerbation, Kristen A Staggers, Charles Minard, Michelle Byers, et al.
Microbiome Alterations Driven by Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Two Disjunctive Murine Models, Sergio Castañeda, Marina Muñoz, Peter J Hotez, et al.
Mindfulness and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Pediatric Misophonia, Samuel D Spencer, Andrew G Guzick, Matti Cervin, et al.
Mitochondrial Structure and Function Adaptation in Residual Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Surviving Chemotherapy Treatment, Mokryun L Baek, Junegoo Lee, Katherine E Pendleton, et al.
Modeling the Longitudinal Changes of Ancestry Diversity in the Million Veteran Program, Frank R Wendt, Gita A Pathak, Jacqueline Vahey, et al.
Modulating a Prebiotic Food Source Influences Inflammation and Immune-Regulating Gut Microbes and Metabolites: Insights from the BE GONE Trial, Xiaotao Zhang, Ehsan Irajizad, Kristi L Hoffman, et al.
Multiomics in Primary and Metastatic Breast Tumors From the Aurora Us Network Finds Microenvironment and Epigenetic Drivers of Metastasis, Susana Garcia-Recio, Toshinori Hinoue, Gregory L Wheeler, et al.
Nanoparticle-Mediated Therapy with miR-198 Sensitizes Pancreatic Cancer to Gemcitabine Treatment through Downregulation of VCP-Mediated Autophagy, Christian Marin-Muller, Dali Li, Jian-Ming Lü, et al.
Native BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy in an Orthotopic Heart Transplant Patient, Zachary M Thompson, George Ajene, Prathit A Kulkarni, et al.
Neddylation Inhibition Sensitises Renal Medullary Carcinoma Tumours to Platinum Chemotherapy, Daniel D Shapiro, Niki Millward Zacharias, Durga N Tripathi, et al.
Neprilysin Inhibitors in Heart Failure: The Science, Mechanism of Action, Clinical Studies, and Unanswered Questions, Biykem Bozkurt, Ajith P Nair, Arunima Misra, et al.
NFKB2 Haploinsufficiency Identified via Screening for IFN-α2 Autoantibodies in Children and Adolescents Hospitalized With SARS-CoV-2-Related Complications, Aaron Bodansky, Sara E Vazquez, Janet Chou, et al.
Nourishing the Brain on Deep Space Missions: Nutritional Psychiatry in Promoting Resilience, Nihar N Pathare, Flavia Fayet-Moore, Jennifer A Fogarty, et al.
Novel and Replicated Clinical and Genetic Risk Factors for Toxicity From High-Dose Methotrexate in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Mark Zobeck, M Brooke Bernhardt, Kala Y Kamdar, et al.
Novel Banana Lectin Car-T Cells to Target Pancreatic Tumors and Tumor-Associated Stroma, Mary K McKenna, Ada Ozcan, Daniel Brenner, et al.
Nurse Leader Perceptions of Data in the Veterans Health Administration: A Qualitative Evaluation, Janine J Wong, Richard P SoRelle, Christine Yang, et al.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Youth and Young Adults With Depression: Clinical Characteristics of Comorbid Presentations, David B Riddle, Andrew Guzick, Abu Minhajuddin, et al.