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I am an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences at Geisinger, where in addition to engaging in normative and legal scholarship, I investigate judgments and decision-making related to science, innovation, and health. I am also Faculty Co-Director of the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT) in Geisinger’s Steele Institute for Health Innovation. The BIT designs, implements, and rigorously evaluates provider- and patient-facing “nudges” that aim to make healthy choices easier.
My writing has appeared in leading journals of bioethics (American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal), law (Harvard Law Review, Administrative Law Review), and science (Science, Nature, PNAS), as well as in popular media outlets (New York Times, Slate, Wired, Los Angeles Times, and Forbes.com).
My research has been has been funded by several divisions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—including the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and the Office of the Director—and by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health, the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), the JPB Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and Open Philanthropy.
I have served on several boards and commissions, including National Academies study committees and working groups, an American Psychological Association blue ribbon commission, the editorial board of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, the Board of Directors of Open Humans Foundation (formerly PersonalGenomes.org), and the Ethics and Compliance Advisory Board of PatientsLikeMe. I am a Team Scientist with Wharton's Behavior Change for Good Initiative.
Before joining Geisinger, I was an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities; and a Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I earned a Ph.D. in religious studies, with a focus on applied ethics, from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where I was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, I clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.
My writing has appeared in leading journals of bioethics (American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal), law (Harvard Law Review, Administrative Law Review), and science (Science, Nature, PNAS), as well as in popular media outlets (New York Times, Slate, Wired, Los Angeles Times, and Forbes.com).
My research has been has been funded by several divisions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—including the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and the Office of the Director—and by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health, the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), the JPB Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and Open Philanthropy.
I have served on several boards and commissions, including National Academies study committees and working groups, an American Psychological Association blue ribbon commission, the editorial board of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, the Board of Directors of Open Humans Foundation (formerly PersonalGenomes.org), and the Ethics and Compliance Advisory Board of PatientsLikeMe. I am a Team Scientist with Wharton's Behavior Change for Good Initiative.
Before joining Geisinger, I was an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities; and a Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I earned a Ph.D. in religious studies, with a focus on applied ethics, from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where I was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, I clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.