Announced this morning by Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Catherine Lucey, Winston Chiong, MD, PhD has been appointed to the permanent position of Executive Director of UCSF Bioethics.
Serving as Interim Director of UCSF Bioethics since late October 2021, Dr. Chiong has worked to strengthen our interdisciplinary community of discourse on responsible clinical practice, discovery, and education in the context of broader and long-overdue discussions about justice and health equity throughout our institution. As Executive Director, he will be responsible for the integration of bioethics as an integral component of UCSF’s research, training, and clinical missions.
Dr. Chiong will continue as associate professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology’s Memory and Aging Center in the Weill Institute for Neurosciences and as principal investigator of the UCSF Decision Lab. His clinical practice focuses on Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and other cognitive disorders of aging.