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Brian Block is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, the Associate Director of the Medical ICU, and the Associate Director of Critical Care Ultrasound at UCSF, and the Assistant Director of Critical Care Medicine for the Pulmonary Fellowship.

Dr. Julia Brown is an anthropologist and bioethicist who examines lived experiences, caregiving and social value-making around controversial biotechnologies. She is currently exploring the ethics of prenatal genetic technologies, including the emergence of in utero gene editing. She is author of The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk conditions (Routledge 2022). Dr Brown is an affiliate of the UC Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, where she works on community and public engagement strategies regarding prenatal genetics.

Jack Chase MD FAAFP FHM is a Volunteer Clinical Professor in the University of California San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine. He practices clinically as a hospital medicine and palliative care physician at Summit Hospital in Oakland, California.

Dr. Anna Chodos is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General and the Division of Geriatrics, both within the Department of Medicine at UCSF. Her work focuses on outpatient care in geriatrics and dementia care.

Rebecca (Becky) DeBoer, MD, MA is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCSF and an attending medical oncologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco Hospital (SFGH). She has an academic background in bioethics and global health, and prior clinical experience working as an oncology clinician at Butaro Hospital in rural Rwanda with the NGO Partners In Health.

Dan Dohan is Professor of Health Policy, Surgery, and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. He received his PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley. His publications address medical sociology, health policy, culture and inequality, and ethnographic research methods. He has written one book, The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio (UC Press 2003).

Research areas include historical perspectives on the development of modern clinical practices and medical epistemology; the ethcis and values of medical technologies, such as information management systems and telemedicine.