Winston Chiong is an Associate Professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology Memory and Aging Center, principal investigator of the UCSF Decision Lab, and Executive Director of UCSF Bioethics. His clinical practice focuses on Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and other cognitive disorders of aging.
Chanel Matney, PhD, is the Program Manager for UCSF Bioethics. She combines her expertise in project development, stakeholder management, and public communication to support the program's intellectual leadership and cross-disciplinary impact in research, education, and public engagement. Her interdisciplinary background includes neuroscience research, and legislative affairs in science and technology policy.
Sara Ackerman, PhD, MPH, is an anthropologist, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Bioethics and Regulatory Support at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Her research focuses on the social and ethical dimensions of emerging medical technologies – including genomic sequencing and artificial intelligence – and how to incorporate patient and community engagement in translational science.
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 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 clinical work is in outpatient specialty care in geriatrics and dementia care. Her academic work is focused on understanding the unmet needs of older adults who are seen in primary care in the safety net, especially those who are living with dementia.
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.
Book Talk | Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Doctors Who Supply Them
A Conversation with author Diane Tober, PhD
April 16, 2025 | 3-5pm PST
Jade Conference Room #208
UCSF Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
New Technologies, New Dilemmas: Bioethics in a Changing Healthcare Landscape
Breakout session panel during the 2025 UCSF Health Services Research Symposium feat. Drs. Winston Chiong, Sara Ackerman, Julia Brown, and Valerie Black
April 29, 2025 | 11-12pm PST
William Rutter Center, UCSF Mission Bay
