Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH, is a linguistic and medical anthropologist who uses qualitative methods and anthropological theory to examine issues in healthcare communication, medical decision making, and empirical bioethics. Much of his work examines treatment decision-making in perioperative contexts (surgery, anesthesia, intensive care) with the goal of developing models of decision-making better tailored to the intricacies of clinician-patient interaction. He uses social scientific theory and method to study ethical issues related to medical research, such as how laypersons should be incorporated into exception from informed consent (EFIC) research and how institutional review boards (IRBs) justify their authority. Dr. Clapp teaches courses in anthropology and qualitative methods, and collaborates with investigators across the Perelman School of Medicine and elsewhere on qualitative projects. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and his MPH from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Kristin Harkins, MPH, serves as project manager and core navigator for the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory’s Ethics and Regulation Core. Kristin has extensive experience executing the day to day operations of research on ethical and social issues in late life cognitive impairment, and in the design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative studies. As research program manager, Kristin oversees the research and administrative activities of the Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB) and the Penn Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine.

Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, is the Art and Ilene Penn Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, as well as Professor of Pediatrics, at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He directs the postdoctoral fellowship in the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics Penn. He attended Harvard College, received his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and received his public health degree from UC Berkeley. Dr. Joffe trained in pediatrics at UCSF and undertook fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on ethical and regulatory challenges in biomedical research and in learning healthcare systems and on the ethical implications of genomics in research and care.

Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and Health Policy and holds a secondary appointment at Penn Law. Dr. Largent’s current research focuses on ethical and regulatory aspects of human subjects research and on the experience of patients and families on the Alzheimer's continuum.

Alex John London, PhD, is the Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. An elected fellow of the Hastings Center, Professor London’s work focuses on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development and deployment of novel technologies in medicine, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, on methodological issues in theoretical and practical ethics, and on cross-national issues of justice and fairness. His book, For The Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics was published in 2022 and is available as an open access title from Oxford University Press. His papers have appeared in Mind, The Philosopher’s Imprint, Science, JAMA, The Lancet, The BMJ, PLoS Medicine, Statistics In Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, and numerous other journals and collections. He is also co-editor of Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, one of the most widely used textbooks in medical ethics.