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).

Jason Karlawish, MD, is a professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is board-certified in geriatric medicine. Dr. Karlawish leads the Penn Program for Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB), and is co-associate director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, co-director of the Penn Memory Center, and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Outreach, Recruitment and Education Core. He is the author of The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It.

Julie Lima, PhD, MPH, is an expert in data compliance and human subjects research regulatory matters. As a health services researcher, Dr. Lima has hands-on experience working with both survey and administrative data and has collaborated with national leaders in the areas of unmet need for care for people living with functional limitations in the community; quality of care at the end of life; culture change practices in the nursing homes; and post-acute care among Medicare beneficiaries.

Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor of health policy & management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Dracopoulos Rising Professor of Bioethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics. She conducts empirical and normative research on ethical and policy issues in clinical research and public health. A particular focus of her research is on ethical and practical issues presented by embedding research into ongoing clinical care. As part of this work, Dr. Morain serves as co-chair of the Ethics and Regulatory Core for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory. Additional research areas include women’s and reproductive health, including the ethical inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in clinical trials. Dr. Morain received her PhD in health policy from Harvard and completed postdoctoral training at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins.