Faculty and Staff Directory

• Director and Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: health equity, philosophy, population health, public health, race, social determinants of health

• Associate Director of Academic Programming, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
• Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Medicine
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: health services research, shared decision-making, decision aid development and implementation, clinical communication skills and training, mHealth, men’s health, medical workforce policy, health equity, medical education curriculum development, medical education faculty development

• Center Assistant

Mar Dunstone is the Center Administrative Assistant. Mar supports the center by assisting wtih unit administration as well as supporting event logistics for the Center.

• Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Medicine
• Pronouns: they/she

Expertise: Disability studies, neuroethics, medical humanities, empirical research on human research ethics, qualitative research, ethnography, cross-cultural studies, autism, neurodiversity, Italy

• University Distinguished Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Philosophy
• Pronouns: he/him/his

Expertise: medical ethics, health care policy, social and political philosophy, genome technology, precision medicine, health care rationing, democratic deliberation on bioethical issues, public health preparedness, death and dying

• Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
• Learning Society Fellow, CHM West
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: medical education, medical ethics, shared decision-making, social context of clinical decisions, social determinants of health, health policy

Monica List

• Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: animal welfare, environmental philosophy, feminist philosophy, food and farming systems, philosophy of science, veterinary medicine

Megh Marathe

• Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
• Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Information, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
• Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Expertise: epilepsy, disability, LGBTQIA+ experiences, ethnography, science & technology studies, information studies, social analyses of medical and civic technology, inclusive technology

Jennifer McCurdy

• Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Medicine
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: clinical bioethics consultation, policy-writing, education; application of critical social theories to bioethics: postcolonialism, anti-colonialism, critical race, religious studies; health equity; interdisciplinary bioethics education; critical care ethics

Michelle T. Pham

• Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Medicine
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: neuroethics, medical ethics, philosophy of science, social epistemology, feminist philosophy

Christopher Contag

• Adjunct Professor
• Director, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering
• Hannah Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Expertise: biomedicine, biomedical engineering, microbiology, molecular imaging, precision health and medicine

Sabrina Ford

• Adjunct Associate Professor
• Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Expertise: cancer disparities, cancer prevention and intervention, health behaviors, endometriosis, ademoyosis and liemyomas, STDs and HIV in young women

• Clinical Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
• Director, Healthcare Equity Initiatives, Office of System Diversity Equity and Inclusion
• Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Family Medicine
• Henry Ford Health
• Pronouns: she/her/hers

Expertise: health equity, family medicine, public health, social determinants of health, diabetes, hypertension, patient centered health care, graduate medical education

• Research Assistant
• Pronouns: he/him

Jacob Krehbiel is a research assistant working with Assistant Professor Ariel Cascio on the project "Meanings of autism and work: Autistic and non-autistic people navigating shared spaces and conflicting conceptualizations.” He has a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Technical Communication from Ferris State University.