Faculty and Staff Directory

Sean A. Valles

Director and Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Health equity, philosophy, population health, public health, race, social determinants of health - View Full Profile

Karen Kelly-Blake

Associate Director of Academic Programming, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Medicine

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 - View Full Profile

Karla Bauer

Center Administrator

Karla Bauer is the Center Administrator/Fiscal Officer. She supports the Center’s Director by managing financial reporting, budget planning and administration, human resources, contract and grant management as well as strategic planning.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
bauerka@msu.edu
517-353-5197

Liz McDaniel

Communications Coordinator

Liz McDaniel manages digital media outreach and communications for the Center, including the website and blog, social media, and webinar and podcast series. Liz also provides event planning and faculty support.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
mcdan108@msu.edu
517-355-3474

Leonard Fleck

Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Philosophy

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 - View Full Profile

Larissa Fluegel

Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
Learning Society Fellow, CHM West

Medical ethics and public health; medical education and health promotion; integration of ethics, health policy, distributive justice and evidence base in the practice of medicine - View Full Profile

Monica List

Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Animal welfare, environmental philosophy, feminist philosophy, food and farming systems, philosophy of science, veterinary medicine - View Full Profile

Megh Marathe, PhD

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Joining the faculty in August 2022

Jennifer McCurdy

Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

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 - View Full Profile

Michelle T. Pham, PhD

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Joining the faculty in August 2022

Guobin Cheng

Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Southeast University, China

Doctor-patient relationship, informed consent, bioethics in traditional culture context, Chinese medical history - View Full Profile

Christopher Contag

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

Biomedicine, biomedical engineering, microbiology, molecular imaging, precision health and medicine

Sabrina Ford

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

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

Judith Andre

Professor Emerita, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Philosophy

Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis

Specialist Emerita, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Medicalized childbirth; social analysis of evidence-based medicine; doctor-patient race/ethnic concordance; breastfeeding stigma, medical education - View Full Profile

Margaret Holmes-Rovner

Professor Emerita, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Medicine

Tom Tomlinson

Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of Philosophy