Faculty and Staff Directory
Leadership Team

Sean A. Valles
Director and Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social JusticeHealth 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 JusticeAssociate 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
Faculty

Leonard Fleck
Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Department of PhilosophyMedical 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 JusticeLearning 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

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

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
Adjunct Faculty

Guobin Cheng
Adjunct Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor, Southeast University, China
Doctor-patient relationship, informed consent, bioethics in traditional culture context, Chinese medical history - View Full Profile

Christopher Contag
Adjunct ProfessorDirector, 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 ProfessorAssociate 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
Emeriti

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

Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis
Specialist Emerita, Center for Bioethics and Social JusticeMedicalized 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