Faculty Associates

In addition to the Core Faculty, the C:B welcomes UNC faculty with active interests in bioethics to join the Center as Faculty Associates. Associates are invited to all C:B events, collaborate in C:B research, consultation and education activities, and serve as crucial cross-campus liaisons in Center planning. The current roster of C:B Faculty Associates includes faculty from the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the Law School, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health:

ANNA BRANDON, PhD, ABPP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Women’s Mood Disorders Center

MARA BUCHBINDER, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine

GREGORY P. COPENHAVER, PhD
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies (MCDB)
Department of Biology
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

GISELE CORBIE-SMITH, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, Social Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

LYNN DRESSLER, DrPh
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Associate Director for Policy and Ethics, Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

JAMES P. EVANS, MD, PhD
Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics & Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Genetics in Medicine

LAURA C. HANSON, MD, MPH
Associate Professor in Geriatric Medicine

Co-Director of the Palliative Care Program
Department of Epidemiology

GAIL HENDERSON, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Sociology

DIANE KJERVIK, JD, RN, FAAN
Professor & Chair, Health Care Environments Division
UNC School of Nursing

JOAN KRAUSE, JD
Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor, Social Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

DOUGLAS MACLEAN, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy

BENJAMIN MASON MEIER, JD, LLM, PhD
Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy

RAUL NECOCHEA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Social Medicine

DANIEL K. NELSON, MSc
Professor, Social Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics
Director, Office of Human Research Ethics

MATTHEW PIERCE, JD, MPH
Injury Prevention Research Center

CHRISTINE RINI, PhD
Research Assistant
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education
Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education

DONALD ROSENSTEIN, MD
Professor and Director, Comprehensive Cancer Support Program

RICHARD S. SAVER, JD
Associate Professor of Law
Adjunct Associate Professor, Social Medicine, and Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

MI-KYUNG SONG, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

RON STRAUSS, DMD, PhD
Executive Associate Provost
Professor, Social Medicine
Professor, Dental Ecology
Professor, Epidemiology

JAMES C. THOMAS, MPH, PHD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Deputy Director for HIV and Infectious Diseases
MEASURE Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center
Director of the Program in Public Health Ethics

MARCIA VAN RIPER, PhD, RN
Associate Professor & Chair
Division of Family Health, School of Nursing

KIRK C. WILHELMSEN, MD, PHD
Carol Master Schiller Distinguished Scholar in Neurology
Professor UNC Department of Genetics and Neurology
Domain Scientist for Biology Renaissance Computing Institute
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
Neuroscience Center
Lineberger Cancer Center

LOUISE WINSTANLY, LLB, MS Bioethics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Associate Faculty, UNC Center for Genomic and Society
Assistant Professor, Union Graduate College, The Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership
Gillings School of Global Public Health