
Deborah Bowen
Professor, Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine
Assistant Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
dbowen@uw.edu
206.616.5601
Assistant Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
dbowen@uw.edu
206.616.5601
Areas of Interest:
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
- Social Science Applications
- Bioethics

Sara Curran
Associate Professor, International Studies & Public Affairs, Jackson School Intl. Studies
scurran@uw.edu
scurran@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Sociology
- Demography

Beth Devine
Professor, The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy & Economics Institute, School of Pharmacy
bdevine@uw.edu
206.221.5760
bdevine@uw.edu
206.221.5760
Areas of Interest:
- Pharmacogenomic-guided Medication Use using electronic clinical data
- Evidence Synthesis and (Network) Meta-Analysis
- Comparative Effectiveness Research

Daniel Enquobahrie
Areas of Interest:
- Perinatal Epidemiology
- Cardiovascular/ Metabolic Epidemiology
- Epigenetics

Alison Fohner
Areas of Interest:
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health
- Pharmacoepidemiology

Mandy Fretts
Areas of Interest:
- Cardio-metabolic disease prevention
- Social epidemiology
- American Indian health
- Health disparities

Michael Gale Jr.
Areas of Interest:
- Innate immune regulation in infection, immunity, and autoimmunity
- Immunogenetics
- Viral genetics

Gail Jarvik
Areas of Interest:
- Genomic and Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Ethics
- Complex Disease and Statistical Genetics

Grace John-Stewart
Areas of Interest:
- HIV Transmission Genetic Epidemiology
- HIV Progression Genetic Epidemiology
- Transmission of Sexually Treated Infections

Terrance Kavanagh
Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health
tjkav@uw.edu
206.685.8479
tjkav@uw.edu
206.685.8479
Areas of Interest:
- Gene X Environment Interactions
- Toxicogenomics
- Epigenetics

Sarah Knerr
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer prevention and control
- Translational genomics
- Stakeholder engagement
- Health and health care disparities

Ulrike (Riki) Peters
Areas of Interest:
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
- Diverse Populations/Minority Research
- Complex Disease

Brian Shirts
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Associate Director, Genetics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Assistant Director, Medical Informatics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
shirtsb@uw.edu
Associate Director, Genetics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Assistant Director, Medical Informatics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
shirtsb@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Diagnostic genetic testing
- Translational genomics
- Hereditary cancer prevention

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
Areas of Interest:
- Data Integration
- Biomedical Informatics
- Pharmacogenetics
- Translational Bioinformatics

Ellen Wijsman
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical Genetics
- Population Genetics
- Genetic Basis of Complex Traits

Benjamin Wilfond
Professor, Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
bwilfond@u.washington.edu
206.884.8355
bwilfond@u.washington.edu
206.884.8355
Areas of Interest:

Rachel Winer
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Maternal and Child Health/Women's Health