Current Fellows

Nicole Foti, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the CTSA Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. medical sociologist whose research explores the political economy of biomedicine and health equity. She earned her PhD in Sociology from UC San Francisco in 2023 and was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics before joining Stanford. Her research has been funded by the Center for Engaged Scholarship and published in Social Science & Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) Empirical Bioethics, and Social Studies of Science (forthcoming), among others.

Chenery Lowe, Ph.D., CGC,  is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford Training Program in ELSI Research (T32) at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She is a genetic counselor and healthcare communication researcher. She received her ScM in Genetic Counseling from the Johns Hopkins University/ National Institutes of Health Genetic Counseling Training Program in 2018. Chenery received her Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2022, where she later served as an assistant scientist and academic director for the JHU/NIH genetic counseling program. Clinically, she has provided genetic counseling in immunology and adult oncology settings. She has taught graduate-level courses on interpersonal communication in health care, health literacy, and social and behavioral research in genetic counseling. Her research interests are in the areas of patient-provider communication, health equity, implicit bias, communication skills training interventions, and the ethics of interpersonal influence in medical care. 

Abdoul Jalil Djiberou Mahamadou, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics working on the identification of ethical, social, and legal considerations arising in the context of AI and the drug discovery process in partnership with GSK.ai. Prior to his appointment at Stanford, Dr. Djiberou completed a Mitacs Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship at Simon Fraser University where he worked on the identification of lifestyle factors contributing to successful cognitive aging in older adults’ population using Machine Learning techniques. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Eng. in Applied Mathematics from Université Clermont Auvergne, and a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University.  His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the development of new unsupervised machine learning models and their applications to health data mining. In 2019, Dr. Djiberou was named the best Nigerien student in France based on academic performance by the Réseau des Etudiants Nigériens de France.

Madelena Ng, PhD is the is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford Training Program in ELSI Research (T32) at the Center for Biomedical Ethics. Madelena Ng is an applied health scientist who evaluates the real-world impact of emerging technologies on clinical, behavioral, and societal outcomes. Prior to her appointment at SCBE, Dr. Ng was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research leading foundational work in AI ethics, governance, and responsible innovation. She aims to further her training in ELSI research at the intersection of generative biological AI, human rights, and industry practice. She is committed to driving ethics from the margins to the core of health AI development and decision-making.

Jenny Clark Schiff, PhD is the Clinical Ethics Fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Jenny completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York in 2024 (September conferral). Her dissertation focused on poorly understood medical conditions that are, in large part, “invisible” but can be profoundly disabling to patients (e.g. myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome). Jenny is interested in how to improve the doctor-patient relationship in settings of uncertainty, and how to better design medical institutions and medical education to care for patients with poorly understood medical conditions in a more just and humane manner. While pursuing her Ph.D., she was an Ethics Fellow, and then a Senior Ethics Fellow, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Jenny has taught or assistant taught philosophy and bioethics courses to graduate students at New York University and undergraduate students at The City College of New York. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia College. In 2014, Jenny was awarded a Fulbright research grant to study Philosophy and Education in Italy through affiliations with the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Padua. Jenny also has an M.A. in Italian Literature and an M.A. in English Education, both from Columbia University.

Artem Trotsyuk, PhDis a Gsk.ai - Stanford Ethics Fellow and received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Stanford University in 2022 and a Master’s in Computer Science, AI Specialization Track, in 2021. His BS is in Biological Sciences, with an emphasis in Neurology, Physiology, and Behavior, from UC Davis. In 2020, he was a McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Fellow, and in 2019 an Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow. In 2019 he was named a Forbes 30 under 30 Scholar. He has experience in venture capital and consulting in biotechnology and health policy. Some of his recent work includes outlining risks associated with data misuse and developing frameworks for the ethical use of patient data.

Rachel Ungar, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford Training Program in ELSI Research (T32) at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Her graduate research was in computational genomics focused on multiomics approaches in Stephen Montgomery’s lab. She was an active member of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and GREGoR rare disease consortia focused on transcriptomic methods and data standards. She also examined the impact of rare variants and sex on the X-chromosome. During her PhD, she co-created and taught a course expanding ethics education to bioscientists (GENE 220: Genetics, Ethics, and Society) and evaluated its impact. During her postdoc, Rachel aims to use her background to integrate genomics and ethics, beginning with ethical considerations for rare and undiagnosed disorders. Rachel received her PhD in Genetics at Stanford. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Arkansas with minors in mathematics and computer science.

Quinn Waeiss, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford Training Program in ELSI Research (T32) at the Center for Biomedical Ethics. They received their Ph.D. in Political Science and comparative politics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They also hold a BA in Political Science and German from Grand Valley State University.