Bioethics Grand Rounds are sponsored by the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Certificate Program in Medical Ethics, offered in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Regional Ethics program.

For more information, contact:
Thomas May
Medical Ethics Program Director
thomas.may@wsu.edu

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About the speakers:
Dr. Cinnamon Bloss conducts interdisciplinary research focused on social and behavioral phenomena related to emerging information and biotechnologies. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and philanthropic donations.

Recently, she was honored by the American Society of Human Genetics as the recipient of the 2022 Mentorship Award and has mentored over 50 trainees. She’s also received several teaching awards at UCSD, where she founded a new concentration in Technology and Precision Health for the Master in Public Health degree. Dr. Bloss is a California-licensed clinical psychologist.

Dr. Ryan Spellecy’s work focuses on research ethics, ethical issues in psychiatry, character in medical education, and community involvement in research. He advised the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute regarding engaging stakeholders in the peer review process, the Association of American Medical Colleges on IRBs and community based research. Recently, he was the co-PI for an NIH funded national study evaluating a novel, easier to read consent form for blood and marrow transplant trials and currently leads a project to create a community-engaged research ethics training program as well as a study to evaluate the strengths and barriers regarding cancer clinical trial participation in African American churches.