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April 2, 2009: Prof. Tim Caulfield presenting his thoughts on Stem cell policy issues 

Prof. Tim Caulfield, Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta will present his thoughts on recent international health policy changes.

April 9, 2009: Sohini Jindal on BioPharma Policymaking in Washington, D.C. 

Sohini Gupta Jindal, is a lawyer, and in the recent past has been health policy counsel to Senator Bayh and a senior lobbyist at the American Hospital Association. She is now director of federal government relations at Baxter Biosciences. 

April 14, 2009: Enid A Camps, Deputy Attorney General, CA -- DNA Data Banks in CA 
 
Enid A Camps, a Deputy Attorney General for the State of CA is the assigned legal advisor to the California Department of Justice DNA Laboratory. She primarily handles DNA cases at the appellate level. Her cases have helped define the development of law on DNA admissibility in our State. On behalf of the AG's office, she drafted, in conjunction with the State's DOJ DNA Lab, the "DNA and Forensic Identification Data Base and Data Bank Act of 1998," a comprehensive chapter of laws defining and governing the operation of California's DNA Data Bank program. Ms. Camps will describe her experiences and take questions from the audience. 
 

April 21, 2009: Sandra SooJin Lee -- Race and Distributive Justice in Pharmacogenomics Research 
 
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar, is an anthropologist who studies race, ethnicity and culture in science, technology and biomedicine. Her research programme focuses on the social and scientific meanings of race in human genetic variation research and their implications for understandings of human difference. Dr. Lee has conducted a study on the social and ethical issues related to the DNA sampling of human populations and policies around the use of racial taxonomies by publicly funded cell repositories. Her current project entitled, Race and Distributive Justice in Pharmacogenomics Research, which includes a development of an anthropology of racial justice, with a particular focus on health disparities among populations. Dr. Lee is conducting a study of the emerging field of pharmacogenomics and its impact on the health status of historically racialized populations. 

Dr. Lee's previous research includes a study of race and ethnicity in contemporary Japan and an analysis of the social identity, aging, and discrimination. The project focused on the meaning of race in an "intra-racial" context, contributing a non-western perspective on the concept. Dr. Lee has also conducted extensive community based research with Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino/Latina, and African American communities in the Bay area on issues including AIDS prevention, domestic violence, intergenerational support networks, and community based health organizations for the elderly. 

Dr. Lee's awards include a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship , National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award , and a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Career Development Award in Research Ethics . She is also a member of the NHGRI Program in Ethical, Legal, Social Implications Genetic Variation Consortium. 
In addition to her research activities, Dr. Lee teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology and the Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity . Her courses include Gender in East Asia, Asian American Immigration and Health, Korean American Diaspora, Race and Medicine. She is also co-organizer of the ongoing Stanford Faculty Workshop "Revisiting Race and Ethnicity in the Context of Emerging Genetics Research" devoted to interdisciplinary dialogue on the social and scientific consequences of human genetic variation research on the study of race and ethnicity. 

Dr. Lee recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program in Genomics, Ethics and Society at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She received her Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. As a graduate student, Dr. Lee studied at Tokyo University, Japan; Yonsei University, South Korea; and Magdalen College, Oxford University, England. Her undergraduate degree is in Human Biology from Stanford University. 

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