Mildred K Cho
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mildred K Cho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mildred K |
| FAMILY NAME | Cho |
| SIGNATURE | CHO M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1669-3932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preventing Diffusion of Moral Responsibility in Big Team Science: Taking an Ecosystem Approach
Long‐standing frameworks for the ethics of biomedical research are being challenged on multiple fronts by seismic shifts in the way science is practiced. One such shift, which is the focus of “Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science,” by Susan Wolf and colleagues in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, is the evolution of biomedical research toward very large scientific teams. The aut…
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI
The ever-increasing attention to artificial intelligence applications in medicine and healthcare requires us to critically evaluate the effectiveness of the current U.S. regulatory environment in this arena. We outline a series of challenges facing the governance of healthcare AI, including an overreliance on self-regulation when many AI developers lack knowledge of relevant regulation or acknowledge their role in preventing harms, lack of shared…
Expanding the Agenda for a More Just Genomics
The integration of genomics into public health and medicine is happening at a faster rate than the accrual of the capabilities necessary to ensure the equitable, global distribution of its clinical benefits. Uneven access to genetic testing and follow‐up care, unequal distribution of the resources required to access and participate in research, and underrepresentation of some descent groups in genetic and clinical datasets (and thus uncertain gen…
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded Elsi’ in U.S. genomic medicine
Calls to identify, explore, and address ethical and social issues as part of the design and implementation of scientific research are now widespread. One way of doing so is through an embedded approach, where ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) researchers are situated within larger scientific research studies. We trace the emergence of the ‘embedded ELSI’ approach to integration alongside the development of genomic medicine. In partic…
To Understand Inequity, Bioethics Needs to Sort Things Out
Bioethics is reexamining how to implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice concerns into scholarship. However, bioethicists should question the categories used to define diversity. The act of categorization is value laden, and classification systems confer power and benefits and generate harms. For example, what conditions count as disabilities? We should consider the equity implications of offering only “male” and “female” options for s…
Values and Practices to Strengthen Genetic Research Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
Genetic datasets lack diversity and include very few data from Indigenous populations. Research models based on equitable partnership have the potential to increase Indigenous participation and have led to successful collaborations. We report here on a meeting of participants in four Indigenous community-university partnerships pursuing research on precision medicine. The goal of the meeting was to define values and practices that strengthen oppo…
Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health
Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to “reopen” economies while containing the spread of Covid‐19. Most digital contact tracing projects in the United States and Europe have prioritized privacy protections in the form of local storage of data on smartphones and the deidentification of information. However, in the prioritization of privacy in this narrow form, there is not sufficie…
Perspectives on Precision Health Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities and the Physicians That Serve Them
Engagement of racial/ethnic minority communities and the providers who serve them is important for advancing a precision health approach to addressing health disparities
Using Korean Dramas as a Precision Mental Health Education Tool for Asian Americans: A Pilot Study
Precision mental health (MH) holds great potential for revolutionizing MH care and reducing the burden of mental illness. Efforts to engage Asian Americans in precision MH research is necessary to help reduce MH disparities. Korean drama ("K-drama") television shows may be an effective educational tool to increase precision MH knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (KAB) among Asian Americans. This study determined whether KAB improved after partici…
What Is the FDA Going to Think: Negotiating Values through Reflective and Strategic Category Work in Microbiome Science
The US National Institute of Health's Human Microbiome Project aims to use genomic techniques to understand the microbial communities that live on the human body. The emergent field of microbiome science brought together diverse disciplinary perspectives and technologies, thus facilitating the negotiation of differing values. Here, we describe how values are conceptualized and negotiated within microbiome research. Analyzing discussions from a se…
Innocent Fun or “Microslavery”: An Ethical Analysis of Biotic Games
In 2011, Ingmar Riedel‐Kruse's bioengineering laboratory at Stanford University publicized an application that uses paramecia for what the researchers termed “biotic games.” These games make use of living organisms, computer programs, and lab equipment to implement games like Pong, Pac‐man, and soccer. Gamesand related activities are often considered nonserious or trivial, whereas life, biological systems, and science are treated very seriously i…
The International HapMap Project
The goal of the International HapMap Project is to determine the common patterns of DNA sequence variation in the human genome and to make this information freely available in the public domain. An international consortium is developing a map of these patterns across the genome by determining the genotypes of one million or more sequence variants, their frequencies and the degree of association between them, in DNA samples from populations with a…
Are Clinical Trials of Cell Transplantation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Ethical
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI
The ever-increasing attention to artificial intelligence applications in medicine and healthcare requires us to critically evaluate the effectiveness of the current U.S. regulatory environment in this arena. We outline a series of challenges facing the governance of healthcare AI, including an overreliance on self-regulation when many AI developers lack knowledge of relevant regulation or acknowledge their role in preventing harms, lack of shared…
What Is the FDA Going to Think: Negotiating Values through Reflective and Strategic Category Work in Microbiome Science
The US National Institute of Health's Human Microbiome Project aims to use genomic techniques to understand the microbial communities that live on the human body. The emergent field of microbiome science brought together diverse disciplinary perspectives and technologies, thus facilitating the negotiation of differing values. Here, we describe how values are conceptualized and negotiated within microbiome research. Analyzing discussions from a se…
Are Clinical Trials of Cell Transplantation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Ethical
The International HapMap Project
The goal of the International HapMap Project is to determine the common patterns of DNA sequence variation in the human genome and to make this information freely available in the public domain. An international consortium is developing a map of these patterns across the genome by determining the genotypes of one million or more sequence variants, their frequencies and the degree of association between them, in DNA samples from populations with a…
Innocent Fun or “Microslavery”: An Ethical Analysis of Biotic Games
In 2011, Ingmar Riedel‐Kruse's bioengineering laboratory at Stanford University publicized an application that uses paramecia for what the researchers termed “biotic games.” These games make use of living organisms, computer programs, and lab equipment to implement games like Pong, Pac‐man, and soccer. Gamesand related activities are often considered nonserious or trivial, whereas life, biological systems, and science are treated very seriously i…
What Is the FDA Going to Think: Negotiating Values through Reflective and Strategic Category Work in Microbiome Science
The US National Institute of Health's Human Microbiome Project aims to use genomic techniques to understand the microbial communities that live on the human body. The emergent field of microbiome science brought together diverse disciplinary perspectives and technologies, thus facilitating the negotiation of differing values. Here, we describe how values are conceptualized and negotiated within microbiome research. Analyzing discussions from a se…
Using Korean Dramas as a Precision Mental Health Education Tool for Asian Americans: A Pilot Study
Precision mental health (MH) holds great potential for revolutionizing MH care and reducing the burden of mental illness. Efforts to engage Asian Americans in precision MH research is necessary to help reduce MH disparities. Korean drama ("K-drama") television shows may be an effective educational tool to increase precision MH knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (KAB) among Asian Americans. This study determined whether KAB improved after partici…
Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health
Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to “reopen” economies while containing the spread of Covid‐19. Most digital contact tracing projects in the United States and Europe have prioritized privacy protections in the form of local storage of data on smartphones and the deidentification of information. However, in the prioritization of privacy in this narrow form, there is not sufficie…
Perspectives on Precision Health Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities and the Physicians That Serve Them
Engagement of racial/ethnic minority communities and the providers who serve them is important for advancing a precision health approach to addressing health disparities
Values and Practices to Strengthen Genetic Research Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
Genetic datasets lack diversity and include very few data from Indigenous populations. Research models based on equitable partnership have the potential to increase Indigenous participation and have led to successful collaborations. We report here on a meeting of participants in four Indigenous community-university partnerships pursuing research on precision medicine. The goal of the meeting was to define values and practices that strengthen oppo…
To Understand Inequity, Bioethics Needs to Sort Things Out
Bioethics is reexamining how to implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice concerns into scholarship. However, bioethicists should question the categories used to define diversity. The act of categorization is value laden, and classification systems confer power and benefits and generate harms. For example, what conditions count as disabilities? We should consider the equity implications of offering only “male” and “female” options for s…
Expanding the Agenda for a More Just Genomics
The integration of genomics into public health and medicine is happening at a faster rate than the accrual of the capabilities necessary to ensure the equitable, global distribution of its clinical benefits. Uneven access to genetic testing and follow‐up care, unequal distribution of the resources required to access and participate in research, and underrepresentation of some descent groups in genetic and clinical datasets (and thus uncertain gen…
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded Elsi’ in U.S. genomic medicine
Calls to identify, explore, and address ethical and social issues as part of the design and implementation of scientific research are now widespread. One way of doing so is through an embedded approach, where ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) researchers are situated within larger scientific research studies. We trace the emergence of the ‘embedded ELSI’ approach to integration alongside the development of genomic medicine. In partic…
Preventing Diffusion of Moral Responsibility in Big Team Science: Taking an Ecosystem Approach
Long‐standing frameworks for the ethics of biomedical research are being challenged on multiple fronts by seismic shifts in the way science is practiced. One such shift, which is the focus of “Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science,” by Susan Wolf and colleagues in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, is the evolution of biomedical research toward very large scientific teams. The aut…
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI
The ever-increasing attention to artificial intelligence applications in medicine and healthcare requires us to critically evaluate the effectiveness of the current U.S. regulatory environment in this arena. We outline a series of challenges facing the governance of healthcare AI, including an overreliance on self-regulation when many AI developers lack knowledge of relevant regulation or acknowledge their role in preventing harms, lack of shared…
Ethics in Clinical Research (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (4 works) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works)