Executive Committee

  • George Hightower, MD, PhD

    Director

  • Dorothy Tamayo-Murillo, MD

    Associate Director

  • Noah Choi

    Programs Lead

    Head of Web Design

  • Kaitlyn Lew

    Project Manager

  • Ann Nguyen

    Communications Coordinator

  • Sawye Raygani

    Advisory Board Liaison

  • Ritvik Illindala

    Program Content Manager

  • Savannah Fakhouri

    Narrative Medicine and Ethics Lead

  • Abigail Urbina

    Exploring Ethics Forum Coordinator

  • Safia Hassan

    Action Forward Lead

  • Katie Lock

    Projects Quality Assurance

  • Khando Thoulutsang

    Undergraduate Student Engagement Lead

  • ​Nicollette Pepin

    Post Baccalaureate Engagement Lead

  • Rithik Kumar

    Stakeholder Liaison

Advisory Board

  • John H. Evans, PhD

    Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences, UC San Diego ​

    Associate Dean of Social Sciences, UC San Diego ​

    Co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics

  • Kim Kamdar, PhD

    Chair of the board of directors of Aspen Neuroscience ​

    Co-founder and Chair of Seraphina Therapeutics and Truvian Sciences

  • Joe Panetta MPH

    President and CEO - Biocom

  • Stephanie A. Rico, PhD

    Science Educator

  • Jeffrey Roberts, PhD

    Dean of College of Sciences at San Diego State University 

  • Sandra A. Sgoutas-Emch, PhD

    Professor of Psychological Sciences, University of San Diego

    Director of the Center for Educational Excellence, University of San Diego

  • Alberto Vasquez, PhD

    Academic Coordinator, Center for Research in Educational Equity and Teaching (CREATE)​

  • Rebekah Yohe-Lawrence

    Former Ethics Center Executive Board Member