Professionalism in the Academic Medical Center – "Bioethics as it Relates to In Vivo Imaging"

Jalayne J. Arias, JD, MA is an Assistant Professor in the Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology and an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute. Her research integrates empirical legal, qualitative, and health services research methods to better understand the legal and ethical challenges that are inherent to biomarker testing in Alzheimer’s disease and the provision of dementia care. Ms. Arias has advanced training as a clinical ethicist (Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic, 2013) and served as a clinical ethicist as a staff member of the Department of Bioethics (Cleveland Clinic, 2013-2016).  She is the principal investigator for three ongoing studies, including  Legal, Ethical, & Social Analysis of Preclinical Biomarker Tests in AD (Alzheimer’s Association).  Ms. Arias received her Juris Doctor degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU). She holds a law degree and a Master’s degree in Bioethics, and was Associate Director of the NeuroEthics Program at Cleveland Clinic before joining the faculty at UCSF.

 Topics to be addressed will include:

·         Frameworks for proper consent and assent in imaging studies

·         Approaches to managing incidental findings, and

·         Strategies for disclosing results of imaging studies to clinicians, patients, and research subjects in the context of privacy protections.