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S. MALIA FULLERTON,
PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: A-204M Health Sciences Building
Phone: 206-616-1864
Email: smfllrtn@u.washington.edu |
Bio | Recent
Publications | Recent Talks | Honors,
Awards, Grants | Courses | Curriculum Vita (PDF)
Stephanie Malia
Fullerton, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington School
of Medicine. She received a Postgraduate Diploma
(M.Sc.) in Human Biology and a DPhil in Human Population Genetics
from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She recently
completed postdoctoral training in the Ethical, Legal, and Social
Implications of human
genetics research at the Rock Ethics Institute
of the Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Fullerton served as a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
in the Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK, from
1995 to 1998, before returning to the US to pursue population genetics
research focused on identifying genetic contributions to cardiovascular
disease, at Penn State University, and non-insulin-dependent diabetes
mellitus, at the University of Chicago, from 1998 to 2002. Her scientific
publications have focused on the description and interpretation of
DNA sequence variation in specific human genes, and the relationship
of that variation to human evolutionary history and susceptibility
to common complex disease. In 2002, she was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein
National Research Service Award from the National Human Genome Research
Institute to re-train in ethical and social aspects of human genetics
at Penn State University. Her research in this area has focused on
the epistemological, ethical, and historical phenomena underlying
contemporary scientists' understandings of population-level genetic
variation and its relation to disease predisposition and health status.
Her broad research interests include scientific decision-making,
the relationship of basic research to clinical research and practice
(especially as it pertains to use of racial and/or ethnic identification),
and research ethics.
Recent Publications:
- Fullerton SM. "On the absence of biology in philosophical considerations
of race," in S. Sullivan and N. Tuana, eds., Race and Epistemologies
of Ignorance, SUNY Series on Philosophy and Race, R. Bernasconi
and T. D. Sharpley-Whiting eds., SUNY Press, in press.
- Buchanan
AV, Weiss KM, Fullerton SM. "Dissecting complex disease:
the quest for the philosopher’s stone?" with Peer Commentaries,
International Journal of Epidemiology. 2006, Advanced Access Mar 15.
- Weiss
KM, Fullerton SM. "Racing around, getting nowhere," Evolutionary
Anthropology. 2005, 14(5):165–169.
- Vander Molen
J, Frisse LM, Fullerton SM, Qian Y, del Bosque-Plata L, Hudson RR,
Di Rienzo A. "Population genetics of CAPN10 and
GPR35: implications for the evolution of type 2 diabetes variants," American
Journal of Human Genetics. 2005, 76(4): 548-560.
- Fullerton
SM, Buchanan AV, Sonpar VA, Taylor SL, Smith JD, Carlson CS, Salomaa
V, Stengård JH, Boerwinkle E, Clark AG, Nickerson
DA, Weiss KM. "The effects of scale: variation in the APOA1/C3/A4/A5
gene cluster," Human Genetics. 2004, 115(1): 36-56
- "Exploring the racial implications of the International HapMap
Project",
Institute for Public Health Genetics Seminar Series, University of
Washington, Seattle, November 2005
- “Haplotypes and half-breeds: ways in which variation
is being reconfigured in the post-genomic era,” Cornell University
STS Science Studies Research Group Spring Series, Ithaca, April 2005
- “Negotiating complexity: common disease and diverse genomes,”
NHGRI ELSI Genetic Variation Consortium Meeting, Bethesda, July 2004
- “Where ancestry and environment collide: race in biomedical
context.” Rush
Institute for Healthy Aging, Chicago, May 2004
- “
Genetic correlates of racial and/or ethnic identity and their implications
for biomedical research” (with KM Weiss). Special Invited Session
on the Genetics of Race, American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting,
Orlando, March 2004
- “The Haplotype Map project: refiguring the genome with respect
to population (and politics).” Science, Medicine, and Technology
in Culture Series, Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University,
November
2003
- “From population to individual: identifying genetic contributions
to complex disease”. Invited Session on Issues in the Use of
Demographic Surveys to Define Population Genetics, Population Association
of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, May 2003
Awards, Honors and Grants Received:
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH F32-HG002629, "Negotiating
Complexity: Common Disease and Diverse Genomes", 2002-2005
- Invited Participant, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative conference
on ‘The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and Control
of Infectious Disease’, Irvine, CA, November 2005
- Invited Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities ‘Science
and Values’ Summer Institute, Department of History and Philosophy
of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
Courses:
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PHG 590A, Human Genomics: Science,
Ethics, and Society (Spring 2006)
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