Dangers of misinterpretation and misapplication of genetic information and data

Philip (Phil) Rosoff is a physician and medical ethicist. He is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and a member of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, NC, USA. His research has focused on the moral dilemmas associated with preparing for a healthcare disaster (like pandemic influenza) as well as the philosophical and moral problems of genetic determinism, specifically with respect to behavioral genetics. While at the Foundation, he will be working on developing a scheme for the institutional micro-allocation of drugs and other medical supplies due to short-term and unanticipated scarcities. He will also be continuing his work on determinism by expanding to consider the historical and continuing attraction of biological (especially genetic) determinism as a form of (especially scientific) explanation for how people are what they are.