Bernard Lo

Biography

Dr. Bernard Lo is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF. He is National Program Director for the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. He serves on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee at NIH, which reviews gene transfer protocols. He also serves on the Data and Safety Monitoring Committees for diabetes prevention trials and a HIV vaccine trial at NIAID. He is a member of the Ethics Working Group of the NIH-sponsored HIV Prevention Trials Network, which carries out clinical trials in developing countries. He is co-Director of the Policy and Ethics Core of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF, which provides technical advice and consultation to researchers carrying out clinical research, including research in resource-poor nations.  Dr. Lo is a member of the Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards Working Group of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which is charged with issuing guidelines for stem cell research. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and serves on the IOM Council. He has been involved in a number of studies on ethical issues in human participants research carried out by the IOM and the National Academy of Science (NAS). He currently chairs a NAS/IOM Panel on Ethical Issues in Housing Research on Health Hazards for Children. He formerly chaired a IOM panel on confidentiality in health services research. He developed a course on Responsible Conduct of Research that 120 postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty take each year. He also carries out research on ethical issues in human participants research and other topics in bioethics

Research Interest

Clinical Sciences.