Ph.D. Student Profile

Ariella  Hoffman-Peterson, BA, MSL

Ariella Hoffman-Peterson, BA, MSL

  • PhD Candidate (2026)
  • Cognate: Sociology & Organizational Studies

Education

MSL, Masters of Science in Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2021)
BA, Northwestern University (2016)

Research Interests & Projects

Research Interests:

  • Ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics
  • Precision medicine access & policy
  • Health IT
  • Data privacy
  • Learning health systems
  • Medical device and pharmaceutical regulation
  • AI-enabled clinical decision support tools in healthcare
Projects:
  • Updating a maturity model of precision oncology: using qualitative methods to assess the maturity of precision oncology through interviews with industry and academic medical center professionals and patients (Advisor: Jodyn Platt, PhD)
  • Evaluating public attitudes towards healthcare AI to propose a regulatory framework to increase user transparency and trust: using survey, literature review, and public deliberations methodology to design more effective regulation of AI-enabled clinical decision support tools in healthcare (Advisor: Jodyn Platt, PhD)
  • Exploring how privacy attitudes towards company and government use of personal data are associated with having had a mail-in DNA test (Advisor: Denise Anthony, PhD)

Selected Publications

Please refer to Google Scholar

Additional Information

Affiliations:
  • AcademyHealth