Ph.D. Student Profile
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)
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
- 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