Barbara A. Koenig, PhD

Professor of Medical Anthropology & Bioethics Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Health & Aging, UCSF

barbara.koenig@ucsf.edu

Phone: (415) 476-3786

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Education

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,    BS with distinction,    1974,    Nursing
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,    BA magna cum laude,    1976,    Asian History
University of California, San Francisco & Berkeley,    Ph.D.,    1988,    Medical Anthropology
 

Professional Experience

• 1986-88
  Adjunct Lecturer, Division of Medical Ethics, Dept of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Francisco.
• 1988-93
  Assistant Adjunct Professor, Medical Anthropology Program/Division of Medical Anthropology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
• 1989-91
  Coordinator for Western Programs in Research and Education, The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
• 1993-99
  Senior Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 1993-02
  Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 1999-03
  Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (Acting 99-00).
• 2003-05
  Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 2005-11
  Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN.
• 2006-09
  Co-Director, Program in Professionalism and Bioethics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
• 2009-11
  Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN.
• 2011-present
  Professor of Medical Anthropology & Bioethics, Depts. of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology, History & Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

Honors & Awards

• 1995
  Elected Fellow, The Hastings Center
• 1995
  Elected Fellow, The Society for Applied Anthropology
• 1998
  Individual Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center
• 2002-03
  Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
• 2008
  M. Margaret Clark Memorial Lectureship, University of California, San Francisco
• 2009
  Named as one of the "top 100" graduates, University of Minnesota School of Nursing Centenary
• 2009
  "Curtis R. Holzgang Visiting Scholar" Providence Center for Health Care Ethics with Providence Health & Services, Portland, OR.
• 2011
  DeVos Medical Ethics Lectureship, Grand Rapids, MI
• 2012
  Research Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland (January to March)

Selected Publications

1. Koenig BA. Fixing research subjects protection in the United States: moving beyond consent. Mayo Clin Proc. 2013 May; 88(5):428-30.
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2. Koenig BA. Addiction science, meet translational genomics. Addiction. 2012 Dec; 107(12):2079-80.
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3. Hammer RR, Dingel MJ, Ostergren JE, Nowakowski KE, Koenig BA. The experience of addiction as told by the addicted: incorporating biological understandings into self-story. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2012 Dec; 36(4):712-34.
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4. Wolf SM, Crock BN, Van Ness B, Lawrenz F, Kahn JP, Beskow LM, Cho MK, Christman MF, Green RC, Hall R, Illes J, Keane M, Knoppers BM, Koenig BA, Kohane IS, Leroy B, Maschke KJ, McGeveran W, Ossorio P, Parker LS, Petersen GM, Richardson HS, Scott JA, Terry SF, Wilfond BS, Wolf WA. Managing incidental findings and research results in genomic research involving biobanks and archived data sets. Genet Med. 2012 Apr; 14(4):361-84.
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5. James KM, Cowl CT, Tilburt JC, Sinicrope PS, Robinson ME, Frimannsdottir KR, Tiedje K, Koenig BA. Impact of direct-to-consumer predictive genomic testing on risk perception and worry among patients receiving routine care in a preventive health clinic. Mayo Clin Proc. 2011 Oct; 86(10):933-40.
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6. Mueller PS, Ottenberg AL, Hayes DL, Koenig BA. "I felt like the angel of death": role conflicts and moral distress among allied professionals employed by the US cardiovascular implantable electronic device industry. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2011 Dec; 32(3):253-61.
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7. Kramer DB, Ottenberg AL, Gerhardson S, Mueller LA, Kaufman SR, Koenig BA, Mueller PS. "Just Because We Can Doesn't Mean We Should": views of nurses on deactivation of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2011 Dec; 32(3):243-52.
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8. Dingel MJ, Hicks AD, Robinson ME, Koenig BA. Integrating genetic studies of nicotine addiction into public health practice: stakeholder views on challenges, barriers and opportunities. Public Health Genomics. 2012; 15(1):46-55.
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9. McGuire AL, Basford M, Dressler LG, Fullerton SM, Koenig BA, Li R, McCarty CA, Ramos E, Smith ME, Somkin CP, Waudby C, Wolf WA, Clayton EW. Ethical and practical challenges of sharing data from genome-wide association studies: the eMERGE Consortium experience. Genome Res. 2011 Jul; 21(7):1001-7.
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10. Ottenberg AL, Wu JT, Poland GA, Jacobson RM, Koenig BA, Tilburt JC. Vaccinating health care workers against influenza: the ethical and legal rationale for a mandate. Am J Public Health. 2011 Feb; 101(2):212-6.
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11. Kaufman SR, Mueller PS, Ottenberg AL, Koenig BA. Ironic technology: Old age and the implantable cardioverter defibrillator in US health care. Soc Sci Med. 2011 Jan; 72(1):6-14.
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12. Clayton EW, Smith M, Fullerton SM, Burke W, McCarty CA, Koenig BA, McGuire AL, Beskow LM, Dressler L, Lemke AA, Ramos EM, Rodriguez LL. Confronting real time ethical, legal, and social issues in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Consortium. Genet Med. 2010 Oct; 12(10):616-20.
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13. Orme NM, Fletcher JG, Siddiki HA, Harmsen WS, O'Byrne MM, Port JD, Tremaine WJ, Pitot HC, McFarland EG, Robinson ME, Koenig BA, King BF, Wolf SM. Incidental findings in imaging research: evaluating incidence, benefit, and burden. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Sep 27; 170(17):1525-32.
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14. Gundle KR, Dingel MJ, Koenig BA. 'To prove this is the industry's best hope': big tobacco's support of research on the genetics of nicotine addiction. Addiction. 2010 Jun; 105(6):974-83.
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15. Caulfield T, Fullerton SM, Ali-Khan SE, Arbour L, Burchard EG, Cooper RS, Hardy BJ, Harry S, Hyde-Lay R, Kahn J, Kittles R, Koenig BA, Lee SS, Malinowski M, Ravitsky V, Sankar P, Scherer SW, Séguin B, Shickle D, Suarez-Kurtz G, Daar AS. Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges. Genome Med. 2009; 1(1):8.
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16. Tilburt JC, Mueller PS, Ottenberg AL, Poland GA, Koenig BA. Facing the challenges of influenza in healthcare settings: the ethical rationale for mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination and its implications for future pandemics. Vaccine. 2008 Sep 12; 26 Suppl 4:D27-30.
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17. Lee SS, Mountain J, Koenig B, Altman R, Brown M, Camarillo A, Cavalli-Sforza L, Cho M, Eberhardt J, Feldman M, Ford R, Greely H, King R, Markus H, Satz D, Snipp M, Steele C, Underhill P. The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics. Genome Biol. 2008; 9(7):404.
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18. Griffin MD, Koenig BA, Schears RM. Topics in transplant ethics. Transplant Rev (Orlando). 2008 Jul; 22(3):151-3.
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19. Siddiki H, Fletcher JG, McFarland B, Dajani N, Orme N, Koenig B, Strobel M, Wolf SM. Incidental findings in CT colonography: literature review and survey of current research practice. J Law Med Ethics. 2008; 36(2):320-31, 213.
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20. Wolf SM, Lawrenz FP, Nelson CA, Kahn JP, Cho MK, Clayton EW, Fletcher JG, Georgieff MK, Hammerschmidt D, Hudson K, Illes J, Kapur V, Keane MA, Koenig BA, Leroy BS, McFarland EG, Paradise J, Parker LS, Terry SF, Van Ness B, Wilfond BS. Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: analysis and recommendations. J Law Med Ethics. 2008; 36(2):219-48, 211.
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