Dr. Alison Antes is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences and Assistant Director of the Bioethics Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). She is an industrial-organizational psychologist with expertise in ethical decision-making, leadership, and research integrity. Her research focuses on responsible conduct in research and leadership in research. Dr. Antes teaches in the areas of research ethics, ethics in biostatistics, and leadership. She completed her PhD at the University of Oklahoma.

Jillon S. Vander Wal is a Licensed Psychologist with the Kansas City VA Medical Center. Dr. Vander Wal completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Missouri—Columbia with post-doctoral training at the University of Illinois-Chicago.  She is a former Full Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the APA-accredited Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Program at Saint Louis University where she served as Director of the Weight Eating and Lifestyle Lab and as a member of the Institutional Review Board. Dr. Vander Wal has had NIH, industry, and private funding with over 100 publications and over 150 presentations. Dr. Vander Wal’s clinical areas of expertise include the evidence-based treatment of psychological disorders. Her program of research includes disorders of eating and weight regulation, health behaviors, psychological measurement, and professional issues.

Tammy English, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the Director of the Emotion and Relationships Lab and Associate Director of the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences (TRIADS). Her federally funded research examines emotion and emotion regulation across adulthood into old age. She also serves on the Danforth Campus Committee of Research Integrity. Dr. English received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

Emily Schenk manages the Washington University School of Medicine’s Bioethics Research Center’s education programs: the P.I. Program and Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course. She possesses two decades of experience at Washington University as a clinical research project coordinator, assisting with project design and coordination of behavioral and psychosocial research projects. She possesses skills in the areas of study recruitment, interviewing, program management, patient education, qualitative data analysis, stakeholder and community engagement, and quality improvement and event organization.