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Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate
  • BHI

dianemk@uw.edu

Interests:

User-centered design, ethical issues in Big Data science, shared decision making, ethically informed genomic medicine, mHealth broadly construed (e.g. patient portals, smartphone applications, voice user interface/smart speakers particularly to support older and diverse populations), and health equity.

Background:

Dr. Korngiebel is a Senior Health Ethicist and AI Ethicist at Google where she focuses on identifying practical solutions to ethical dilemmas across a range of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in sensitive domains. Dr. Korngiebel’s work lies at the intersection of AI ethics, health ethics, and policy and practice, including implications for chatbots and personal assistants being designed to support physical and mental wellbeing. She has a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford, is certified in User-Centered Design through the University of Washington Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering’s program, completed a five-year NIH Career Development Award, and served as the Principal Investigator on two NIH grants conducting social sciences research on health-related decision support. Dr. Korngiebel is active in the American Medical Informatics Association, serving on several committees and working groups and mentoring early career scholars.

Research:

Dr. Korngiebel works at the intersection of bioethics, genomic medicine, and informatics. She is the PI on a grant whose aim is to identify and feasibility test a tool to support screening for heritable colorectal cancer (e.g., Lynch Syndrome) that can be deployed in low-resourced settings. She is also the PI on a grant that explores the ethical issues inherent in returning genetic test results to patients electronically using patient portals.

Representative publications:

  • Burke W, Korngiebel DM (co-first author). Closing the Gap between Knowledge and Clinical Application: Challenges for Genomic Translation. PLoS Genet. 2015 Feb 26;11(2):e1004978. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004978. eCollection 2015 Feb. Review. PMID: 25719903.
  • Korngiebel DM, Taualii M, Forquera R, Harris R, Buchwald D. Addressing the Challenges of Research with Small Populations. Am J Public Health. 2015 Sep;105(9):1744-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302783. Epub 2015 Jul 16. PubMed PMID: 26180955.
  • Korngiebel DM, Fullerton SM, and Burke W. Patient Safety in Genomic Medicine: An Exploratory Study. Genet Med. 2016 Mar 24. doi: 10.1038/gim.2016.16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27011058.
  • West KM, Burke W, Korngiebel DM. Identifying “ownership” through role descriptions to support implementing universal colorectal cancer tumor screening for Lynch syndrome. Genet Med. 2017 May 4. doi: 10.1038/gim.2017.39. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28471433.
  • Korngiebel DM, West KM, and Burke W. Clinician-Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Using Patient Portals to Return Lynch Syndrome Screening Results. J Genet Couns. 2017 Nov 21. doi: 10.1007/s10897-017-0179-3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29159545.