Background
Ossorio, Pilar Nicole was born on November 16, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Professional association administrator
Ossorio, Pilar Nicole was born on November 16, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Stanford University, California, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, California, 1990. Juris Doctor, Stanford University, 1997.
English as Second Language teacher Adult Education Program, Palo Alto, California, 1979-1980. English teacher Tainan First Girl's High School, Young Men's Christian Association, Republic of China, 1980-1982. Postdoctoral associate Yale University School Medicine, 1990—1993.
Special government employee, bioethics working group of the healthcare reform task force White House, Washington, 1993. Bioethics research associate, program on ethical, legal and social implications of the human genome project, United States Department Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1994. Committee on scientific freedom and responsibility American Association for the Advancement of Science, since 1994.
Summer associate Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, 1995, 1996. Law clerk, patent law group Morrison and Foerster LLP, Palo Alto, 1996—1997. Director, genetics section Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, 1997—2000.
Faculty associate, Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare (previously, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine) University Wisconsin, Madison, 2000—2002, assistant professor, law & bioethics (appointed at Law and Medical Schools), 2000—2005, program faculty, graduate program in population health, since 2004, associate professor law 7 bioethics, since 2006. Frequent ad hoc reviewer of grant proposals National Institutes of Health and Department Energy, since 1992. Member international board advisors Foundation for Genetic Medicine, 1998—2000.
Member advisory committee National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare, since 1999. Member steering committee to the secretary's committee on genetic testing United States Department Department of Health and Human Services, 1999—2000. Member national cancer policy board Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1999—2002, liaison to the committee on assessing the system for protecting human research subjects, 2000—2002.
Liaison to the committee on intellectual property rights National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2000—2003. Advisor, Latino Community Engagement Project Baylor University, since 2002. Advisor, Center for Devices and Radiological Health Food and Drug Administration, since 2002.
Participant Lasker Foundation Forum on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research and Practice, 2003. Advisory board member for Definitions of Merit Boalt Hall School Law, Berkeley, California, since 2003. Advisor The National Library Medicine, Bioethics Working Group, 2003—2004.
Member institutional review board University Wisconsin Medical School, since 2003. Advisor, Center for Excellence in Ethics Research Case Western Reserve University, since 2004. And several others; visiting professor law University California, Berkeley, since 2006.
Member advisory committee human embryonic stem cell research National Research Council and Institute Medicine, since 2006. Invited speaker and participant in study programs in the field.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science(member committee for scientific freedom and responsibility, 1994-2000, co-chair, working group on germ-line genetic intervention, 1998-2000, elected to national office as as member electorate nominating committee, 1998-2001, (national office) member-at-large representing the section on societal impacts of science and engineering, 2001-2004), American Association of Bioethics, International Association of Bioethics., Order of Coif.