BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EDUCATION

 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Certificate in Mixed Methods Research, 2020

 

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH

Juris Doctor (Concentration in Health Law and Policy) and Master of Arts in Bioethics, 2016

 

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH     

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 2013

 

The University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anglo-American Law Program, Summer 2012

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA February 2020 - Present

Program Officer, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology

• Provides coordination and strategic oversight of research projects in the fields of genetics, neurodegenerative disease, brain aging, and ethics

• Evaluates the legal, ethical, and regulatory questions associated with genetic data sharing and predictive testing for neurodegenerative illnesses.

• Collaborates with principal investigators in genetics and law-ethics to strategize program development and build multi-disciplinary collaborations that bridge these fields

• Coordinate recruitment of human subjects for research studies, including screening and consenting participants

• Performs independent data collection, systematic review, and qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods data analysis

• Provides oversight and coordination of research grant programs, including program development, planning and evaluation, peer review and applicant relations, grant application and award management, and synthesis and dissemination of research findings

• Manages a multi-year, cloud-based data sharing and storage platform evaluation project to assess and guide platform growth and improvement to meet the needs of a research consortium 

 

Beaumont Health, Detroit, MI September 2017 – January 2020

Clinical Ethicist; Instructor, Department of Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

• Provide clinical ethics consultation services for Beaumont Health’s eight campuses in the metro Detroit area 

• Serve as training faculty for Beaumont Health system ethics consultants

• Contribute to strategic development of high-quality ethics consultation standards, practices and procedures through the Beaumont system

• Co-direct clinical ethics services and standardization for service sites within the Beaumont system

• Review, revise, and develop new ethics-related policies

• Conduct ethical analyses on special topics as requested by Beaumont administration and leadership

• Support strategic development of system-wide initiatives in advance care planning

• Participate in clinical ethics teaching to staff, faculty, and trainees

• Provide ethics advisory service to Institutional Review Board

• Develop ethics curriculum for medical student rotations in clinical ethics and palliative care medicine

• Precept 4th year medical student rotations for clerkship in clinical ethics and palliative care medicine

• Screen and interview applicants for admission to Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

• Collaborated on a county task force consisting of hospital representatives and commercial guardian representatives to develop guidelines and standards for commercial guardians and county probate judges relating to commonly encountered issues with hospitalized patients who have commercial guardians

 

 

Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA September 2016 – August 2017

Clinical Ethics Fellow, Program for Medicine and Human Values, California Pacific Medical Center, 

• Provided clinical ethics consultation services for California Pacific Medical Center’s three campuses within San Francisco under the supervision of Sutter Health’s Senior Bioethicist 

• Co-led monthly Medical Ethics Committee Meetings with the Committee’s physician Chair

• Developed educational programming and content for clinicians, residents, and other healthcare providers

• Advised senior level management, case managers and care coordinators on complex patient management

• Collaborated with senior medical leadership in identifying and problem-solving system-wide organizational ethical issues

• Contributed to quarterly department-sponsored bioethics newsletters and academic articles

 

 

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH December 2014 – May 2015, October 2015 – August 2016

Legal Research Assistant and Study Coordinator, NeuroEthics Program, Department of Bioethics

• Analyzed and compiled legal research examining ethical, social, legal, and policy issues relevant to the preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on the documentation of diagnostic tests in patients’ medical record

• Developed methodologies for a fifty-state survey analysis of state discrimination laws relevant to employment, insurance, and disability

• Composed memos analyzing implications of legal sources and contributed to project manuscripts, reports, and presentations for international audiences and conferences

• Analyzed and format data examining patient perceptions of physicians with conflicts of interest, and levels of patient confidence and trust in institutions that house those physicians

• Analyzed and format data examining primary care patients' preferences for individualized preventive care recommendations

• Piloted patient conversation guidelines with clinicians to ascertain best practices for emerging applications of noninvasive prenatal testing and pregnant women and their partners’ decision-making regarding testing

 

 

 

 

 

University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH August 2015 – December 2015

Compliance and Ethics Department Law Clerk

• Developed strategies for implementing the assimilation of hospital policies for newly acquired hospitals into the University Hospitals system

• Collaborated with regional compliance officers and human resources staff to address employment disputes within the hospital system and recommend corrective actions

• Advised the Chief Compliance Officer on legal issues and federal regulations relating to aspects of hospital operations and risk management concerns

• Advised Director of Compliance and regional compliance officers on best practices regarding claim denials management and other issues with payers

 

 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC June 2015 – August 2015

IRB and Research Ethics Intern

• Participated in IRB meetings at NIEHS and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and conducted and participated in seminars on legal and ethical issues in human subjects research regulations and institutional compliance

• Within a small research team, empirically examined and reviewed authorship and authentication policies for various academic journals, seeking to discern the implications of these policies on researchers’ intellectual property and ethical research practices in the field

• Collaborated in the implementation of a variety of federal research compliance initiatives such as document review, development of investigator and project evaluations based on National Institutes of Health standards of procedure, and forensic review of STOCK Act compliance and financial disclosures

 

 

LICSENSURE/CERTIFICATION

 

2018 - Present The State Bar of California, No. 320142

 

 

PUBLICATIONS 

 

Jalayne J. Arias, Ana M. Tyler, Laura Beskow, Maria C. Carillo, Susan Dickinson, Jill Goldman, Mary A. Majumder, Michelle M. Mello, Heather M. Snyder, and Jennifer S. Yokoyama. Data stewardship in FTLD research: Investigator and research participant views. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Apr;20(4):2886-2893. doi: 10.1002/alz.13719. Epub 2024 Mar 8. PMID: 38456576; PMCID: PMC11032535.

Jing Li, Hannah Bancroft, Krista L. Harrison, Julia Fox, Ana M. Tyler, and Jalayne J. Arias. Out-of-Pocket Expenses for Long-Term Care by Dementia Status and Residential Setting among US Older Adults. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2024 Jan;25(1):47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2023.09.010. Epub 2023 Oct 17. PMID: 37863109; PMCID: PMC10872450.

Jalayne J. Arias, Grace A. Lin, Ana M. Tyler, Michael P. Douglas, and Kathryn A. Phillips, Geriatricians’ perspectives on the multiple dimensions of utility of genetic testing for Alzheimer’s disease: a qualitative study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2022;90(3):1011-1019. doi: 10.3233/JAD-220674. PMID: 35871355; PMCID: PMC9712158.

Jalayne J. Arias, Ana M. Tyler, Michael P. Douglas, and Kathryn A. Phillips, Private payer coverage policies for ApoE-e4 genetic testing. Genet. Med. 2021;23(4):614-620. doi:10.1038/s41436-020-01042-4.

Ana M. Tyler, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, and Jalayne J. Arias. Personal Utility and Early Intervention in Alzheimer's Disease. AJOB Neurosci. 2021 Oct-Dec;12(4):226-228. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2021.1941411. PMID: 34704901.

Michael S. Malian and Ana M. Tyler, “The Ethical Obligation to Look Beyond Informed Consent,” Critical Connections (Society of Critical Care Medicine), https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Crit ical-Connections/Archives/2019/The-Ethical-Obligation-to-Look-Beyond-Informed-Con, February 1, 2019.

Jalayne J. Arias, Ana M. Tyler, Benjamin J, Oster, and Jason Karlawish, The Proactive Patient: Long-term Care Insurance Discrimination Risks of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers, J. Law Med Ethics, 46 (2018): 485-498.

 

David B. Resnik, Ana M. Tyler, Jennifer R. Black, and Grace E. Kissling, Authorship Policies of Scientific Journals, J. Med Ethics, http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2015/12/28/medethics-2015-103171.full, December 29, 2015.

 

 

REGIONAL AND LOCAL PRESENTATIONS

 

“Talking Turkey” Panel: Advance Care Planning Communication Strategies for Diverse Patient Populations, Beaumont Health, Southfield, MI (November 13, 2019).

 

Robert J. McClowry and Ana M. Tyler, LGBTQ+ Health Disparities and Providing Competent Care, Beaumont Grosse Pointe Diversity Committee Lunch and Learn, Beaumont Health, Grosse Pointe, MI (June 21, 2019).

 

Ana M. Tyler and Robert J. McClowry, An LGBTQ+ Primer for Ethics Consultants and Other Health Professionals in Providing Compassionate and Competent Care, Ethics Education Teleconference, Beaumont Health Ethics Consultation Service, Grosse Pointe, MI (June 19, 2019).

 

Responding to Requests for Non-Beneficial Treatments, 4th Annual Primary Palliative Care Conference, Dearborn, MI (September 28, 2018).

 

Advance Care Planning for Chronically Ill Adults, Parkinson’s Support Group, Michigan Parkinson’s Foundation, Dearborn, MI (June 13, 2018).

 

Advance Care Planning, American Automobile Association Lunch and Learn, Dearborn, MI (April 17, 2018).

 

Advance Care Planning, Beaumont Commons Assisted Living Facility, Dearborn, MI (April 10, 2018).

 

Responding to Requests for Non-Beneficial Treatments, General Competency Grand Rounds, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn, MI (April 4, 2018).

 

A Practical Approach to Ethical Decision Making, with Dr. L. Fischetti, PhD, General Competency Series, Beaumont Hospital, Wayne, MI (March 28, 2018).

 

Responding to Ethical Issues During Residency and Ethical Issues in PICC Line Discharges for IVDU Patients, Internal Medicine Resident Academic Half-Day, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn, MI (March 14, 2018).

 

Advance Care Planning, The Lake House Cancer Advocacy Group, St. Clair Shores, MI (March 13, 2018).

 

Advance Care Planning, Melvindale Commons Assisted Living Facility, Melvindale, MI (December 19, 2017).

 

A Practical Approach to Ethical Decision Making, with Dr. L. Fischetti, PhD, General Competency (Resident Education), Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn, MI (November 15, 2018).

 

Ethical Issues with Implementation of Advance Directives and POLSTs in Patient Care, House Staff Noon Conference, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (June 22, 2017).

 

Implementing Effective Communication Tools: Caring For Challenging Patients, “Say It Right the First Time: A Blueprint For Communication in Ethically Challenging Situations,” Summer Workshop XII, Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA (June 10, 2017).

 

Translational Skills in Mediation and Clinical Ethics Consultations, Fellows’ Seminar, Program in Medicine and Human Values, Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA (June 7, 2017).

 

What To Do When The Patient Lacks Capacity, Sutter Health Bay Area, San Francisco, CA (April 5, 2017, http://www.cpmc.org/services/ethics/events.html#Ethics WebEx Conferences)

 

Responding to Requests for Non-Beneficial Treatments, House Staff Noon Conference, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (March 30, 2017).

 

Responding To A Patient’s Refusal of Treatments When The Fetus Is At Risk, Obstetrics & Gynecology Grand Rounds, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (February 28, 2017).

 

Refusal of Treatments, Noon Conference, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (February 13, 2017).

 

Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients, House Staff Noon Conference, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (January 31, 2017).

 

 

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES

 

Carl V. Tyler, Kristen Henry, and Ana M. Tyler, How To Provide Expert Evaluations for Guardianship, American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry One Voice Conference, Phoenix, AZ (June 6, 2025).

 

Tau Consortium Open Data Sharing Platform: Platform Implementation and Practical Future Use, Tau Consortium Investigator’s Meeting, Irving, TX (July 18, 2022). Presented as part of a panel, Data Sharing and The Tau Consortium, with moderator Jennifer S. Yokoyama and panelists Kathryn Bowles and Juliana Acosta Uribe.

 

Margot M. Eves, Shaylona Kirk, Shilpa Shashidhara, Ana M. Tyler, Moral Distress: Relief Through Debrief, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (October 26, 2019).

 

Robert J. Fulbright, Ruchika Mishra, Jordan Potter, Ana M. Tyler, Decision Making for the Unrepresented Patient: From Coast to Coast, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (October 24, 2019).

 

Robert J. Fulbright, Ruchika Mishra, Shilpa Shashidhara, Ana M. Tyler, Non-Beneficial Treatments: Across State Lines, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA (October 20, 2018).

 

The Duty To Warn In Genetics: When Benefits To Third Parties Override Patient Autonomy, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Houston, TX (October 25, 2015).

 

Jalayne J. Arias, Ana M. Tyler, and Jason Karlawish, Legal Consequences and Protections: Challenges for Documenting Preclinical Biomarkers in Patients’ Medical Records, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2015) (presented by Jalayne Arias).