Neurosurgery

Ashley Feinsinger, PhD

Ashley Feinsinger

Ashley Feinsinger, PhD
Assistant Professor

Hospital Affiliation
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Department of Neurosurgery
PO Box 956901
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6901

Contact: (310) 825-5111

EDUCATION

  • B.A., Philosophy and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
  • M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2009-2016)

RESEARCH AREA

Dr. Ashley Feinsinger is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Chair of the Ethics Education Theme in The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also affiliated faculty in The Center for Social Medicine. She is an NIH BRAIN Initiative and Dana Foundation funded researcher, and Principal Investigator of a neuroethics research lab which studies the ethics of invasive neural device research with humans through engagement with participants, disability populations, and clinician-researchers. By reexamining concepts such as “benefit”, “trust”, and “engagement” in emerging neural device research, her work aims to translate the values of patients, participants, and historically marginalized groups into ethical brain science. This work has been published in Neuron, AJOB Empirical Bioethics, AJOB Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Journal of Medical Ethics, and Neuroethics.

LINKS

https://www.uclahealth.org/departments/neurosurgery

https://www.feinsingerlab.com/

PUBLICATIONS 

  1. Dasgupta I, Klein E, Cabrera LY, Chiong W, Feinsinger A, Fins JJ, Haeusermann T, Hendriks S, Lázaro‑Muñoz G, Kubu C, Mayberg H, Ramos K, Roskies A, Sankary L, Walton A,  Widge AS, Goering S. “What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations”, (2024), Neuroethics 17, 22. DOI: 10.1007/s12152-024-09549-2
  2. Peabody Smith A, Feinsinger A. “Extending Patient-Centered Communication to Non-Speaking Intellectually Disabled Persons” online first, Journal of Medical Ethics. DOI: 10.1136/jme-2023-109671
  3. Levy L, Ebadi H, Peabody A, Taiclet L, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. “Disentangling function from benefit: Participant perspectives from an early feasibility trial for a novel visual cortical prosthesis”, (2023), AJOB Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2023.2257152
  4. Peabody Smith A, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. “Two Practices to Improve Informed Consent for Intraoperative Brain Research”, (2023) Neurosurgery. 92:5. PMID: 36700725 DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000002336
  5. Peabody Smith A, Taiclet L, Ebadi H, Levy L, Weber M, Caruso E, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. “‘They were already inside my head, to begin with’: Trust, Translational Misconception, and Intraoperative Brain Research”, (2022), AJOB Empirical Bioethics. pp. 1-14. PMID: 36137012 https://doi.org/10.1080/23294515.2022.2123869
  6. Feinsinger A, Pouratian N. “What ethical issues need to be considered when doing research with patients undergoing invasive electrode implantation?” in Intracranial EEG for Cognitive Neuroscience, (2023) ed. Nikolai Axmacher, Springer International Publishing.
  7. Pham M, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. “Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research”, (2022), Neuroethics. 15:25. PMID: 36092452 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-022-09502-1
  8. Feinsinger A, Pouratian N, Ebadi H, Adolphs R, Andersen R, Beauchamp MS, Chang EF, Crone E, Collinger J, Fried I, Mamelak A, Richardson M, Rutishauser U, Sheth SA, Suthana N, Tandon N, Yoshor D, on behalf of the NIH Research Opportunities in Humans Consortium. “Ethical Commitments, Principles, and Practices Guiding Intracranial Neuroscientific Research in Humans”, (2022), Neuron. 110:2, pp. 188-194. PMID: 35051364 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.11.011
  9. Ho E, Murrilla A, Davis L, Iraheta Y, Advani S, Feinsinger A, Waterman A. “Findings of Living donation experiences shared on a digital storytelling platform: A thematic analysis”, (2022), PEC Innovation. 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecinn.2022.100023
  10. Davis LA, Iraheta Y, Ho E, Murillo A, Feinsinger A, Waterman A. “Living kidneys donation stories and advice shared through a digital storytelling library: a qualitative thematic analysis”, (2022), Kidney Medicine, 4:7. PMID: 35755303 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100486
  11. Feinsinger A, Pham M, and Pouratian N. “The Value of Heterogeneity in Practices to Promote Ethical Research”, (2021), AJOB Neuroscience, 12:1, pp. 80-82. PMID: 33528338 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2020.1866116
  12. Farkas-Skiles CM, Feinsinger A, Pines R, Waterman AD. “Providers and Families Weigh in on Delays to Pediatric Kidney Transplant Wait-List Activation”, (2021), Progress in Transplantation. 32:1, pp. 41-48. PMID: 34894854 https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211064875
  13. Feinsinger A. “The Variation Problem”, (2021), Philosophical Studies, 178, pp. 317-338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01433-y
  14. Feinsinger A & Friedell D. “Medicalization and Linguistic Agency”, (2020), Ratio, 33:12, pp. 232-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12264
  15. Campelia G & Feinsinger A. “Making Space for Feminist Ethics in Medical School”, (2020), HEC Forum, 32, pp. 111-124. PMID: 32221818 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730-020-09403-x
  16. Feinsinger A. “The Semantic Lexicon and Analyticity”, (2012), UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Papers in Semantics, 16, pp. 51-68.