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Bloss, Cinnamon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Director of Social Sciences and Bioethics
Scripps Translational Science Institute
Assistant Faculty-Research
Scripps Health
Dr. Bloss is an Associate Professor, as well as Director of Social Sciences and Bioethics at the Scripps Translational Science Institute. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is focused on investigating individuals’ behavioral and psychological responses to disclosure of personal genomic information. She is the lead researcher on STSI’s Scripps Genomic Health Initiative, and her work on this project was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and has been highlighted at a number of national and international scientific meetings. She has also presented invited testimony on consumer genomics before the Food and Drug Administration Advisory Panel.
Dr. Bloss’ other research interests include developing ways of combining genomics with traditional disease risk factors to make predictions about disease development, progression and response to treatment, as well as designing effective health interventions that leverage genomic information. She also conducts genetic association studies and has several collaborations to investigate the genetic underpinnings of neurological, behavioral, and other health-related phenotypes.
Dr. Bloss received her B.A. in Psychology from Smith College, her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and completed a predoctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Florida. Dr. Bloss completed a post-doctoral fellowship in statistical genetics and genomic medicine at The Scripps Research Institute.
At STSI, Dr. Bloss directs the Summer Undergraduate Research Internship and is an instructor in the TSRI Graduate Program. She is also a California-licensed clinical psychologist and has worked with adults and children with a wide range of neurological and psychiatric conditions.
To contact Dr. Bloss, please email: [email protected]