Dr. Halverson is a faculty investigator at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and assistant professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.  He is a faculty member of the Bioethics and Participant Advocacy Program of the Indiana CTSI.

Dr. Halverson received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College. He went on to receive his master’s in Social Sciences and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Halverson completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at MacLean Center at the University of Chicago and another at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dr. Halverson's research interests include ethics and genetics, return of genetic and diagnostic testing results, health communication and linguistics, communicating risk and uncertainty, and patient education. Dr. Halverson employs ethnographic and other social scientific research methods as they pertain to clinical identity, diagnosis, and patient communication.

Recent Courses: 

GRDM - G504 - Introduction to Research Ethics 

Selected Guest Lectures: 

• “Return of Research Findings,” Indiana University Medical School
• “Mock Bioethics Meeting,” Indiana University Business School
• “Police Powers in the Clinic,” Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Indiana University Medical School
• “Hateful Patients,” Indiana University Medical School

Selected Publications:

• Halverson CME, Donnelly CE, Weiner M, Lee JL. (2023). Content Analysis of Emoji and Emoticon Use in Clinical Texting Systems. JAMA Network Open, 6(6):e2318140, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.18140
• Halverson CME, Penwell HL, Francomano CA. (2023). Clinician-associated traumatization from difficult medical encounters: Results from a qualitative interview study on the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes.Social Science & Medicine: Qualitative Research in Health, 3:100237. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100237
• Halverson C, Halley M. (2023). What is “Personal” About Personal Experience? A Call to Reflexivity for All. American Journal of Bioethics, 23(1): 39-41. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2146794
• Halverson CME, Kroenke K, Penwell HL, Francomano CA. (2022). Evolving attitudes toward numeric pain assessment among patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A qualitative interview study.Pain Medicine pnac167, DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnac167
• Halverson, CME. (2022). Genetic Essentialism and Social Warranting.Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 65(3):396-414. DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2022.0033

Additional Publications: PubMed

Funding:

NIH K01 Grant (PI)

$836,066 from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute 2022-2026

Description: Identify the contribution of a molecular diagnossis to the social validation of subjective symptoms such as pain and fatigue.

NL2 Grant (PI)

$164,400 from the IUSM / Clinical and Translational Research Institute 2022-2024

Description: Characterizing the diagnostic odysseys of hypermobile and classical Ehlers-Danlos populations.