Experts
PhD's, JD's, Judges, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in or related to ACLU issues. [Note: Experts definition varies by site]
Involvement and Affiliations:
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor, Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-present
Voted one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Healthcare magazine, 2008
Former Chair, Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, 2002
Voted Person of the Year by USA Today, 2001
Former Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration on Blood Safety and Availability, 1997-2001
Recipient of the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association, 1998
Former Member of the Clinton Health Care Task Force
Former Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy and Surgery, University of Minnesota, 1987-1994
Former Associate Director, Hastings Center, 1985-1987
Former Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1986
Former Associate for the Humanities, Hastings Center, 1977-1984
Former Instructor, Department of Medicine and School of Public Health, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1977-1981
Chairman of various panels for the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Holocaust Museum
Serves or has served as a consultant to: the International Olympic Committee, American Association of Blood Banks, American Foundation for AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, National Marrow Donor Program, Lifesource-Organ Procurement Organization, National Academy of Sciences-Institute of Medicine, and state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New York and New Jersey
Education:
PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, Columbia University, 1979
Cowritten with Amy Newburger: "Taking Ethics Seriously in Cosmetic Dermatology," Archives of Dermatology, Dec. 12, 2006
Cowritten with P.P. Reese, A. Kesselheim, and R.D. Bloom, "Creating a Medical, Legal and Ethical Framework for Complex Living Kidney Donors," Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Oct. 11, 2006
Cowritten with: Bernice Elger, "Consent and Anonymization in Research Involving Biobanks: Serious Barriers to an International Framework," EMBO Reports, July 7, 2006
"Ethical Issues Surrounding Forced, Mandated, or Coerced Treatment," Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, June 4, 2006
"No Method, Thus Madness?," Hastings Center Report, Apr. 1, 2006
Who Owns Life?, 2002
Finding Common Ground: Ethics and Assisted Suicide, 2001
Ethics and Organ Transplants, 1999
Am I My Brother's Keeper, 1998
Due Consideration: Controversy in an Age of Medical Miracles, 1997
Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling, 1993
If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas and Other Essays on Medical Ethics, 1992
When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust,1992
