Arthur Caplan, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Nov. 7, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 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:
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- PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, Columbia University, 1979
- MPhil, Columbia University, 1975
- MA, Columbia University, 1973
- BA, Brandeis University, 1971
- Other:
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- None Found
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