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  • Contributors

Paul S. Appelbaum is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Eric N. Avery is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and associate member of the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He is also a nationally known artist. His clinical work focuses on HIV psychiatry.

Howard Brody is John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. His most recent book is The Future of Bioethics (Oxford, 2009).

Alice Dreger is professor of medical humanities and bioethics in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is also a Guggenheim Fellow and a regular contributor to Bioethics Forum.

Susan Gilbert is staff writer at The Hastings Center. She wrote A Field Guide to Boys and Girls (HarperCollins, 2000), and has written for the New York Times and other publications.

Joyce A. Griffin is managing editor of the Hastings Center Report and IRB: Ethics & Human Research. She also writes and publishes fiction.

Gregory E. Kaebnick is a research scholar at The Hastings Center and editor of the Hastings Center Report.

Robert Klitzman is associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Charles W. Lidz is research professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Douglas J. Opel is a fellow at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Center and is an acting instructor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research interests focus on the interface of ethics and quality improvement.

Alicia Ouellette is an associate professor of law at Albany Law School and a professor of bioethics in the Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Jon Overvold works at HealthCare Chaplaincy and serves as the founding director of pastoral care and education at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York.

Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center. He studies how we use technologies to shape ourselves.

Anna B. Reisman, a general internist, is on faculty at Yale University School of Medicine.

Carl E. Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He coauthored a casebook on the law of bioethics and is on the President's Council on Bioethics.

David H. Smith directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University.

Martin L. Smith is director of clinical ethics at the Cleveland Clinic. His interests include ethics consultation, ethics committees, end-of-life issues, and religion and bioethics.

Benjamin S. Wilfond directs the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Center and is professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. His interests focus on research ethics, particularly as it relates to pediatrics and genetics. [End Page 52]

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