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Duane Alexander, M.D., is Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health and, since 1988, has attended meetings of the Committee on Bioethics as official observer from the United States.

Joy T. Boyer is Program Analyst in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH.

Martina Darragh, M.L.S., is a reference librarian at the National Center for Bioethics Literature, Georgetown University.

Dena S. Davis, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.

F. William Dommel, Jr., J.D., is Director of Education in the Office of Protection from Research Risks, Department of Health and Human Services, and has drafted, interpreted, and educated regarding the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects.

Michael Grodin, M.D., FAAP, is Professor and Director of the Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program of the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics, Sociomedical Sciences, Community Medicine, Public Health, Health Care Management, and Philosophy.

Harlan Lane, Ph.D., is Matthews University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and Research Affiliate, Speech Communications Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D., is Program Director for Bioethics Research in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program and Special Assistant to the Director for Trans-NIH ELSI Activities, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

Pat Milmoe McCarrick, M.L.S., is a reference librarian at the National Center for Bioethics Literature, Georgetown University.

Elizabeth J. Thomson, R.N., M.S., is Program Director for Clinical Genetics Research in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH.

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., is Faculty Associate at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as Co-Director of the Project on Informed Consent. He is also on the faculty of the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

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