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Lida Anestidou, DVM, M.S., is a veterinarian and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston. She is co-author, with E. Heitman, of "The Responsible Conduct of Animal Research" in the forthcoming Proceedings of A Research Conference on Research Integrity (U.S. Office of Research Integrity, 2002).

Mark P. Aulisio, Ph.D., is Director of the Clinical Ethics Program at Metro HealthMedical Center and Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Bioethics of Case Western Reserve University. His most recent work is as lead editor and contributor to Ethics Consultation: From Theory to Practice (forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

Ségolène Aymé is a medical geneticist and currently Director of Research at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris. She was President of the International Federation of Human Genetics Societies from 1997 to 1999 and is the current Chairperson of the Public and Professional Policy Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics, which is releasing recommendations and guidelines (http://www.eshg.org). She is a member of the ethics committee of INSERM.

Roberta M. Berry, J.D., is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Law, Science & Technology Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is now completing her dissertation on ethical and policy issues in human genetic engineering for the Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on legal, ethical, and policy questions associated with the life sciences and biotechnology.

Michael Bevins is an M.D./Ph.D. student at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He has published on end-of-life issues in The Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics and has written on patient noncompliance in Professing Medicine (AMA, 2002).

Robert H. Blank, Ph.D., currently holds the Chair of Public Policy at Brunel University in London. Previously, he taught in New Zealand and in the United States. Among his over 30 published books are Brain Policy (Georgetown, 1999) and Biology and Political Science (Routledge, 2001).

Charles L. Bosk, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a Faculty Associate in the Center for Bioethics and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He is the author of numerous articles and several books.

Paul Brodwin, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and Adjunct Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Matthew A. Butkus is a doctoral candidate in healthcare ethics at Duquesne University. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at St. Francis Health System. He teaches the ethics portion of the residency curriculum and has six articles in development with department faculty.

Amy T. Campbell, J.D., recently joined the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry as Senior Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry. She is the former Program Director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse. She has also worked in child health advocacy at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and in medical ethics with the Holy Redeemer Health System and the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.

Elizabeth Chaitin, D.H.C.E., is the Director of the Medical Ethics and Palliative Care Services Department and the Cochairperson for the Biomedical Ethics Committee at UPMC Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. She is also Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

A. M. Chakrabarty, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She has written over 230 publications in many leading biological journals.

Dean E. Cody, Ph.D., M.A.L.S., is a Medical Reference Librarian at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center Library. His research interest is in the area of end user search strategy development and evaluation, information literacy and critical thinking.

Erin A. Egan, M.D., J.D., is a Resident Physician...

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