Contributors

A s i a n B i o e t h i c s R e v i e w M a r c h 2 0 0 9 Vo l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1 84 Akira AKABAYASHI is Director of the Department of Biomedical Ethics at University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. In June 2002, Dr. Akabayashi moved to the University of Tokyo while concurrently holding a post at Kyoto University. Professor Akira Akabayashi has written widely in biomedical ethics as well as psychosomatic illness and social medicine. Inez de BEAUFORT is Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands where she has been since 1991. She lectures in many ethics courses for lay persons, medical students, nurses, physicians and mixed audiences and is the author of papers on a wide variety of topics in medical ethics such as reproductive technology, euthanasia and end of life, beauty and ethics, paediatrics and ethics, fiction and medical ethics. She is currently a coordinator of the EU Project on obesity. Daniel BRUDNEY is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and a faculty member at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Hospitals. He is also the author of Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1998). CHAN Chee Khoon is a professor of health and social policy at the Women’s Development Research Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Bachelor and Master’s degrees in life sciences, and has a Doctor of Science degree in epidemiology from Harvard University. He was a founding board member of the International Society for Equity in Health, and has served on the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal for Equity in Health, Global Social Policy, and Global Health Promotion. His current research interests include emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, ethical and policy issues in science and technology, public health ethics, environment and development, and health systems in transition. Saima Perwaiz IQBAL is Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences at Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad teaching from the first to the fourth years. She was awarded a postgraduate diploma from the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture in Karachi in 2008. In addition to conducting her own research, she is actively engaged in teaching research skills to medical students as well as helping them design research protocols. Pinit RATANAKUL is the founding Director of the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University. He introduced the discipline of philosophy to the Thai university curriculum and is also a Buddhist scholar who initiated the study of Bioethics in Thailand and Southeast Asia some thirty years ago. Professor Ratanakul is currently promoting the study and research in the field of Buddhism-Science relations/dialogue as well as writing widely in the field of bioethics and Buddhism. D. Alan SHEWMON is professor of neurology and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and chief of neurology C O N T R I B U T O R S 84–85 Asian Bioethics Review March 2009 Volume 1, Issue 1 85 C o n t r i b u t o r s at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California. He has a special interest in philosophical-neurological interface issues such as brain death and the vegetative state, and is strongly critical of equating brain death with death. Lalaine SIRUNO is a PhD Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo. Before coming to Norway, she taught Philosophy at the University of the Philippines and did research on organ donation and the ethics of obesity and interventions. Her current project is on the philosophy of needs and capabilities. Beginning April she will be a visiting student at the Department of International Development in Oxford. Sarah Jane TOLEDANO is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman. She started teaching Bioethics after finishing her Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Applied Ethics at the Linkoping University, Sweden and Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is Training Coordinator for...