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M. Gregg Bloche is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Professor Bloche, who also received an M.D. from Yale University, specializes in health care financing law and policy. He has served as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization.

John T. Cacioppo, the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Psychology and the College at the University of Chicago, is also the cofounder of the Institute for Mind and Biology. He has served as President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for Consumer Research, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research.

David Cronin is an Assistant Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Chicago. He attended Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Cronin’s research interests include ethical issues in transplantation, including living liver donation.

Richard A. Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good, Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care?, Simple Rules for a Complex World, and Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. He is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute. [End Page S210]

Robert W. Fogel is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1993 for his work on the development of the “new economic history,” cliometrics. He has also served as President of the American Economic Association.

Lawrence O. Gostin is a Professor at Georgetown University School of Law and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. He is also Director of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Public Health: Power, Duty, Restraint and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader. He is also the Health Law and Ethics editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Mark A. Hall is the Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law and School of Medicine, and is an Associate in Management at the Babcock School of Management. He is the author or editor of 10 books on health care law and policy, including the Health Care Corporate Law series, Making Medical Spending Decisions, and Health Care Law and Ethics.

Louise C. Hawkley is a research scientist in the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of Chicago. A psychophysiologist by training, her research interests center on pathways that link thoughts, emotions, social interactions, and behaviors with physiological outcomes.

Edward O. Laumann is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Ogburn Stouffer Center for Population and Social Organization at the University of Chicago. He has served as the editor of the American Journal of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Dean of the Division of Social Sciences, and Provost of the University of Chicago. He also directed the National Health and Social Life Survey.

Wendy Levinson is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine and contributing editor to JAMA.

Stacy Tessler Lindau, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at the University of Chicago, studies human sexuality and its relationship to health throughout the life course. Her clinical and teaching practices also center on sexuality and health of underserved (low-income, minority, and older) women.

Sir Michael G. Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London. He is also Adjunct Professor of...

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