Table 1 Who's who—new bioethics appointees
From: Obama appoints bioethics panel to offer practical advice
Panel member | Group | Post |
|---|---|---|
Lonnie Ali | Advocate | Wife of former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is an advocate for research on Parkinson's disease |
Anita L. Allen | Academic | Professor of law and philosophy and also deputy dean at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and senior fellow in the Bioethics Department, School of Medicine; served in the 1990s on the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research |
John D. Arras | Academic | Porterfield professor of biomedical ethics and professor of philosophy at the University of Vierginia; longtime fellow of the Hastings Center |
Barbara Atkinson | Academic | Executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center and executive dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine |
Nita A. Farahany | Academic | Associate professor of law and philosophy at Vanderbilt University; focuses on legal, philosophical and social issues arising from developments in behavioral genetics and neuroscience |
Alexander Garza | Government | Assistant secretary for health affairs and chief medical officer for the Department of Homeland Security; specialized in emergency medicine |
Christine Grady | Government | Acting chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center; focuses on research subject recruitment, incentives and vulnerability |
Stephen L. Hauser | Academic | Professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco; focuses on the genetic and immune basis of multiple sclerosis |
Raju Kucherlapati | Academic | Professor in the Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics and the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital; was the first scientific director of the Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics |
Nelson Michael | Academic | Director of the Division of Retrovirology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; directs the US Military HIV Research program |
Daniel Sulmasy | Academic | Franciscan Friar and chair in medicine and ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School, and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago |
