Paige Cunningham is an attorney and educator who is the executive director of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in Deerfield, Ill.

Stephen Streed is director of chaplaincy for Eventide Lutheran Senior Communities, based in Moorhead, Minn. He can talk about the composition of the ethics committee at the home and about issues facing ethics committees in geriatric situations.

Daniel Schipani, professor of pastoral care and counseling at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind., has written about liberation theology and Biblical education and an Anabaptist perspective on liberation theology.

The Ohio Health Care Ethics Committees Information Project, run by Cleveland State University, has surveyed hospital ethics committees throughout the state twice.

Luis Rivera-Rodriguez, associate professor of theology and director of the Center for the Study of Latino/a Theology and Ministry at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, wrote the article on “Liberation Theology” in the Encyclopedia of Religion and War (Routledge, 2004).

Valarie Blake is a senior research associate at the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs in Chicago. She assists the council by researching ethics topics of medical interest and developing policy and responds to inquiries concerning AMA ethics policy.

Gerald Schlabach, Professor of Theology and Chair of the Department of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., has written about North American nonviolence and the Latin American liberation struggle, and on nonviolent action in Latin America.

David Orentlicher, a physician and lawyer, co-directs the health law program and teaches law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an expert in bioethics, health law, health-care planning and abortion and previously served as director of the American Medical Association’s Division of Ethics Standards.

Psychology professor Richard L. Wiener lead a research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that studied the impact of law on everyday behavior, the implementation of law in the legal system, and the fit between the law and assumptions about human conduct. The team has studied hospital ethics boards’ end-of-life recommendations.