Dr. Joseph A. Garcia-Prats is professor of pediatrics and professor of medical ethics in the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He is also medical director of the Arnold J. Rudolph Memorial Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston.

Dr. Richard Gunderman is associate professor in the department of philosophy, vice chairman of radiology and director of pediatric radiology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is also co-author of “Ethics and the Limits of Neonatal Viability” in the August 2005 issue of the journal Radiology.

Jessica Wilen Berg is professor of law and bioethics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she has a joint appointment in the School of Law and the department of bioethics at the Medical School. Her writings include “Of Elephants and Embryos: A Proposed Framework for Legal Personhood,” forthcoming in Hastings Law Journal; and “You say person, […]

Mark A. Rothstein holds the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and is director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is co-editor of Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children.

Dr. Brian S. Carter is professor of pediatrics in the division of neonatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. His research and teaching interests include clinical ethics. He is author of “Ethical Issues in Neonatal Care” on e-Medicine and co-editor of Palliative Care for Infants, Children and Adolescents: A Practical Handbook.

Kathy Kinlaw is acting director of the John and Susan Wieland Center for Ethics and Bioethics at Emory University in Atlanta and associate in the department of pediatrics at the Emory Medical School. She is also executive director of the Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia. Neonatal and perinatal ethics is one of her research […]

Dr. Robin W. Doroshow is professor of pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is co-author of “Treatment Decisions for Newborns at the Threshold of Viability: An Ethical Dilemma” in the September 2000 Journal of Perinatology.

Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco is assistant professor of biology and instructor of theology at Providence College in Providence, R.I. He is also a Catholic priest and Dominican friar. His writings include “Are Teratomas Embryos or Non-Embryos? A Criterion for Oocyte-Assisted Reprogramming” in the winter 2005 issue of The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.

Dr. Jon E. Tyson is a professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He is the author of “Evidence-Based Ethics and the Care of Premature Infants” in the spring 1995 issue of the journal The Future of Children.