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.

Carol Tauer is professor of philosophy emerita at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minn., and is currently visiting professor at the Center for Bioethics of the University of Minnesota. She served on the National Institutes of Health’s Human Embryo Research Panel, which made ethical recommendations for federal funding of research on infertility, pre-implantation […]

Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch is a professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics and professor of nursing at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.  She wrote When the Bough Breaks: Parental Perceptions of Ethical Decision-Making in NICU.

Dr. Robert D. Orr is professor of bioethics at The Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program, professor of family medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and clinical ethicist at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt. He has been vice president of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities.

Dr. Geoffrey Miller is professor of pediatrics and neurology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. He wrote Extreme Prematurity: Practices, Bioethics and the Law (2007).

Dr. William Meadow is professor of pediatrics, assistant director of the McLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and co-author of Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation.

Laurence B. McCullough is professor of medicine and medical ethics and a core faculty member at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.  He is the author of “Neonatal Ethics at the Limits of Viability” in the October 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics and is co-author of the book Ethics […]

Mary Anderlik Majumder is assistant professor of medicine with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine.  She is co-editor of Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children.