Dr. Stephen M. Modell is research area specialist and dissemination activities director at the Michigan Center for Genomics & Public Health and instructor in health management and policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is the author of “Genetic and Reproductive Technologies in the Light of Religious Dialogue” in the March 2007 Zygon: Journal of […]

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.

Dr. Bonnie J. Taylor is professor of pediatrics in the neonatology section at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and medical director of Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock. She has chaired the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee.

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.

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 […]