Dr. Harold Koenig is a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Duke University’s Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health. He wrote the white paper for the Department of Health and Human Services on faith-based responses to natural disasters and terrorism.

Don Downing is a clinical professor in the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. He has been involved with research about how pharmacists can improve women’s access to public health services, including contraception, and has trained pharmacists in Washington and across the U.S. to voluntarily prescribe emergency contraception, in states which allow that.

Susan W. Tolle is director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Valerie J. Vollmar is a law professor at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Ore. She can speak about how health professionals, including physicians and pharmacists, follow their consciences.

Lorie G. Rice is associate dean of external affairs of the School of Pharmacy at the University of California at San Francisco, where she teaches courses in pharmacy law and ethics. She is also former executive officer of the California State Board of Pharmacy. Listen to an April 23, 2005, NPR interview in which Rice explains how […]

Erin Jemison is executive director of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

Cathi Herrod is director of policy for the Center for Arizona Policy. The center says it supports “pro-family laws and values.” Contact communications director Aaron Baer.

Tom Van Hassel is the director of pharmacy at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, Ariz., and is president of the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy. He has also served on the board of the Arizona Pharmacy Alliance.

Ken Baum, a lawyer  in Santa Monica, Calif., argued for a balance between meeting the needs of patients and honoring pharmacists’ moral values in an article he co-wrote with his wife, Julie Cantor, also a lawyer and physician, for the Nov. 4, 2004, New England Journal of Medicine.