Dr. Ruth M. Farrell is a Cleveland physician with a background in bioethics and philosophy. She is particularly interested in assisted reproductive technologies and treatments for infertility patients. Farrell serves on numerous hospital quality assurance and ethics committees. She founded the obstetrics and gynecology residents’ ethics curriculum at the University Hospital of Cleveland.

Dawn H. Seery is a system ethicist for Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus and serves on the board of trustees for the Bioethics Network of Ohio. Dawn has been involved in hospital ethics committees since the 1980s. Her background includes critical care and palliative care education and management. Her graduate degree is in bioethics and […]

Baruch A. Brody is a professor of biomedical ethics and the former director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Christine E. Gudorf, professor of religious studies at Florida International University in Miami, has written about the issues of integrating ethics into hospital care. She teaches a course on reproductive ethics and wrote a chapter on contraception and abortion among Catholics for the book Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions.

Philip A.D. Schneider, professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Coastal Carolina University, wrote a paper on his study of 12 hospital ethics committees in eastern South Carolina.

Kenneth R. White is a professor of health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Allied Health Professions in Richmond. He is a registered nurse with clinical and administrative experience and has also worked in hospital operations and marketing. He has written about end-of-life care, charity care, HIV care and the administrative concerns unique to […]

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, an attorney and public health expert, is associate director of the University of Virginia Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. She has served as an adviser to numerous hospital ethics boards and has taught a course on ethical issues in the evolving care delivery system.

James Dawsey, professor of religious studies at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., has written about liberation theology and economic development.

Marc Ellis is retired Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has written about a Jewish theology of liberation and about the future of liberation theology. He wrote Practicing Exile: The Religious Odyssey of an American Jew.