Dr. R. Sean Morrison is a professor of palliative careat Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He co-edited a book on geriatric palliative care and is director of the National Palliative Care Research Center.

Dr. Joanne Lynn is a pioneer in palliative care and care of the dying, a geriatrician, a health services researcher and an ethicist. She has served as chairwoman for various efforts to improve end-of-life care, is past president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying and is the author or editor of numerous books, […]

Marsha Cohen is a law professor at Hastings College of Law of the University of California, San Francisco. Her expertise include food and drug law, torts and administrative law.

Dr. Leonard Deftos is a physician, medical researcher and lawyer. He is a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, a physician at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Maxwell Mehlman is the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the Case School of Law and Professor of Biomedical Ethics in the Case School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is co-author of Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy and author of Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of […]

Daniel S. Goldberg is a faculty member at the Department of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. His research interests include clinical ethics as well as ethical issues in clinical and pharmaceutical research.

Dr. David Doukas is a faculty member in the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, and he holds the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism at the University of Louisville. He is a co-author of Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family.

Kenneth W. Goodman is a professor of medicine at the University of Miami and the founder and director of the University of Miami Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative. He is also the co-director of the university’s Ethics Programs.

Lars Noah is a law professor at the Fred G. Levin College of Law of the University of Florida in Gainesville and author of Law, Medicine and Medical Technology: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Foundation Press, 2006).