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 […]

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.

Daniel C. Robinson is dean of the college of pharmacy at Western University in California.

Matthew Murawski is an associate professor of pharmacy administration at Purdue University in Indiana. He says pharmacists can face ethical concerns that go well beyond dispensing birth control – involving, for example, end-of-life issues and what medications are appropriate for children.

R. Alta Charo teaches law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin law school. From 2015 to 2017, she was a member of the Human Genome Editing Initiative, a joint project of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. She previously served on President Bill Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission.