Wesley Smith, Ronald B. Miller, John Evans, and Alta Charo
with
conference organizers
Mary Blair-Loy and Michael Kalichman
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Panelists |
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Alta Charo, J.D.
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics,
University of Wisconsin
Visiting Professor of Law,
University of California, Berkeley. |
Dr. Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison , where she is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School 's Department of Medical History and Bioethics. She is currently Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California , Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) and offers courses on health law, bioethics and biotechnology law, food & drug law, medical ethics, reproductive rights, torts, and legislative drafting. In addition, she has served on the UW Hospital clinical ethics committee, the University's Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects in medical research, and the University's Bioethics Advisory Committee.
Professor Charo is the author of nearly 100 articles, book chapters and government reports on topics including family planning and abortion law, medical genetics law, reproductive technology policy, and science policy. She is a member of the board of the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the National Medical Advisory Committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She serves on the expert advisory boards of three organizations with an interest in stem cell research, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and WiCell.
Professor Charo has served on the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel, was a member of the presidential National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Life Sciences and served as its liaison to its committee to develop national voluntary guidelines for stem cell research. Currently she serves on its committee to review the FDA and the U.S. national system for the assurance of drug safety. In 2006, she was appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practices.
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John Evans, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
and author
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Dr. Evans is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego . He has been a visiting member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , NJ and a post-doctoral fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at Yale University . He is the author of Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate. In addition to writing about the structure of bioethics debates, he has also published a number of articles on opinion polarization in the U.S. over abortion, homosexuality and related issues. He is completing a book tentatively titled Genesis and Generations: the Religious Citizen and the Debate over Reproductive Genetic Technology.
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Ronald B. Miller, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Division of Nephrology and
Director, Program of Medical Ethics,
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Wesley Smith, J.D.
Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute in Seattle and author
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Wesley J. Smith is the author or co/author of 11 books. His recent books are Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America and Power Over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need. He is also author of Forced Exit: the Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder. His current book is Consumer's Guide to Brave New World, which ponders the dangers and potential benefits of human cloning, stem cell therapies, and genetic engineering. He is currently conducting research for a book he will write on the animal rights/liberation movement.
Mr. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, is an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. He is an international lecturer and public speaker, appearing at political, university, medical, legal, bioethics, and community gatherings and his writing and opinion columns have appeared in such national and regional news publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard magazine, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Post, First Things, Forbes magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Detroit Newsamong many others. Smith has appeared internationally on the electronic media, including such programs as CNN Crossfire, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Nightline, and the Sunday Program on BBC 4 radio. |
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