President Bush Announces Composition of Bioethics Panel
January 18, 2002 - President Bush Jan. 16 announced the 17 members of the President's
Council on Bioethics. Leon Kass, M.D., of the University of Chicago
will chair the Council. The Council is charged with keeping the President
apprised of new developments in the bioethics arena and to provide a
forum for discussion and evaluation of those issues. The Council's first
meeting is scheduled for Jan. 17 and 18. In addition to Dr. Kass the
appointments include:
- Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry
and Biophysics, University California San Francisco;
- Stephen Carter, J.D. William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale
Law School;
- Rebecca Dresser, J.D., M.S. Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law,
Washington University School of Law;
- Daniel Foster, M.D. Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal
Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, University
of Texas Southwestern Medical School;
- Francis Fukuyama, Ph.D. Bernard Schwartz Professor of International
Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies of Johns Hopkins University;
- Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D. Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience,
Dartmouth College;
- Robert P. George, J.D., D. Phil. McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence,
Princeton University, and Director of the James Madison Program in
American Ideals and Institutions;
- Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, Ph.D. Ryan Family Professor of Metaphysics and
Moral Philosophy;
- Mary Ann Glendon, J.D., L.LM. Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard
University;
- William B. Hurlbut, M.D. Consulting Professor in Human Biology,
Stanford; University;
- Charles Krauthammer, M.D. National Columnist, The Washington Post;
- William F. May, Ph.D. Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics Emeritus,
Southern Methodist University;
- Paul McHugh, M.D. Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and Director
of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, and Psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital;
- Gilbert Meilaender, Ph.D. Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor
of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. Professor Meilaender
is an editor for the Journal of Religious Ethics and the Religious
Studies Review;
- Janet D. Rowley, M.D., D.Sc. Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor
of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and Human Genetics,
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago;
- Michael J. Sandel, Ph.D. Professor of Government, Harvard University;
and
- James Q. Wilson, Ph.D. The James A. Collins Professor of Management
and Public Policy Emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles.
Dean Clancy, senior policy analyst in the office of House Majority
Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) will serve as the Council's Executive Director.
The Council's communications officer is Diane M. Gianelli, formerly
a corespondent with American Medical News.
Information
Tony Mazzaschi, Senior Associate Vice President
AAMC Biomedical Health Sciences Research
tmazzaschi@aamc.org
(202) 828-0059
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