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Staff

Director

Ana Lita, Ph.D., Dr. Lita earned her B.A. in history of western philosophy from the University of Bucharest, Romania and her M.A. in sociology focused on political culture from the Central European University in Prague. She received her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University, USA, in applied ethics and social philosophy.

The author of numerous conference presentations, scholarly and popular publications, her teaching and writings have focused on ethics, especially in health care, medicine, and business. She is recipient of a Soros Foundation Fellowship and a National Association Fellowship for International Scholars and was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 1995. She also served as a junior researcher at the Institute for Educational Sciences in Bucharest, Romania from 1991-1995, where she was responsible for a joint research project on Adult Education with UNESCO and the Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany. Most recently, she held a tenure track position (2001-2004) as an assistant professor of philosophy at Lincoln University, Missouri.

As director of the Center, Dr. Lita serves as a key representative of the IHEU to the Social and Economic Council of the UN, attending regular briefings and interfacing with other NGOs, country delegates, and diplomatic missions. She sits on the UN NGO Health Committee, the UN NGO HIV/AIDS Committee and the Ethics Committee of the Values Caucus, a consortium of non-governmental organizations at the UN, as well as the advisory board of the Genetics Policy Institute, a Miami-based think tank focusing on embryonic stem cell research.



Main donor for the Appignani Humanist Center for Bioethics, Louis J. Appignani, President of the Appignani Foundation.

Jason P. Lott is a visiting researcher on volunteer basis for the Center. He is a former Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and a current Gamble Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His research interests include clinical ethics, health policy-making, and health economics. He has most recently worked as an intern researcher in the Evidence and Information for Policy Unit of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Jacqueline Rowland, has been volunteering with various programmes to improve access to services for women and children since 1996. She currently volunteeres with the Red Cross and freelance editing and writing for various peace organisations. She worked in the human-rights field for three-month in South Africa in 1999, and she is currently researching options for a potential project with survivors of the 20-year long genocide in Northern Uganda. Jacqueline interned with both the Appignani Centre and UNA-USA in 2005. She holds a BA from Fordham University in International Studies and applied to study for a MA in Peace & Conflict Reconciliation with a focus on nonviolence and restorative justice.

Advisory Board

Dr. Robert Buckman, Medical Oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital, Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and President of the Humanist Association of Canada, http://www.drbuckman.com/

Charles Debrovner, M.D., Ph.D. is a board member of the American Humanist Association and served as president of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Currently he is the president of the Humanist Institute and a board member of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.                               
 
Honorary Members:

Jose Pietro Aparicio, MD, MPH is Medical Doctor and Master in Public Health with expertise in local and international public health. Chair of the UN NGO Health Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wise Use of Antibiotics Committee New York State Department of Public Health and of the APHA Latino Caucus (American Public Health Association).

Louis J. Appignani, President of Appignani Foundation and main donor of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics, http://www.appignanifoundation.org

Art Caplan, Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu

Michael Castlen, Executive Director of PCI – Media Impact in New York City, http://www.population.org/aboutpci_staff.shtml

Peter Derkx, Professor of Humanism and Worldviews at the University of Humanism Universiteit voor Humanistiek, The Netherlands, http://www.iheu.org/node/1278

Marin Gillis, Professor and Director of Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/OME/admin.asp

Wendy T. Hall, President of W.T. Hall and Associates, a business and social marketing firm in New Jersey

Phillip W. Henderson, President of Surdna Foundation in New York City, a private grant-making foundation, www.surdna.org

Barry Herman, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of The New School in New York, http://gpia.info/faculty/Herman.html

Larry Jones, President, Institute for Humanist Studies, Albany, NY and Vice President of IHEU, http://humaniststudies.org

Edward F. McClennen, Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Visiting Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics, http://philosophy.syr.edu/FacMcClennen.htm

Jonathan D. Moreno, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/bioethics/index.html#about

Stuart Newman, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College and Fellow at the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, http://www.nymc.edu/sanewman/

Thomas Pogge, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University currently Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, http://www.columbia.edu/~tp6/index.html

Laura Purdy, Professor of Philosophy and Ruth and Albert Koch Professor of Humanities at Wells College, NY, http://aurora.wells.edu/~lpurdy/

Howard Radest, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort, http://www.noves.org/Speaker_Bios/Howard_Radest_bio.htm

Carole Ryavec, Director of development for PCI-Media Impact in NY, http://www.population.org/aboutpci_staff.shtml

Adrian Sângeorzan, Specialist Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Jamaica Hospital, NYC, www.public.asu.edu/~orlich/sangeorzan.htm

Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Queen’s University,Canada, http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/, http://www.udo-schuklenk.org/

Gregory L. Scott, IT Specialist, IBM, and independent scholar  

Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/

Bonnie Spanier, Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, http://www.albany.edu/ws/spanier.html

James Stacey Taylor, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, http://www.tcnj.edu/~philos/faculty.html

Lazar Vlasceanu, Professor of Sociology at Bucharest University and Higher Education Specialist at UNESCO-European Center for Higher Education, Romania, http://www.cepes.ro/cepes/Vlasceanu.htm

Volunteers:

Mark H. Herman, Former Member of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics staff and Ph.D. Student in Philosophy and Applied Ethics at Bowling Green State University

Jason Lott, Former Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and current Gamble Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, http://www.iheu.org/node/2200

Ina Manea, Research Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Bowling Green State University and Director of Development at the Wright Laboratory, http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/photochem/wpl/people.html

Carleigh Krubiner, is research assistant for the Center. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in the History and Sociology of Science. While currently working in marketing, she plans to pursue a graduate degree in bioethics. Her main areas of interest are neuroethics, bioengineering, eugenics, end-of life decisions and disease control.

Biographical Sketches

Dr. Robert Buckman, M.D., is a practicing oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto and a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. His specialties include breast cancer treatment and oncological communication. He has extensive experience in scientific and medical broadcasting, and was awarded a Gemini (the Canadian equivalent of an Emmy) for his series Magic or Medicine? He has written fourteen books, including How To Break Bad News (a medical textbook for physicians and healthcare professionals), What You Really Need To Know About Cancer (a comprehensive guide for patients and their families), Not Dead Yet (an autobiography), and the national best seller, Can We Be Good Without God? - Biology, Behavior and the Need to Believe. Dr. Buckman is also President of the Humanist Association of Canada.

Charles Debrovner, PhD, has devoted his professional career to medicine, helping couples with infertility to achieve their dreams of a family, and to education, helping to train young doctors for careers in obstetrics and gynecology. Humanism has been an important part of his life for over twenty years. For seven years he served as president of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and for the past fifteen years he served as president of the Humanist Institute and as a board member of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He has also served as an expert in medical legal matters. Chuck lives in New York City.

Louis Appignani, is a successful entrepreneur from Miami Florida. He was born in Manhattan, NY. Currently chairman and founder of LouJA Realty Inc., he was also the chairman and founder of Computer Education Inc., and Barbizon International Modeling Schools until 2000. He graduated from the Baruch College in NYC and earned an MS degree from Columbia University in finance. He attended postgraduate studies in economics at Indiana University. He has served on the boards of several professional, civic, and political organizations and in 2001 established the Appignani Foundation to “support secular activities that will address significant, viable and long term human goals on our planet.”

Art Caplan, Ph.D., is currently the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Prior to coming to Penn in 1994, Caplan taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He was the Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984-1987. Born in Boston, Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, and did his graduate work at Columbia University where he received a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science in 1979. Caplan is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. He writes a regular column on bioethics for MSNBC.com. He is a frequent guest and commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and many other media outlets. He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.

Michael Castlen, M.S., is executive director of PCI – Media Impact in New York City. He has an extensive background building organizational capacity in non-profit organizations, specifically those involved in international development. Under his leadership, PCI has increased the number of social change radio shows produced by nearly tenfold, with more than 50 shows airing in the past two years. He served as Chief Operating Officer at the Foundation for a Civil Society and worked with NGOs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to strengthen civil society organizations and nurture local corporate philanthropy. At Holt International he worked in Romania on strengthening child-welfare. He lived and worked in Romania, Kenya, Sudan, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Peter Derkx, Ph.D., is professor of humanism and worldviews at the University of Humanistics (Universiteit voor Humanistiek)in the Netherlands. His primary areas of study include the theory of humanism as a worldview, science and technology, and meanings of life. He is head of the research program, Towards a Lingua Democratica for the Public Debate on Genomics.  His recent publications include Modern Humanism in the Netherlands (Empowering Humanity: State of the Art in Humanistic), From Do You Believe in God? to What Makes Your Life Meaningful? (The Low Countries: Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands), and Evolutionary Humanism: Possibilities and Limitations of a Scientific Meaning Frame (Nauka i obscestvo). www.uvh.nl.  

Marin Gillis, Ph.D., professor and director of Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Nevada School of Medicine. Her scholarship includes the ethics pharmacist refusal to dispense emergency contraception, pharmacogenomics, and the ethics of embryonic stem cell research with a particular concern for the co modification of women's reproductive material. She holds two graduate degrees in philosophy, an LPh. Higher Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. She was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow. She is a Steering Committee Member of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory and a member of the American Philosophical Association, The Society for Philosophy and Technology, and the American Association of Practical and Professional Ethics.

Wendy T. Hall, M.S., MED., is president of W.T. Hall and Associates, a business and social marketing firm in New Jersey with a specialty area in international museum exhibits and design.  As a healthcare ethics educator, she consults as advocate to patients confronted by end of life decisions and was a former regional administrator for a medical organ and tissue transplant consortium in the northeast of the United States.  She developed public education information in Spanish and Arabic, and managed the production of a widely circulated video and booklet for younger audiences potentially faced with the ethical decisions involved in donation and transplantation. To create more awareness about organ and tissue donation, she developed proposals to municipal mayors, transplant hospitals, academic institutions and cultural groups to collaborate and create forums and programs on health awareness, clinical protocols from donation to transplant, and the intersection of the arts with the science of transplantation. Supporting bioethics in health care and consults at the level of international policy and social applications are central to her future initiatives.    

Phillip W. Henderson, M.S., is president of Surdna Foundation in New York City, a $939 million grant-making foundation. He was Vice President of Marshall Fund of the United States, a U.S.-based non profit fostering transatlantic cooperation and understanding through grant-making and policy research. He has significant expertise in the field of U.S.-European relations; he has more than 13 years of interest in and a track record of significant accomplishment in the support of democratic and economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe. He lived and worked in Romania, Czech Republic, and Hungary over a five years period from 1992-97 and has continued to travel to the region several times a year in support of a variety of projects since that time. He taught international trade and international finance courses at the University of  Timisoara, Romania, and he was for four years in senior management positions for the Civic Education Project (CEP), through SOROS Foundation. CEP was an American non-profit group that supported curriculum reform in the social sciences at universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. At the German Marshall Fund, he oversees more than thirty substantive programs in support of policy dialogue, policy research, exchange of best practices, leadership development, democracy promotion, and economic development between the United States and Europe. 

Barry Herman, Ph.D., is visiting senior fellow at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of The New School in New York. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Global Integrity, a research NGO based in Washington that works with independent scholars and investigative reporters on assessing governance and corruption in developed and developing countries. He completed almost 30 years in the United Nations Secretariat in 2005, the last two years of which were as Senior Advisor in the Financing for Development Office in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). In that capacity, he was team leader for two sets of multi-stakeholder consultations encompassing governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development (jointly with the UN Capital Development Fund) and on Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development (jointly with UNCTAD, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank). He was part of the Secretariat team for the Monterrey Summit on Financing for Development in 2002. Earlier, he led the team that produced the UN’s annual World Economic and Social Survey. Before joining the UN Secretariat in 1976, he taught development and international economics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has edited three books and published articles and chapters in books on North-South financial issues and global negotiations on development.www.newschool.edu

Larry Jones, is president of the Institute for Humanist Studies, Albany, NY which he founded in 1999. He serves as first vice-president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, the worldwide umbrella group for humanist, atheist, rationalist, freethought, and ethical culture groups. The IHEU has more than 100 member organizations in 40 countries, and Jones is the only North American on its Executive Committee. Jones also represents the IHEU as NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) delegate to the United Nations. He previously served as executive director of the Capital District Humanist Society and sat on the Board of Directors of the National Philanthropic Trust, the Center for Inquiry, and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP -- publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine).

Edward McClennen, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at Syracuse University and a Visiting Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.  Ned McClennen has focused on foundational issues in decision and game theory, and on the application of these theories to issues in social and political philosophy, public policy, political economy, moral theory, and practical reason. At the level of foundations, his book, Rationality and Dynamic Choice (Cambridge University Press, 1990) is a critique of the various axiomatic constructions of expected-utility theory, and in a series of parallel articles he has similarly critiqued the arguments that are supposed to underpin the theory of games. He was a NEH Fellow in 1989. At the level of applications, he has written extensively and regularly taught courses on both historical and contemporary contractarian approaches to moral, social and political principles, including the works of Gauthier, Rawls and Dworkin. He is presently completing a book that explores what would qualify as a fully rational society.

Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D., is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and was Co-Chair of the National Academies' Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. He is also a bioethics advisor for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, a Fellow of the Hastings Center and of the New York Academy of Medicine. Moreno has been a senior staff member for two presidential commissions and has given invited testimony for both houses of congress. Moreno has published a number of books and more than 200 papers, reviews and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards. He is an ethics commentator for ABCNews.com and is a frequent guest on news and information programs. He is often quoted in the national press. He was a member of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee, a senior consultant for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During 1994-95 he was Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. Moreno received his bachelor's degree from Hofstra University in 1973, with highest honors in philosophy and psychology. He was a University Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 1977, and was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in cooperation with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from Hofstra.Publications:  Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Dana Press, 2006), Is There an Ethicist in the House? (Indiana University Press, 2006), In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (MIT Press, 2003); Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (Routledge, 2001); and Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research (Johns Hopkins, 2003).

Stuart Newman, Ph.D., is professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College and a fellow at the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future. He is a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and has testified before Congressional committees regarding patenting organisms, human stem cells, and cloning. Dr. Newman was a consultant to the National Institutes of Health regarding the use of human fetal tissue for research, an INSERM Fellow at the Pasteur Institute (Paris), and a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University (Australia). Additionally, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Paris-Sud, the French Atomic Energy Center-Saclay, the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), the Konrad Lorenz Institute (Vienna), and the University of Tokyo. Dr. Newman has contributed to several scientific fields, including biophysical chemistry, developmental biology, and evolutionary theory, and is co-author, with Gabor Forgacs, of the forthcoming textbook, Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo. 

Thomas Pogge, Ph.D., German philosopher, is currently Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Pogge has written extensively on political philosophy, especially on Rawls, Immanuel Kant, cosmopolitanism, and, more recently, extreme poverty. His book World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, 2002) is widely regarded as one of the most important works on global justice. Pogge's work has been, along with that of Charles Beitz and Henry Shue, one of the most important in the "first wave" of work on global justice. Yet what makes Pogge's contribution to the debate on global justice and the eradication of world poverty original is his emphasis on negative duties rather than on the positive duties stressed by Beitz and Shue. According to Pogge, the global rich have a stringent duty of justice to take decisive steps toward the eradication of global poverty primarily because they have violated the negative duty not to contribute to the imposition of a global institutional order that foresee ably and avoidably renders the basic socioeconomic rights of other human beings unfulfilled, and not because they must honor a positive duty to help others in need when they can at little cost to themselves. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls.

Laura Purdy, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy and Ruth and Albert Koch Professor of Humanities at Wells College, NY.  She completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Stanford University in 1974. From 1997-2000 she held the position of Bioethicist, University Health Network, and the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics where she also acted as Co-Chair of the Women's Health Research Network. At Wells College, she has been Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and coordinates the minor in Science, Health & Values. She has taught, presented and published extensively in the field of ethics. Her books include: Reproducing Persons and she is co-editor of Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Embodying Bioethics, and, most recently Bioethics, Justice and Health Care. http://aurora.wells.edu/~lpurdy/

Howard Radest, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort.  He teaches medical ethics, comparative religion, and social and political philosophy.  He serves as Ethics Consultant to Hilton Head Hospital and is Chair of its Biomedical Ethics Committee.  He is a consulting member of the SC Medical Assn Ethics Committee.  He is consultant to the Center for Preparedness, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina.  He is the Dean Emeritus of The Humanist Institute, a member of the National Council of Ethical Culture Leaders, and a former member of the Board of the Association for Moral Education.  He is a member of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophic Thought. Dr. Radest was the founder and first chair (1983-1991) of the University Seminar on Moral Education, Columbia University.  He is a member of the Board of the North American Committee for Humanism (NACH).  He served from 1978-88 as Co-Chair of The International Humanist and Ethical Union. He is on the editorial boards of The Humanist and Religious Humanism. In addition to his numerous articles, his books are Toward Common Ground (Ungar, 1968), Can We Teach Ethics? (Praeger, 1989), The Devil and Secular Humanism (Praeger, 1990), Community Service, Encounter With Strangers (Praeger, 1993), Humanism With A Human Face (Praeger, 1996), Felix Adler: An Ethical Culture, (Peter Lang, Publishers, 1998), From Clinic To Classroom--Medical Ethics and Moral Education, (Praeger, 2000). Dr. Radest received his B.A. at Columbia College, his M.A. in Philosophy and Psychology at The New School for Social Research and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Columbia University.                                       

Carole Ryavec, Ph.D., is director of development for PCI-Media Impact in NYC. She earned her Ph.D. in political history, with a specialization in Japanese medieval legal history, at Columbia University. Thereafter, she took the opportunity to work in the newly thriving Japanese economy, working in banking and finance for nearly twenty years with Chemical Bank, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers, mainly in Tokyo. Carole joined PCI-Media Impact in fall 2006. Previously she worked at Doctors Without Borders and International Education and Resource Network - USA. She is excited to be working with a team that enables NGOs to use creative media to reach out broadly to improve the health of people in their communities. Carole learned in her extensive travels throughout Asia and Africa about the power of stories to shape lives. She holds a certificate in screenwriting from NYU, and is an award-winning script writer, as well as professional script reader. Using her experience in international banking and finance, she focuses on the development of program operations that are designed for effectiveness, sustainability and leverage.

Adrian Sângeorzan, M.D., works as a specialist obstetrician and gynecologist at Jamaica Hospital in NYC. He graduated from the Medical School at the University of Cluj, Transylvania and worked as a specialist obstetrician and gynecologist in Romania until 1990, when he immigrated to the United States. He lives in New York . His prizewinning, best selling volume of memoirs and fiction, titled Between Two Worlds – Tales of a Women's Doctor, is published in English and Romanian. He is a full time attending and faculty adviser at Jamaica Hospital, New York.

Udo Schuklenk, Ph.D., isprofessor of bioethics at Queen’s University, Canada. He was the head of the Centre for Ethics and Public Policy and the Chair of Ethics and Public Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland). He was also head of the Bioethics Division at the University Of Witwatersrand School Of Clinical Medicine (South Africa). He is the editor of AIDS: Society, Ethics and Law, and co-editor of Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.  He has written or edited Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness: Ethical Issues, Historical Dictionary of Bioethics, The Power of Pills: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development, and Marketing and Pricing Policies (Co-edited with P. Illingworth and J.C. Cohen). Professor Schuklenk has published over one hundred articles in peer-reviewed books and journals.

Gregory Scott, Ph.D., (Philosophy), taught The Meaning of Life at New York University, The Philosophy of Sex at the University of Toronto and the New School University (NYC), and Ethics and Business Ethics at other universities in the U.S. and Canada.  He has been published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and his most recent work deals with catharsis, tragedy, and comedy. In addition to academic philosophy, he has actively engaged in two other professions, dance education and information technologies.  After studying at the San Francisco Ballet School and the National Ballet School of Canada, he taught ballet in New York and California and directed the doctoral studies program in dance education at New York University from 1995 to 1998. Dr. Scott has been an invited speaker at international dance conferences, and has been featured in net.Learning, a PBS documentary, and by the New York press. His dance-related articles have appeared in Dance Research Journal and other publications. Starting in 1995, he began exploring instruction and performance over the Web, including Lifeforms, a 3-D animation package for computer choreography. He has been cited in Symlog, a computerized logic text, has programmed professionally using Java and other languages, and has worked in related roles for IBM since 2000.

Peter Singer, Ph.D., is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.  He is the author of Practical Ethics, one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Animal Liberation, which is credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement.  Rethinking Life and Death received the National Book Council's Banjo Award for Non-Fiction.  He wrote the major article on Ethics in the current edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, and, with Helga Kuhse, is co-editor of the journal Bioethics.  Professor Singer is also founder of the International Association of Bioethics.

Bonnie Spanier, Ph.D., received her doctorate from Harvard University in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, publishing on Newcastle disease (bird) virus infections at the molecular level.  While teaching biology at Wheaton College in MA, she received grants from the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health and the American Lung Association.  A grant from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College about Women in American Society catalyzed her move to develop pioneering feminist analyses of the sciences. Her book on the influence of sexist beliefs on the content of biology, Impartial Science: Gender ideology in molecular biology, (Indiana University Press, 1995) has been praised for its significance to physicians, scientists, and feminists.  Other publications analyze the errors of biological determinist claims about differences between groups. Her more recent scholarship combines her advocacy and education work as a co-founder of the Capital Region Action Against Breast Cancer (CRAAB!) with her scientific and feminist analysis of the science and politics of breast cancer activism. Professor Spanier is also an internationally recognized consultant on women's studies and curriculum transformation, particularly in the natural sciences.  Currently she is an Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

James Stacey Taylor, Ph.D., is assistant professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey.  He is the author of Stakes and Kidneys, and editor of Personal Autonomy: New Essays.  His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Social Philosophy & Policy, Public Affairs Quarterly, Philosophical Papers, Philosophia, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

Lazar Vlasceanu, Ph.D., is deputy director of UNESCO’s European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO – CEPES), Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from Bucharest University, Faculty of Philosophy and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from London University. As a professor of sociology at Bucharest University he published books and articles on social research methodology, sociology of culture and education, development theory and higher education management and policy such as: Decision and Innovation in Education (in English and Romanian, 1979), Methodology of Social Research (in Romanian, 1986), Structures, Strategies and Performances in Education (Editor, in Romanian, 1988), Trends, Needs and Developments of the Higher Education Systems of the Central and European Countries, CEPES/ UNESCO, 1999, Dictionary of Sociology (Editor, in Romanian, 1993), From Words to Action: Governance and Management in South Eastern European, 2002. Prior to his working for UNESCO-CEPES, he acted as a dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and then as a vice-rector of Bucharest University (1990) and then as a Secretary of State for higher education in the Romanian Ministry of Education (1991). Since 1992 he has been working in the UNESCO’s European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO – CEPES), Bucharest, Romania, as program specialist and deputy director. His current responsibilities at UNESCO-CEPES are related to the management of projects focused on university autonomy and academic quality assurance and accreditation, recognition of qualifications, co-operating closely with both national experts in the field and international organizations like the World Bank, the Council of Europe, the European University Association, OECD, etc.

Board Membership

Members of the Advisory Board may advise or participate in Center’s decisions, such as those regarding policy positions or organizational matters, contact other institutions on behalf of the Center or otherwise be involved in Center’s activities.  Members may formally submit recommendations and proposals to the Advisory Board Chair - Dr. Robert Buckman, Director of the Center - Dr. Ana Lita and Co-Chair Charles Debrovner, PhD.