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Ethics Advisory Board
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Timothy Caulfield, LLM
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Timothy Caulfield, LL.M., Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, Professor, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Research Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta
Timothy Caulfield has been Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, since 1993. In 2002 he received a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is also a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. His research has focussed on two general areas: biotechnology, ethics and the law; and the legal implications of health care reform in Canada. He has published well over 100 academic articles and book chapters and often writes for the popular press. He is the recipient of an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Health Research Scholarship entitled “Regulating the ‘Genetic Revolution;’” a Genome Canada project on the regulation of genomic technologies, is the theme leader for a recently awarded Stem Cell Network grant .(National Centres of Excellence) and is the Principal Investigator for a CIHR grant exploring the legal issues associated with the control of infectious disease. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hasting Center for Bioethics in New York, the University of Houston’s Health Law and Policy Institute, and at Stanford University’s Program in Genomics, Ethics and Society. In 2000, he was awarded the University of Alberta’s Martha Cook Piper Research Prize, in 2002 received the Alumi Horizon Award and in 2004 received the University’s Media Relations award. Professor Caulfield Chaired the Canadian Blood Services Ethics Committee; and is a Member of Genome Canada’s Science Advisory Committee. He was on the Institute Advisory Board, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institute of Health Research; was part of the Royal Society of Canada’s Expert Panel on the Future of Food Biotechnology (2001) and was a member of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (1998-2005). He Chairs and serves on numerous other research policy and ethics committees, is an editor of the Health Law Journal and the Health Law Review, teaches Law and Medicine in the Faculty of Law, and provides health law lectures for other faculties.
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Mildred K. Cho, Ph.D.
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Mildred Cho is an Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Genetics of the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University, and Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She received her B.S. in Biology in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in 1992 from the Stanford University Department of Pharmacology. Her post-doctoral training was in Health Policy as a Pew Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco and at the Palo Alto VA Center for Health Care Evaluation. Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Cho was Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is a member of national advisory boards for the National Human Genome Research Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Public Policy Directorate, and the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine. She has also served as a member of the working group on synthetic genomes for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Professional Interests and Activities
Dr. Cho's major areas of interest are the ethical and social impacts of genetic research and its applications, and how conflicts of interest affect the conduct of academic biomedical research. Her current research projects examine ethical and social issues in research on human genetic variation, stem cells, pharmacogenetics, bioinformatics, and bioweapons and microbial genome research.
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Eric T. Juengst, Ph.D.
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Eric Juengst is an Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.
He received his B.S. in Biology from the University of the South in 1978, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University in 1985. He has taught bioethics and the philosophy of science on the faculties of the medical schools of the University of California, San Francisco and Penn State University.
His research interests and publications have focused on the conceptual and ethical issues raised by new advances in human genetics and biotechnology, and from 1990 to 1994, he was the first Chief of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Branch of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
He currently serves on the National Council for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health, the Bioethics Advisory Committee for NASA, the National Ethics Committee of the March of Dimes, the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Human Gene Therapy, and the editorial boards of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Human Gene Therapy, IRB:Ethics and Human Research, Medical Humanities Reviews, Community Genetics, and the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd Edition. He has previously served on the U.S. Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the DNA Advisory Board of the FBI, and the National Research Council's Committee on Human Genetic Variation Research.
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Loren Lomasky, Ph.D.
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Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, and Director of the Political Philosophy, Policy and Law Program. Professor Lomasky is best known for his work in moral and political philosophy. His book Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community(Oxford University Press, 1987) established his reputation as a leading advocate of a rights-based approach to moral and social issues. He co-authored with G. Brennan Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and co-edited with G. Brennan Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Lomasky has been the recipient of many awards including the 1991 Matchette Prize for his book Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community. Professor Lamasky has held research appointments sponsored by the NEH, the Center for the Study of Public Choice, the Australian National University and Bowling Green's Social Philosophy and Policy Center. Professor Lomasky's teaching interests include the philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy and other episodes in the history of philosophy as well as many topics in moral and political philosophy.
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Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D.
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Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D. is an assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine and a Baylor Educational Scholars Fellow. She received her B.A. in psychology, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in December 1995, her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in 2000, and her Ph.D. in medical humanities, with distinction, from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2004. Dr. McGuire's research interests focus on legal and ethical issues in research involving human subjects. She is particularly interested in issues of informed consent and confidentiality in human genome sequencing research. Recently, she co-authored, along with Dr. Richard Gibbs, Director, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, a policy forum, "No Longer De-Identified, " which argues that genome sequencing research should be brought under existing federal regulation and informed consent for the public release of sequenced DNA data should be mandated. Dr. McGuire has also conducted research and written on informed consent and shared decision making in clinical practice.
Dr. McGuire's responsibilities at Baylor include directing and teaching the first-year medical student ethics course, teaching medical and pediatric residents, and serving on several committees, including the ethics committees at The Methodist Hospital, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, and The Ben Taub General Hospital, the Baylor Institutional Review Board, and the Baylor Curriculum Committee.
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