Hastings Center Report

Douglas S. Diekema is director of education at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. His interests include clinical and research ethics in pediatrics and ethics education.

Rebecca Dresser is Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and professor of ethics in medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.

Denise M. Dudzinski is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. She coedited a book entitled Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us (Cambridge, 2008).

Sara Goering is assistant professor of philosophy and faculty member for the Program on Values in Society and the Disability Studies Program at the University of Washington.

Maureen Kelley is a philosopher by training, a scholar at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and assistant professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her research focuses on ethical issues in maternal and child global health and adolescent medicine.

Carolyn Korfiatis is a research assistant at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She currently works on research projects related to improving communication between providers and parents who hesitate to vaccinate their children. With Dr. Diekema, she is also editing a clinical ethics in pediatrics textbook.

Stephen R. Latham is deputy director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University.

Anne Drapkin Lyerly is associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and core faculty in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine at Duke University.

Carolyn McLeod is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She is principal investigator for the research project “Let Conscience Be Their Guide? Conscientious Refusals in Reproductive Health Care,” funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Paul Steven Miller was the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law and the former director of the Disability Studies Program at the University of Washington. Professor Miller spent his legal career moving between academia, public service, and law practice, focusing on issues related to genetics and disability. He emphasized process, giving weight to all perspectives and helping people see beyond their own views. He died on October 19, 2010.

Howard Minkoff is a distinguished professor of obstetrics and gynecology at SUNY Downstate and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Maimonides Medical Center.

Douglas J. Opel is a general pediatrician, scholar at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and acting assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research interests include improving quality of care through better provider-parent communication.

John Robinson is an associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame. He has been researching and writing about end-of-life legal issues for the past fifteen years.

Benjamin S. Wilfond directs the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital and is professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. His interests focus on research ethics, particularly as it relates to pediatrics and genetics. [End Page 48]