LAURIE ZOLOTH, PH - The University of Chicago Divinity School



Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D.University of Chicago Spring 2020PRESENT POSITIONS_______________________________________________________________Senior Advisor on Programs on Social Ethics 2018- presentMargaret E. Burton Professor of Religion, Divinity SchoolFaculty of the MacLean Center for Medical Ethics, Pritzker School of MedicineFaculty of the CollegeFaculty of the Greenberg Center for Jewish StudiesUniversity of Chicago, 2017-present.Chicago, Illinois.Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK, Elected 2015Affiliated Professor, University of Haifa, Israel, 2005-presentHonorary Doctorate, American Jewish University, 2020PAST POSITIONS_____________________________________________________________________Dean, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2017-2018Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 2014Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine 2003-2017Professor of Religious Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 2003-2017Professor, Program in Jewish Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 2003-2017Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religious Studies 2014-2017Institute for Policy Research Fellow, Northwestern University, 2016- 2017Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, 2009-2017Northwestern University Evanston, IllinoisChicago, IllinoisFounding Director, Brady Program in Ethics and Civic LifeAugust 2007- June 2012Founding Director, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of MedicineChicago, IllinoisJune 2005-September 2011Director of the Jewish Studies ProgramProfessor of Social Ethics and Jewish PhilosophyCollege of HumanitiesSan Francisco State UniversitySeptember 2000 to January 2003Director of the Jewish Studies ProgramAssociate Professor of Social Ethics and Jewish PhilosophyCollege of HumanitiesSan Francisco State UniversityJanuary 1996 to September 2000Lecturer, Social EthicsGraduate Theological UnionSpring 1994Co-founder, The Ethics PracticeResearch, Education and Consultation in Clinical BioethicsJune 1993 to January 2003Visiting Professor, University of VirginiaSpring 2000FIELD________________________________________________________________________________Bioethics: Basic Research Ethics; Clinical Ethics; Justice TheorySocial Ethics and Moral PhilosophyReligious StudiesJewish Ethics ACADEMIC BACKGROUND____________________________________________________________Lifetime Elected Clare Hall Member, University of Cambridge, 2015Elected Fellow, The Hastings Center, 2004Tenured and Promoted to Full Professor, September 2000.Ph.D., Social Ethics, Graduate Theological Union, May 1993.M.A., Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, The Center for Jewish Studies,May 1993.M.A., English, California State University (San Francisco State), 1991.B.S.N., University of the State of New York, 1982.B.A., Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, 1974. Certificate in Vocational Nursing (LVN), 1971, James Martin Vocational Trade School, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, 1971.Swarthmore College, 1968-1970. ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE__________________________________________________________Professor, University of Chicago, Divinity School and Pritzker School of Medicine and the CollegeProfessor, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. Professor, Northwestern University, Weinberg School of Arts and SciencesProfessor, by courtesy Northwestern University, School of LawDirector and Professor, San Francisco State University. Administered the university-wide program in Jewish Studies, directing 2 full time and eleven part-time faculty, overseeing all grant projects, managing the graduate program, community development and community relations. January 2000 to 2003.Director and Associate Professor, 1996-2000.Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies, (Judaism) and Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Bioethics, University of Virginia. Spring 2000.Visiting Research Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CaliforniaLecturer, Program in Bioethics, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Spring 1994. Served on M.A. Committee, Center for Jewish Studies, 1994-1995.COURSES TAUGHT: Justice in an Unjust World; Genetics and Meaning; Religion and Bioethics; Ethics and Climate Change; Jewish Ethics; Topics in Public Health: History, Katrina and the Medical Aftermath Values and Ethics; The Moral of the Story: Biblical Ethics; Good and Evil: Contemporary Jewish Social Ethics; Internship in Community Service; Facing Each Other: Blacks and Jews in the Popular Media; Jews and Judaism in the Modern World; Jewish Bioethics: Text and Tradition; Last Chance for Philosophy, In Case: Law and Bioethics, Reading Levinas, Research Ethics, The Good One (Veracity), The Good Neighbor, The Good Act (latter three are courses in the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life.) ; Jewish Ethics; Doctor as Hero, Ethics and Climate Change, Reading Your Neighbor’s Scripture, Jewish Ethics, Climate Change, Ethics and Medicine, The World is not Fair.CLINICAL ETHICS TEACHING AND CONSULTATION___________________________________________Co-Founder, The Ethics Practice, Berkeley, California. In this capacity, co-directed the education, consultation, and research projects as noted below:Ethicist, Washington Hospital Healthcare System, Alameda County, California. Withpartner, Sue Rubin, provided ongoing Bioethics education and consultation services to the Bioethics committee and the medical center, including a comprehensive ethicscurriculum, Bioethics rounds, case consultation, and policy review and analysis. 1991-1993, January 1995-2003.Ethicist, Mt. Diablo Hospital, Concord, California, and John Muir Medical Center, WalnutCreek, California. With partner, Sue Rubin, provided ongoing Bioethics education and Consultation services to the Bioethics committee and medical center. 1996-1997.Ethicist, Northern California Presbyterian Homes, San Francisco, California. With partner,Sue Rubin, provided ongoing Bioethics education and consultation services to the organization’s ethics committee serving the residents, staff, Board of Directors, and community in NCPH’s life-care, residential, assisted living, and continuing care facilities, and in its community-based programs for seniors. 1996-1997.Ethicist, The Children’s Hospital, Oakland, California. Primary Ethicist for both the Medical Ethics Committee and the Nursing Ethics Forum. Organized training and on-going education to the committees, the staff, and the Pediatric Residency Program in Bioethics. Facilitated case consultation and served as consultant to the Medical Center, 1988-1997.Consulting Ethicist, National Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization. Trained and continued to educate the Institutional and Regional Ethics Committees, developed policy and procedures and served as consulting clinical ethicist in the Northern California Region (15 medical centers), the Southern Region (10 medicalcenters), the Denver Region, the Hawaii Region, the Ohio Region, the Pacific Northwest Region, and the Kansas/Missouri Region 1987-1996 (continuing withselected clients 1996-2001).Consulting Ethicist, California State Hospice Association. Board retreats and consultation,1992-1993.Consulting Ethicist, Valley Memorial Hospital, Livermore, California. Trained and staffedCommittee, 1989-1993Staff Ethicist, Bioethics Consultation Group, Berkeley, California. Consulting Ethicist to allclients and projects of the Group, faculty at all BCG Intensive Seminars andNational Ethics Seminars jointly sponsored with the Kaiser Permanente Program.Developed methodology, teaching, case reviews, teaching tools, research resources,and programs in ethics committee development for the Group. Developed specialprograms in: justice theory, cultural diversity, basic legal and ethical training, feminist ethics, hospice, neonatology, and with colleague Susan Rubin, issues in futility andcare, nursing, and community building, 1987-1993.Consulting Ethicist, Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, California. Worked as Ethics Consultant to the Nursing Administration and as facilitator in the merger programwith the University of California, San Francisco Hospital, 1989-1990.Consulting Ethicist, The UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing), Northern anized and taught Northern California Program Directors in “Ethics and Methodology” and lectured in “Ethics in Transplantation,” as series of workshops throughout the northern state for hospital personnel and the lay community “Current Trends in Transplantation” developed by the UNOS. 1989.CLINICAL NURSING___________________________________________________________________________RN License, State of California, Current.Staff Nurse (RN), Infant Intensive Care Unit, Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, California, 1982-1989.Coordinator, Parent Prenatal Education Program, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California,1975-1981.Staff Nurse (LVN), Neonatal Unit, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California, 1975-1981.Staff Nurse, Women’s Health Collective (Berkeley Free Clinic), Berkeley California, 1972-1974.Staff Nurse (LVN), Neonatal Unit, Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1971-1972.FEDERAL COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES_______________________________________________________NASA Bioethics Committee, 2019- present Center of Disease Control, Committee on Emerging Viruses, 2017- presentDepartment of Energy Synthentic Biology Review Board 2015- presentNational Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (the RAC) NIH, 2012- 2016National NIH DSMB COVID-19 Trials 2020-presentNational NIH DSMB PATH Research Study 2015-present .National NIH DSMB PETAL Research Study 2015, presentNational NIH DSMB ROSE Research Study 2015National NIH DSMB CLOVER Research Study 2017National NIH DSMB Teen Depression and Technology 2015-presentNational Institutes of Health (NIH) National DSMB for Research on Minorities 2015National Advisory Committee, (Department of Defense) Peer Reviewed Orthopedic Research Program, Clinical Trials, 2011-2012National Institutes of Health, (NIH) Research on Minority and Vulnerable Populations, Data Safety Monitoring Committee.2010-present.National Advisory Board, National Emerging Diseases Monitoring Project, 2008-present.NASA National Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) and Flight IACUC,1999 to present.National NIH, Division of AIDS Asia Trial Group Data Safety Monitoring Board, member 2006-2012.National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Advisory Council, 2000 to2006NASA Planetary Protection National Advisory Board, 2002-2009National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Human Genome Research Institute, Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of the Human Microbiome Roadmap Planning Group, 2007-2009California Stem Cell Research Advisory Panel of the State Legislature, appointed 2003-2004NASA Research Maximization and Prioritization Task Force (ReMAP), National Commission, 2002 .National Institutes of Health (NIH), Division of AIDS Adult Clinical Trials Group Data SafetyMonitoring Board, member 2000 to 2003.National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Ethical, Social,and Legal Implications of the Human Genome (ELSI) Policy Planning Group (EPPG), The Future of Human Genomics, 2002. NIH ELSI Section Chair, Ethical Boundaries of Genetic Research, 2002.NASA Extravehicular Activity, (EVA) Data Safety and Monitoring Board, 2000.EXPERT TESTIMONY FOR NATIONAL or STATE COMMISSIONS______________Testimony on HR Bill for Biological Engineering, for US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Research, 2019Testimony on Mitochondrial DNA Transfer in Humans for National Academies, IOM (2015) Testimony on Ethical Issues in Human Space Exploration, for National Academies, IOM, July, 2014Testimony on Stem Cell Research at Illinois State Legislature—House of Representatives, February 22, 2007Testimony on Stem Cell Research at Chicago City Council, Chicago, IL, July 25, 2005Testimony on Stem Cell Research at the Texas State Legislature, Austin, TX, January 26, 2005.Testimony on the “Ethics of Stem Cell Research” at the NAS Guidelines for HumanEmbryonic Stem Cell Research Workshop, National Academies, Washington, DC, October 13, 2004.Expert Testimony on Stem Cell Research before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Science,Technology, and Space, Washington, DC, September 29, 2004.Testimony to the NIH National Planning Commission on Ethical, Social and Legal Implications to the Human Genome Project Planning and Assessment Process, Section on Ethical Barriers “Ethical and Policy Implications in Stem Cell Research,” Washington, DC, July 2002. Testimony and Response, California State Commission on Cloning Final Report (ReligiousResponse Panel) 2001The National Bioethics Advisory Committee Hearings: Religious Perspectives onHuman Stem Cell Research, May 1999.Consultant to the National Institutes of Health, Septic Shock Protocols, February 1999.Consultant to the NASA Committee on National Standards for the Treatment of Animals asResearch Subjects resulting in the Sundowner Report on The Use of Animals asResearch Subjects, October 1996.PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS_______________________________________________LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:American Academy of Religion, Vice President, President Elect, and President 2011-2014American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, President, 2001Engineering Biology Research Consortium (ERBC) National Leadership Steering Council, 2019International Society for Stem Cell Research, National Board, 2003-2009 Northwestern University Faculty Senate President, 2016-2017Northwestern University General Faculty Council, President- 2008-2009Society for Jewish Ethics, Vice-President, 2002SYNBERC National Strategic Advisory Committee, Chair 2013ISSCR Ethics Committee, Co-Chair, 2003 to 2006Justice Committee Chair, International ISSCR Guidelines Task Force, 2007-2009.Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bioethics Advisory Board, Chair of Bioethics, 2000 to 2009.Society for Jewish Ethics, Vice President, 2001 and 2002. Fellow of the Hastings Center, elected, 2000American Academy of Religion, Co-Chair, Women and Religions Section, 2000 to 2009American Academy of Religion, Co-Chair, Childhood Studies and Religion Group.Canadian National Stem Cell Network, Director of Ethics Committee, Canada, 2007RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC BOARD SERVICE:Target Malaria International Ethics Board 2017- presentAmerican Heart Association National Bioethics Board, 2019Engineering Biology Research Consortium National Executive Steering Committee 2019- presentSociety for Jewish Ethics, National Board, 2011-2017American Society for Reproductive Medicine Bioethics Advisory Board, 2012-2016Canadian Stem Cell Foundation, National Board Member, and Chair Ethics Committee, 2008-2012 University of California at Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Infectious Disease Laboratory, Scientific Advisory Board, 2006-Present Columbia University, Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Board Member, 1999-presentCambridge Interfaith Programme, Cambridge University Academic Consultation, 2006Society for Neuroethics, National Board, 2006-2012Scriptural Reasoning Theory Group, 2002-present University of California at San Francisco, Medical School, Center for Regenerative MedicineNational Board, 2004-2014Children’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School) Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, 2005 to 2011.Academic Board for the Metanexus Institute, 2005-2011.Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bioethics Advisory Board, 2000 to 2009. Society for Women’s Health Research, National Board of Directors, 2004 to 2010 (Executive Committee, SWHR, in 2007)International Society for Stem Cell Research, Founding Board member, 2001 to 2009International Society for Stem Cell Research, International Standards Task Form, 2005-2010.International Society for Stem Cell Research, Ethics Committee, 2003-2010Hadassah International Health Advisory Council, 2005 to presentAmerican Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Founding Board Member, 1998-2002.Levinas Ethical Legacy Foundation, Board, 2006 to presentWomen’s Bioethics Project, Academic Advisory Board, 2006-2010.Society for Jewish Ethics, Founding Board Member, 2000 to present.Religious Consultation on Ethics, Reproduction, and Women’s Health, 2000-2007.American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Clinical Ethics Task Force, 2003-2009.American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Conflict of Interest and Health CarePolicy Task Force, 2003. American Academy of Religion Steering Committee, Consultation on Religion and Childhood, 2003 to 2012.American Academy of Religion, Women and Religions Steering Committee, 2000 to 2009. Genetics Policy Institute, Legal and Policy Advisory Board, 2004.Scriptural Reasoning, International Advisory Founding Board Member, 2003 to 2007.The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at the Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America, National Advisory Board, 1998 to 2002.Child Neurological Society, Academic Board, 2004-presentRobert Wood Johnson Foundation, Promoting Excellence at the End of Life, National Advisory Board 1997 to 2004.Textual Reasonings: Post-Modern Jewish Philosophy, National Board, 1997 to2005.California State University Jewish Studies, State Steering Committee, 1996–2003.Academic Consortium of the Jewish Studies Program of Northern California, ExecutiveBoard Steering Committee 1996-2003.American Academy of Religion, Ethics Section, Steering Committee, 1997-2002.The Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith and Ethics, The Project on Jewish Ethics, NationalAdvisory Board, 1999 – 2001.Geron Corporation, Ethics Advisory Board, 1998 to 2003. Western Jewish Studies Association, National Board, 1998-2001.American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, National Program Committee, 1998, 1999.American Association for the Advancement of Science, Program of Dialogue between Scienceand Religion (DoSER), National Board, 1998-2004. American Association of Bioethics, National Nominating Committee, 1995-1996.EDITORIAL BOARDS:Editorial Board: Journal of Narrative Ethics, 2012-presentEditorial Board: Journal of Jewish Ethics, 2013-presentEditorial Board: Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2010-2017Editorial Board: Stem Cells, 2004 to 2010.Editorial Board: A Journal of Bioethics. 2000 to 2012.Editorial Board: Journal of Textual Reasoning 2000-2017 Editorial Board: The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1994 to present.Editorial Board: Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. 2003 to present.Contributing Editor, National Board: The Park Ridge Center: A Journal of Health, Faith andEthics. 1999.Editorial Advisory Board: Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, for the project “Limited Access to Medical Treatment in an Age of Medical Progress: Developinga Christian Consensus.” 1998.Editorial Board: Shofar: The Journal of the Western/Midwestern Jewish Studies Association.1997-2003.REVIEWER FOR PUBLISHERS:Cell: Stem CellFaculty of 1000 The National Academies’ Guidelines For Human Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchCritical Care MedicineJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)Journal of Clinical EthicsAnnuals of Internal MedicineGeorgetown University PressThe Hastings Center ReportJohns Hopkins University PressMIT PressRoutledge PressOxford University PressNAS-IOM publicationsCOMMUNITY SERVICE________________________________________________________________________COMMUNITY BOARDS SERVED:Brady Project—Evanston Orchard Advisory Committee, 2013Academic Advisory, President Peres’s Conference on the Future, Israel, 2008, and 2011City of Evanston Environment Board Commission, 2011-2013Illinois Humanities Council, Advisory Board on Genetics and Science, 2006-2008Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Faculty Advisory Committee, Jewish Genetics, 2006- PresentHadassah Illinois State Planning Committee on Stem Cell Research, 2005.Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Faculty Advisory Committee, Jewish Studies, 2004-present.The Conversation: National Jewish Discourse Group, 2005-presentChicago Museum of Science and Industry Advisory Board, “Body Worlds” Exhibit, 2004-2005.Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry’s 21st Century Initiative Exploration Task Force,2003-2004.San Francisco Mayor W. Brown’s Host Committee, the Jewish Film Festival, National Premiere of “Blacks and Jews,” 1997.Alumni Council, Graduate Theological Union, 1995-mission On Jewish Continuity, Jewish Community Federation, 1993-1994.Dean’s Advisory Board, Graduate Theological Union, 1991-1992.Member, Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society) of the Greater East Bay, 1985-1992.Board of Directors, Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay, 1985-1990.Board of Directors, Congregation Beth Israel, Berkeley, 1985-missioner, City of Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission, 1985-1990.Board of Directors, B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, University of California, Berkeley, 1985-1988. Nurse Representative, California Nurses Association, Oakland Kaiser, 1982-1988.Graduate Student Representative, Board of Trustees, Graduate Theological Union, 1985-1986.Chief Shop Steward, Service Employees International Union, Local 250: Hospital Workers,Alta Bates Hospital, 1975-1981.UNIVERSITY SERVICE________________________________________________________________________University of Chicago, Divinity School, Undergraduate Teaching Committee 2019-presentUniversity of Chicago, Divinity School, Islam Search Committee 2019University of Chicago, Divinity School, on Scholarships and Awards 2019- presentNorthwestern University Academic Senate President 2016-2017Northwestern University President’s Committee on Provost Selection 2016Northwestern University Provost Committee on Excellence 2016Northwestern University Provost Committee on Women Faculty 2016Northwestern University Investment Committee 2016Northwestern University Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic ExperienceNorthwestern University John Evans Study CommitteeNorthwestern University Academic Senate, Vice President 2015Northwestern University Academic Senate Member, 2011- June 2013Northwestern University, Committee on Cause, 2011-June 2013Northwestern University, Committee on Faculty Handbook Northwestern University, Program Review Council, 2006-June 2013.Northwestern University General Faculty Council, President- 2008-2009.Northwestern University General Faculty Council, elected Member-at-Large, 2007-2010Northwestern University Center for Community Engagement, Faculty Advisory BoardNorthwestern University Brady Program, Chair, Faculty Advisory Board, 2005-2014Northwestern University Jewish Studies Program, Faculty Advisory Board, 2004-present Northwestern University Reproductive Medicine Program, U54 Faculty Advisory Board, 2005-presentNorthwestern University Embryonic Stem Cell Research Committee (ESCRO), 2008-presentNorthwestern University Fellow of Public Affairs Residential College, 2007-presentDean’s Humanities Council, Weinberg College of Arts and Science, Northwestern University,2006-2010.Dean’s Steering Committee, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2005-2009.Graduate School FacultyReligious Studies Department, organizer for “Religion and Science Colloquia 2010-2011”Religious Studies Department, co-organizer for “Interdisciplinary Conversations Colloquia 2009-2010.”Religious Studies Department, member, Graduate Program CommitteeReligious Studies Department, Graduate Advisor, Religion, Ethics and Public LifeFaculty Advisor, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Jewish StudentsMedical Organization, 2005-2009.Faculty Advisor, Hillel Foundation, 2010-presentFaculty Advisor, Student Pugwash Organization, (Ethics and Science) 2010-presentMember, Northwestern University IRB Special Review Committee, 2004.Member, SFSU University Human Relations Committee, 1996-2003.Member, SFSU College of Humanities Dean’s Council, 1996-2003.Member, SFSU Academic Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, 1999-2000.Member, SFSU University Academic Senate, 1997-2000.Member, SFSU Academic Senate Student Affairs Committee, 1997-1999.Member, SFSU University Interdisciplinary Council, 1998.Mentor Professor, SFSU, 1998.Co-Director, SFSU/Hillel/Hadassah Conference on Women and Jewish Life, 1998.Faculty Advisor, Panel Chair, SFSU History Department Conference, “Passing on the Truthful,” 1997.Member, Woman and Embodiment Conference SFSU Planning Committee, 1996-1997.Advisor to SFSU Student Organizations: Hillel/Jewish Student Organization.Advisor to SFSU Student Organizations: New Russian Immigrant Association.ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS___________________________________________________________Honorary Doctorate, American Jewish University 2020Second Place, National Jewish Book Award – Contemporary Jewish Life and PracticeClare Hall, Lifetime Member, University of CambridgeCharles Deering McCormick Professorship for Excellence in Teaching, Northwestern University, 2009American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Distinguished Service Award, 2007NASA Public Service Medal, 2005Graduate Theological Union Alumna of the Year, 2005Faculty Honor Roll Award, Northwestern University, 2005.Jefferson Society Teacher Recognition Award, University of Virginia, 2000.Hastings Fellow, elected 2000.San Francisco State Professional Merit Award, 2000.San Francisco State Professional Merit Award, 1999.San Francisco State University Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Service, 1998-1999.San Francisco State University: The President’s Research Award and Sabbatical, 1998.San Francisco State University Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching, 1997-1998.San Francisco State University Professional Performance Merit Award, 1997.San Francisco State University Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution toResearch, 1996.National Nursing Honor Society, inducted, 1991.Volunteer of the Year Award, Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay,1988.Phi Beta Kappa, University of California at Berkeley, 1974.NAMED LECTURESHIPS Burke Lecture on Religion and Science, University of California, November, 2018Harper Lecture, Denver Region, June, 2018Boisi Lecture, Prophetic Voices, Boston College, October, 2016Albert Gnaegi Lecture, St. Louis University, October 2013Inaugural Lecture: Religion, Ethics and Public Health, Emory University, April, 2014Daspit Lectures, Tulane University, September, 2012Anbar Lectures, Syracuse University, August, 2012Segal Lectures, Northwestern University, April 2012Larry and Erica Breslau Lecture, Kol HaLev Congregation, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2011Arthur and Anne W. Hale Johnston Lecture in Religion and Ethics, Colgate University, March, 2011Hadassah Australia-Israel Lectureship, Monash University, Australia, 2009 and 2010Bochner Lecture, Rice University, March 19, 2007.Pitts Memorial Lecture, Medical University of South Carolina, September, 8, 2006, Boyarsky Lectureship in Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Duke University, October 19, 2004.The Inaugural Annual Myron Zinn Memorial Maimonides Lecture, San Antonio, November 10, 2004.John P. McGovern Award Lectureship in the Art and Science of Medicine, March 31, 2004.Bernadin Lecutres, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, 2003.Franck Lectures in Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University, 2001Benjamin Freedman Lectureship, McGill University, 2000McElmury Lectureship, Andrews University, Michigan, April 9, 1999. Silbert Lectureship Speaker, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles,January 2000.Korngold Annual Lecture, San Francisco, California, May 1998GRANT AWARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH_____________________________________Brocher Foundation Fellowship, 2018Clare Hall Fellowship 2014American Academy of Religion Researchers Fellowship, 1999.San Francisco State University Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1997.Graduate Theological Union, American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical LiteratureScholarship, 1992.GRANTS AUTHORED AND DIRECTED_________________________________________________________Principal Investigator: “Making Good: Religious and Moral Considerations in Synthetic Biology.” Alice Kaplan Center for Humanities at Northwestern 2010-2011/Co-PI: “Synthetic Ribosomes for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Synthesizing Life.” National Academies of Science, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, (Keck-NAKFI)PI: for Bioethics: “Ethical and Religious Issues in Oncofertility” National Institute of Health, Road Map Grant, as part of the RO1D for Social Issues in Oncofertility.PI: for Bioethics: “Ethical and Social Issues in Nanotechnology” as part of the NSEC Center grant, National Science Foundation at Northwestern International Institute for Nanotechnology.Co-PI: “Family, Identity, Ethnicity, and Citizenship after the Human Genome Project.” National Institutes of Health, the Program on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome, (NIH-ELSI) SFSU and the University of Minnesota Bioethics Center, 1999-2005.PI: International Jewish Discourse Project: On Religion and Ethics at the Frontier of Genetic Medicine, SFSU and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001-2004.Primary Author: “Haas Family Fund for the Chair in Jewish Community Service,” 1999-2002.Koret Challenge Grant I, II, and III and Koret Three Year Grant for Jewish Studies, withCarol Hayashino. 1997-2000.Primary Investigator: San Francisco State University Centennial Project Grant, 1999.Primary Investigator: San Francisco State University Assessment Project Grant, 1999.Co-author and Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: The SanFrancisco State Jewish Studies Program, 1998. (Funded for matching at $396,000)Primary author: Der Arbeiter Ring Library Donation (Yiddish and Judaica Library donated tothe SFSU program.) 1998.Primary Author: “Teaching the Holocaust: Different Voices,” from the Jewish CommunityEndowment Fund, Fall 1997.Co-author: “The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Ethics and Social Responsibility,” with Paul Fonteyn, 1996. (SFSU’s first endowed chair)GRANT PARTICIPATION______________________________________________________________________Build-a-Cell Workshops, National Science Foundation Travel and Education Project, 2019SYNBERC National Science Foundation, Synthetic Biology Project, Chair, Strategic Advisory BoardUniversity of Chicago Project on Adolescent Depression, DSMB, 2013 Carter Center, Women and Religions International Workshop, June, 2013. NIH Genetic Ancestry Study, September, 2013.NSF STEM and Women in Engineering: Challenges and New Directions, Washington DC, May, 2011. NAIDS New Ethical Challenges in Multi-Center Trials, Stephen Wolinksy, P1, May, 2011Brookings Institution, Religion and Liberty of Conscience, June, 2011. Conference Organizer: NIH CTSA Clinical Research Ethics: Key Function Committee (CRE-KFC) Face to Face Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2010.NIH Training Grant: Reproductive Medicine, Teresa Woodruff, PI. 2010.NIH Roadmap: Oncofertility Consortium: Fertility Preservation for Women (2007-present ),Teresa Woodruff, PI.NIH: Training Grant: Training a New Generation of Scientists for Regeneration Medicine (2006), John Kessler, Director.NSF: National Center for Nanotechnology (NSEC), PI for Ethics and Society, 2004-presentAging, Genetic Testing & the Future, Catherine Read, Boston College, 2005.Scriptural Reasoning Theory Group, David Ford and Dan Hardy, (Cambridge University)directing, 2003 to present.Program on Biotechnology, Religion, and Ethics, Andrew Lustig, directing. (Ford Foundation)Coordinator of Hybridization Section, 2003 to 2004.NIH Ethical Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, the University ofHealth Sciences, Portland, Oregon, (NIH) “Family Notification and Breast CancerTesting,”2000-2003.American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and American Society for Law, Medicine,and Ethics, task force on conflicts of interests in consultation, Brody and Dubler,directing, (Greenwall Foundation,) 2001.American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Status of the Field committee report,Rothenberg, directing, (Greenwall Foundation,) 2001.California Health Technology Assessment Panel, Human Stem Cells, (California State)2001.Hastings Center, Expanding Hospice Care Project, 2000-2001.American Association for the Advancement of Science National Board for the Dialogue between Religion and Science, and Project on the Ethical, Religious, and Social Implications of Germ Line Intervention, 1998-2001.Invited participant, Liberty Fund Conferences on “Genes and Responsibility,” 2001; “Locke, Pierre Bayle, and The Freedom of Conscience,” March 1999; Pre-Commitment Contracts and Individual Liberty,” Houston, 1999; “”The Practice of Medicine in a `Free Society,” Houston, 1998; “Hayak, Civil Order, and Society,” Eric Mack, GrantDirector, Albuquerque, March 1998. “Free Choices of Individuals in Society: HealthCare,” Baruch Brody, Grant Director, Houston, April 1997.American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Board for the Dialogue between Religion and Science, Stem Cell Research Project, 1999-2000.University of California, Humanities Center Project on Error in Medicine, 1999-2000.University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley Project on the Moral Education of Physicians, Bolinas, 1999.Religious Consultation on Reproduction, Health, Population, and Ethics, International Grants(Pew Foundation) “Abortion,” 1999. “What Men Owe to Women,” 1998. Summer Seminars in Jewish Studies, Web Training and Curriculum Development: San Jose State, 1998 and Chico State University, 1999.University of California, School of Public Health, Ethics and Reproductive Incentives Project,1998.Textual Reasonings, Drew University, New Jersey, funded by the NationalEndowment for the Humanities, 1997.Planning Committee, “The Children’s Hospital of Oakland Sickle Cell Project Grant, “Ethicsand the Community in Sickle Cell Disease,” National Institutes of Health, 1997.Stanford University Joint Conference on Model State Guidelines for Ethical Standards forPhysician-Assisted Suicide, Dr. Barbara Koenig, directing, September 1996.Editorial Board for Project, 1997.University of Victoria, The Centre for Religion and Society/Ford Foundation, ReligiousConversations on Population, Consumption, and Ecology, Jewish Ethics sourcesoffered, Professor Harold Coward, directing, 1995-1997.Veteran’s Administration New Technology Assessment Project, Served as faculty ethicistat National Conference, Mitchell Sugarman, directing, 1995.Pew Health Professions Commission, Project on Curriculum Development for the ManagedCare Provider. Served as Ethicist on the California Curriculum Development Team,Drs. Keith Marton and Lucia Sommers, directing, 1995.NIH Ethical Social and Legal Implications of the Human Genome Project, National AdvisoryCommittee, Project on Theological and Ethical Questions of Justice, Ted Peters, directing, 1995.Hastings Center, National Report on Bioethics Education, 1991.INVITED PRESENTATIONS IN THE MEDIA_____________________________________________________ NPR, Ethical Issues in CRISPR for Sickle Cell Disease, and Ethics of First Use in Humans, and Ethics Embryo Research, 2020NPR, National, Ethics of Clinical Trials, 2018WBUR Boston and ; KCRW, Los Angeles, and NPR Science Friday: Synthentic Human Genome, 2016WBEZ, Climate Change and the Sabbatical Year. 2014Discovery Magazine, Synthetic Biology, October, 2013NPR, WBEZ, Bioethics, April, 2013NPR, WBEZ, Influenza and Vaccination, January, 2013Al Jezeera International, Stem Cell Research, April, 2012Time Magazine interview: Trends in Stem Cell Research, 2010, JulyWashington Post August, Stem Cells and First Trials.AP interview, Nobel Prize and Reproduction, July, 2010Cybrid Research Interview, Nature, October 23rd, 2009.ReachMD Radio Interview, January 19th, 2009.NPR – ISSCR Interview, February 12, 2009.WTTW on Stem Cells and Octuplets, February 5, 2009.ABC Good Morning America on Stem Cells and FDA Approval, February 2009.“Government Approves Study Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells.” Washington Post, January 26, 2009.“14 Children!” Chicago Tribune, February 3, 2009.“’Stem Cell Tourism’ called risky biz” Boston Herald, February 8, 2009.“Stem Cell Debate Looks Beyond Scandal” MSNBC/Today Show, February 15, 2009.“Truthtelling,” CBS2, Chicago, 2008“Stem Cells Research takes a New Turn” CBS National News, January, 2008“Katrina: Life and Death Decisions” ABC News“Implications of Korean Research Scandal” The McNeil Lehrer News Hour, PBS, December, 2005“Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” Voice of America, August 3, 2005.“Speaking of Faith,” NPR’s Eight Forty-Eight, March 6, 2005.“Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” Total Living Television Network’s Newsmakers. TLN, February 23, 2005.“Science and Religion,” NPR Science Friday, January 21, 2005.“Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Illinois,” Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight,November 24, 2004.“Stem Cell Research,” NPR Science Friday, October 15, 2004.“Genetics,” Chicago Public Radio, September, 2004“Space Research and Exploration,” January, 2004, Chicago Public Television“Speaking of Faith,” NPR, Spring, 2003“Space Tragedy and Exploration,” February, 2003, Chicago Public TelevisionJOURNALISMStaff Columnist, Cosmos Magazine, , “The Philosopher’s Corner,” monthly1000 word columns on bioethics and science. 2013- 2017EXPERT WITNESS_____________________________________________________________________________William Thomas O’Conner v. Division of Medical Quality Medical Board of CaliforniaDepartment of Consumer Affairs State of California, (for the defense) 2000.Monica Rochlin v. Health Net (Informed consent, marketing practices, for the plaintiff;Michael Bidard, Esq.) 1997.Linda Schneider (Treatment withdrawal, informed consent, for the defense; Randy Andrada,Esq.) 1997.Robert Wendland (Treatment withdrawal, surrogate decision making, for the defense;, W. Stephen Scott, Esq.) 1996-1997.Norcal Insurance Company (Medical Malpractice, Jehovah’s Witness, truth telling, informedconsent, for the defense; Norcal Research Staff), 1995.ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS__________________________________________________________________________-BOOKS AUTHORED:Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice, University of North Carolina Press (1999).Ethics of the Coming Story: Global Warming and Jewish Philosophy(submitted to publishers, 2020)The Second Text: Writing a Jewish Bioethics (submitted to Stanford University Press, 2019)May We Make the World?: The Ethics of Gene Drives and the Challenge of Malaria (submitted to publishers, 2020) BOOKS EDITED:Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought. Edited with Elliot Dorff. University Press (Jewish Publication Society, 2015) (finalist, National Jewish Book Awards, 2016Oncofertility: Reflections from Ethical, Religious, Legal, Social and Medical Perspective, Edited by Laurie Zoloth, Teresa Woodruff, Sarah Rodriquez and Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Springer Press, 2010.The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics and Public Policy, edited with Karen Lebacqz and Suzanne Holland, MIT Press (2001).Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in the Practice of Medicine, edited with Susan Rubin, University Press Publishing (2000).Notes from a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics, edited with Dena Davis, University Press Publishing (1999).BOOK CHAPTERS:“The Language Beyond Silence:” Margarete Susman and the Theology of Response” in Reflections on Interfaith Conversations, edited by Irving Greenberg, NYU Press, 2019“Everybody Hates the Prophet: Failure and the Good Society in Jewish Political Theology” in The Handbook of Political Theology, edited by Ruben Rosario-Rodrigues, Bloomsbury Press, 2019 “There Never Was and There Never Will Be One;” in Religion and Violence in Scripture, Julia Synder and Daniel Weiss, editors, Cambridge University Press, 2019“Risky Hospitality: Ordinal Ethics and the Duties of Abundance,” in The Urgency of Climate Change: Pivotal Perspectives, edited by Gerald Magill and Kiarash Aramesh, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK., 2017“Making a Place: Jewish Views on Climate and Crisis, “ in Nature as a Force, edited by James Keenen, Cambridge 2019 “Suffering in Jewish Tradition,” In Suffering and Bioethics, edited by Ronald Green, Oxford University Press, (2014) “Suffering: A Jewish View” Ethics and Suffering: Values, Religion and Law, edited by Ian Kerridge and Chris Jordens, University of Sydney. (2015), and “Religion and Family Planning: Jewish Perspectives,” Ethics and Families: Values, Religion and Law, Bridget Haire, University of Sydney, editor ( 2015) Publications of the Center for Values, Religion and Law.“Religion and Third Party Reproduction,” in Perspectives on Third Party Reproduction, Springer, 2013.“Justice in the Margins of the Land: Jewish Responses to the Challenges of Biotechnology ” in Routledge Companion to Religion and Science, edited by J.Haag, G. Peterson, M.Spezio, Routledge Press, 2011. “Second Hand Children: A Jewish Ethics of Foster Care in an Age of Desire” in Children, Adults and Shared Responsibiliies, Religion and Childhood Series. Edited by Marcia Bunge, Cambridge University Press) 2013“The Letters and The World: Jewish Views on Genetic Science,” in Oxford Handbook on Jewish Ethics, edited by Elliott Dorff and Jonathan Crane, 2012 “Person, Polis, Risk, Need and Uncertainty: Justice and Consent in Emerging Technology,” in Ethics and Policy in Nanotechnology and the Environment, David Dana, Editor, Cambridge University Press., 2011“Crossing the Border at Nightfall: The Schiavo Case, Faith and Ethics,” The Case of Terry Schiavo, Oxford University Press, (2010).“To Make is to Know: The Ethical Issues in Human Tissue Engineering” in Foundations of Regenerative Medicine eds. Anthony Atala, Robert Lanza, James Thomson, and Robert Nerem. (Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2009).“The Hospitable World: The Very Hard Problem of Justice”” Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy and Politics. Edited by Jonathan Moreno and Sam Berger. MIT Press, 2009.“The Alexandria Plan: What We Have In Common. Creating Libraries For Human Tissue Research and Therapeutic Use” in The Ethics of Research: Biobanking. edited by Jan Solbakk., Springer Press 2009. “Mistakenness and the Nature of the ‘Post”: The Ethics and the Inevitability of Error in Theoretical Work.” In Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict eds. P. C. Salzman and D. R. Divine, Oxford: Routledge, 2008.“The Ethics of Aging: Question of Ends at the End of Life”in Aging, Biotechnolgoy, and the Future, edited by Catherine Y. Read, Robert C. Green, and Michael A. Smyer, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).“Second Life: Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology” in The Ethics of Protocells—Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory, edited by Mark Bedau and Emily C Parke, MIT Press,2009.“There is the World, There is the Map of the World” in The Contingent Nature of Life: Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence, ed. Marcus Duewell, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Dietmar Meith, Holland, Springer, 2008 “The Machine and the Body: Ethical and Religious Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices,” with Courtney S. Campbell, David Loy, James F. Keenan, Kathleen Matthews, and Terry Winograd in Altering Nature, Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy, ed. by B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny.?Dordrecht: Springer 2008.“Today’s Research, Tomorrow’s Cures: The Ethical Implications of Oncofertility” with Leilah Backhus, in Oncofertility, ed. by Teresa Woodruff and Karrie Synder, in the Cancer Treatment and Research, vol. 138 series; Springer: New York, 2008. “Fertility Preservation and Adolescent Cancer Patients: Lessons from Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer and Their Parents” with Carrie L. Nieman, Karen E. Kinahan, Susan E. Yount, Sarah K. Rosenbloom, Kathleen J. Yost, Elizabeth A. Hahn, Timothy Volpe, Kimberley J. Dilley, and Teresa K. Woodruff, in the Cancer Treatment and Research, vol. 138 series; Springer: New York, 2008. “Ethical Issues,” in Principles of Tissue Engineering, 3rd ed., edited by Robert Lanza, Robert Langer, and Joseph Vacanti, Elsievier Press, (2007).“Religion and the Public Discourse of Bioethics,” in Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology, edited by David Steinberg, University Press of New England: Lebanon, NH, 2007. “I Want You: An Ethics of Hospitality for Bioethics,” The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, edited by Felicia Cohn and Lisa Eckenwiler, John Hopkins University, (forthcoming June 2007).“In Case: Contingency and Particularity in Bioethics: Discursive Method and Clinical Midrash Brief Notes on a Lesson from my teach Baruch Brody,” Pluralistic Casuistry: Balancing Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory, edited by Cherry and Iltis, Philosophy and Medicine, 94 Springer, Netherlands, 2007. “A Winter’s Tale: Bioethics Confronts Avian Flue,” in Ethics and Epidemics, Volume 9, edited by John Balint, Robert Baker, Martin Strosberg, and Sean Philpott , JAI Press, (2006). “Learning a Practice in Uncertainty: Clinical Ethics and the Nurse,” in Current Issues in Nursing, edited by Perle Cowen, Mosby-Elsievier Press, (2006). “Stem Cells: Ethical Considerations,” in Handbook of Stem Cell Biology, edited Robert Lanza, Elsievier Press, (2006). “Immortal Cells, Moral Selves: The Ethical Considerations of Human Stem Cell Research,” in Celulas troncales, Aspectos cientificos-filosocos y juridicos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006.“The Shomer -- Qualities of Mercy and Quality of Life: Arguments from Jewish Bioethics,” in Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics, edited by Noam J. Zohar, Lexington Books, 2006.“Being in the World: Neuroethics and Moral Agency,” in Neuroethics, edited by Judith Illes,Oxford University Press, 2005.“Immortal Cells, Moral Selves,” in Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, edited by Robert Lanza, et al,Academic Press, 2005.“Care of the Dying in America," in Prozac and Enhancement, edited by Carl Elliott and Tod Chambers, University of North Carolina Press, 2004.“Immortal Cells, Moral Selves,” in Handbook of Stem Cells, Volume 1, edited by Robert Lanza, et al, Academic Press, 2004, pp 747-757.“Into the Woods: Women and the Problem of Evil,” in Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Indiana University Press, 2004."Uncountable as the Stars: A Jewish View of Inheritable Genetics Interventions," in Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modification, edited by Marc Frankel, and Audrey Chapman, Johns Hopkins Press, 2003.“Taking His Hand, He Raised Him From The Bed: Judaism, Healing and the Pursuit of Justice,” in The Ethics of Health, edited by Barry D. Cytron, Liturgical Press, 2003. “Freedoms, Duties, and Limits: The Ethics of Stem Cell Research,” in God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning, edited by Brent Waters and Ronald Cole-Turner, Georgetown University Press, 2003, pp. 141-151.“Reflections in the Darkest Mirror: Burial Ritual in the Jewish Community, and the Narrative Of Care,” in Care and Narrative in Bioethics, edited by Paul Laritzen and Diana Fritz Cates, Georgetown University Press, 2002. “Like an Open Book: Reliability, Intersubjectivity and Textuality In Bioethics,” with Rita Charon, in Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics, edited by Rita Charon and Martha Montello, Routledge Press, 2002.“Each One a World: Family Planning, a Jewish View,” in Ten World Religions: Family Planning, edited by Daniel McGuire, Oxford, 2002."Seeing the Doubting Judge: Post-Modernity and the Ethical Task," in Textual Reasonings, edited by Peter Ochs and Stanley Hauerwas, Fortress Press, 2002.“A Walk in the Park” and “When You Wish Upon a Star, Makes No Difference Who You Are: Disneyland and the Illness Pilgrimage” in Riding on Faith: Disneyland, Religion, and Popular Culture, edited by Laurie Zoloth and Simon Harek, Duke (submitted, 2002).“The Ethics of the Eighth Day: Jewish Bioethics and Research on Human Embryonic Stem Cells” and “Jordan’s Banks: A View from the First Years of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” in The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, MIT Press, 2001.“Locations in Jazz and Gender,” in Jewish Locations, edited by Lisa Tessman and Bat-Ami Bar On, Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.“Responding to Limiting Access to Medical Treatment in an Age of Medical Progress: Developing a Catholic Consensus from a Jewish Perspective," in Limiting Access to Medical Treatment in an Age of Medical Progress: Developing a Catholic Consensus, Tris Engleheardt, editor, Kluwer Press, 2001.“Born Again: Cloning, Death and Rebirth,” in Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research, edited by Paul Lauritzen, Oxford University Press, 2001.“Job Openings for Philosophers in Oregon: Philosophers and Physician Assisted Suicide,” in The Series in Medicine and Philosophy: Physician Assisted Suicide, edited by Loretta Koppelman, Kleuer Press, 2001.“Out of the Depths I Call to You: Sin, Redemption and the Conversation,” in Christianity in Jewish Terms, edited by David Sandmel, Westview Press/Perseus, 2000.“Nursing as the Existential Messenger: Ethics and Pain at the End of Life,” with Karen Stanley, in Textbook of Palliative Nursing Care, edited by Betty Ferrell and Nessa Coyle, Oxford Press, 2000.“Faith and Reasoning(s): Bioethics, Religion and the Post-Modern Discourse” and “Articles of Faith,” in Notes From a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics, edited with Dena Davis, University Press Publishing, 1999.“Dead Wrong” and “In the Margins of the Margins,” in Margin of Error: The Inevitability and Ethics of Mistakes in Bioethics and Medicine, edited by Laurie Zoloth and Susan Rubin, University Press Publishing, 1999.“Now You are One of Us: Gender, Reversibility and The Good Read,” in Walker Percy and the Last Physician, edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos, Duke University Press, 1999.“Promises of Exiles,” in Religious Conversations on Population, Consumption and Ecology, edited by Harold Coward, State University of New York Press, 1999.“Managing Care for Seriously and Chronically Ill Children” and “Choice of Venue and Provider Under Capitation,” with Susan Rubin, in Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook, Georgetown University Press, 1999.“A Jewish Perspective: Stewards of the Earth,” in The Family Handbook, The Family, Religion, and Culture Series, edited by Don S. Browning, et al, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.“The Befallen Community: The Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Pain,” in Evaluationand Treatment of Pain, 3rd Edition, edited by Gerald M. Aronoff, Williams and Wilkins, 1998. “Just Managing: Ethical Obligations and Managed Care,” in Current Issues in Nursing, edited by Joanne McCloskey and Helen Grace, Mosby, 5th ed., 1997 and 6th ed., 2000. "Mapping the Normal Human Self: The Jew and the Mark of Otherness,” in Genetics, edited by Ted Peters, Pilgrim Press, 1997. “The Ethics of Encounter: Public Choices and Private Acts," in Contemporary JewishEthics and Morality, edited by Louis Newman and Elliott Dorff, Oxford University Press, 1995.“Community and Conscience,” in Health Care Crisis? The Search for Answers, edited by Robert Misbin, University Publishing Group (a Hastings Center Project), 1995.“Methodology,” in Making Moral Community, Bioethics Consultation Group, 1992.“Jewish Ethics,” with Samuel Wineburg, in A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics, edited by Mark Jurgensmeyer, Cambridge University Press, 1991.ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:“Genetics and Religion,” Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, vol. 5, ed. Lindsay Jones, New York: Macmillan Publishing 2004, pp. 3247-3431.“Genetics and Human Self-Understanding,” The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Post, New York: Macmillan Publishing 2004, pp. 985-992.“Abortion – Religious Traditions: Jewish Perspectives,” The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Macmillan Publishing Co., 2004. “Judaism, Contemporary Issues in Science and Religion,” Encyclopedia of Science and Religion,Macmillan Publishing, 2003.“Bioethics” and “Abortion,” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religions, Macmillan Publishing, 1999.“Ethics: An Overview,” Encyclopedia of Women and World Religions, Serenity Young, Editor-in-Chief, Macmillian Publishing, 1998.PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES:“At the Last Well on Earth: Why Climate Change is a Feminist Issue,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, (2018)“You Must Interrupt Your Life: Presidential Address,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, May, 2016 “What Can We Know?: Ethics and Testimony in the first 10 years of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” Zoloth, L. and Solbakk, JH, under review at the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, (2017) Citizenship: Bioethics and the Duties of Teachers,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, June, 2015. . “We All Stumble Over Each Other,” Journal of Political Theology, Summer 2015“Risky Hospitality: The Ethics of Climate Change.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, May 2015 “Recommendation by a law body to ban infant male circumcision has serious worldwide implications for pediatric practice and human rights.”, Michael J Bates,?John B Ziegler,?Sean E Kennedy,?Adrian Mindel,Alex D Wodak, Laurie S Zoloth,?Aaron Ar Tobian,?Brian J Morris, BMC Pediatrics 09/2013; 13(1):136.?· “Pathways toward the future: points to consider for oncofertility oversight.”, Sarah B Rodriguez,?Lisa Campo-Engelstein,?Marla L Clayman,?Caprice Knapp,?Gwendolyn Quinn,?Laurie Zoloth,Linda Emanuel, Journal of Cancer Survivorship?12/2012; DOI:10.1007/s11764-012-0255-5“A Framework for Human Microbiome Research,” The Human Microbiome Consortium, (L. Zoloth, included) Nature, June 2012, Vol 486, page 215. “A critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision for HIV prevention in developed countries, “ AIDS Care 2012 Dec;24(12):1565-75. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2012.661836. Epub 2012 Mar 28, Morris BJ,?Bailey RC,?Klausner JD,?Leibowitz A,? HYPERLINK "" Wamai RG,? HYPERLINK "" Waskett JH,?Banerjee J,?Halperin DT,?Zoloth L,?Weiss HA,?Hankins CA. “The Tragedy of Translation: The Case of First Use Human Embryonic Stem Cells” J.Solbakk and L Zoloth, Cell: Stem Cell, Vol. 8, Issue 5, 479-481, 6 May 2011.“Paved With Good Intentions: Rethinking the Ethics of ELSI Research,” D. Seltzer, C.Traina, L. Kiesling, L. Zoloth, Journal of Research Administration, Vol. 42. Number. 7.“Posthumous Reproduction and Palliative Care,” Journal of Palliative Medicine, Knapp C, Quinn G, Bower B, Zoloth L: August 2011, (8) 895-898.“Designer Life: Perils and Promises of Synthetic Biology, DeVos Ethics Colloquium, invited papers, Vol 14. January, 2012. “Palestinian Health Alliance: Politics, Prejudice or Evidence Based Science? The Lancet, John Cohen, Paul Appelbaum, Laurie Zoloth, Steven Albert, July, 2010Zoloth, L and Henning, A. “A Jewish Response to the Vatican?” in American Journal of Bioethics. 2009, November;9(11):37-9.Ethics Report on Interspecies Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Research. New ISSCR Guidelines Underscore Major Principles for Responsible Translational Stem Cell Research. Cell: Stem Cell, Volume 3, Issue 6, 607-609, 4 December 2008New Guidelines for Cyborg and Chimeras: Defining the Limits of Creation, Hwang, Insoo, Zoloth, Laurie Cell: Stem Cell, 2009.“Like/As: Metaphor and Meaning in Bioethics Narrative.” American Journal of Bioethics. June 2008.“Go and tend the earth: a Jewish view on an enhanced world.” Journal of Law and Medical Ethics, 36, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 10-25“Synthesizing Biosecurity” with Steven Maurer in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 63, no. 6 (November/December 2007): 16-18.“Mistakenness and the Nature of the ‘Post’: The Ethics and the Inevitability of Error in Theoretical Work,” in Israel Affairs 13, no. 4 (October 2007): 757-773.“Ethical Standards for Human-to-Animal Chimera Experiments in Stem Cell Research”. CellStemCell 1(2):159-63 (August 16, 2007).“Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Progenitor Cell- based Strategies for Prevention of Atherosclerosis” with Jeremy Sugarman, Ruth Faden, Alta Charo, Dan Sulmasy Holly Taylor, Jeff Kahn, Jonathan Moreno, Hasan Shanawani, Haywood Brown, Hilary Bok, Joanne Kurtzberg Josh Hare, Ken Manton, Pascal Goldschmidt, and S. Liao in Journal of Medical Ethics 33, no. 11 (2007): 643-646. “Commentary: International Society for Stem Cell Research Guidelines” and “International Stem Cell Research Guidelines” as a member of the ISSCR Task Forces on Ethics and Standards, Science, Feb. 2, 2007. “Waiting to Be Born: The Ethical Implications of the Generation of ‘NUBorn’ and ‘NUAge’ Mice from Pre-Pubertal Ovarian Tissue” American Journal of Bioethics, June, 2008.“A Winters Tale: Don’t Be Chicken: Bioethics Confronts the Threat of Asian Flu, American Journal of Bioethics, January, 2006.“Why be Good?: Response to the Reasons of the Scripture,” The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Vol. 5, No. 2 August 2005.“Clinical Ethics and the Road Less Taken: Mapping the Future by Tracking the Past,” with Susan Rubin, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 32, Summer 2004: 218-225.“Taking the Stem Cell Debate to the Public,” with Leonard Zon and Suzanne Kadereit in PloS Biology, June 2004, Vol. 2, Issue 6, p. 0730, .“Yearning for the Long Lost Home: Jewish Genetics Communities Found in Africa,” Developing World Bioethics, Volume 3, Number 2, 2003.“Double Talk and Double Vision: Creating a Science Research Policy on Human Cloning,” Health Affairs, Volume 22, Number 1, January/February 2003."Reasonable Magic: Ethics and Limits in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, The Franck Memorial Lecture, 2001," Kennedy Institute Journal of Bioethics, March 2002. “Conflicts of Interest in Consultation: a Task Force Report,” with Baruch Brody, Nancy Dubler, Jeffrery Berger, Jeffrey Kahn, Jeremy Sugarman, Arthur Caplan, Bernand Lo, and Nancy Kass, Hastings Center Report, February 2002.“Just Bioethics in an Unjust World,” The Hastings Center Report, January 2002.“Keeping Company: Bioethics and the Talk in The Commons,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Winter, 2002.“Stem Cell Research: a Target Article, Part I. Jordan's Banks,” A Journal of Bioethics, Winter, 2002.“Justice as Cardiovascular Therapy,” A Journal of Bioethics, Fall, 2001. “Seeing the Duties to All: Conflicts of Interest in Bioethics Consultation,” The Hastings Center Report, March 2001.“Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers: Toward a Distinctively Jewish View of Reproductive Ethics,” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 21, 2001.“Making the Things of the World: Narrative and the Project of Bioethics,” A Journal of Bioethics, Spring, 2001.“Her Work Sings Her Praise: A Feminist Jewish Business Ethics,” The Journal of Business Ethics, Special Edition: Religion and Business Ethics, editor, Stewart Herman, Fall 2000.“Religion and Bioethics,” The Laney-Hitchcock Journal, Fall, 1999."The Best Laid Plans: The History and the Promise of Managed Care Medicine," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Fall, 1999.“The Nature of the Self in Judaism,” Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Summer, 1999.“The Ethics of Experimentation with Human Embryonic Stem Cells,” with Karen LeBacqz, Ted Peters, and Michael Mendiola, a Report of the Steering Committee of the Geron Ethics Advisory Board, Hastings Center Report, Spring, 1999. “Reading Like a Girl: Is There a Jewish Bioethics for Women?” Judaism, Spring, 1999. “Dying the Good Death: Ethical Considerations at the End of Life: The Physician and the Inevitably Dying Patient,” Annals of Long Term Care, November 1998.“Our Bodies, Our Cells: Feminist Ethics and the New Reproductive Technology,” Feminist Collections, University of Wisconsin Press, Summer, 1998. "Insider Trading: Conscience and Critique in Bioethics," with Susan Rubin, Healthcare Ethics Committee Journal (HEC), Spring, 1998. "Navigators and Captains: Expertise in Clinical Ethics Consultation," with Susan Rubin, Theoretical Medicine, Spring, 1998."Futility is in the Eye of the Beholder: Ethical Decisions in the Face of Despair," Healthcare Forum, December 1997."Imagining Perfection: Making Limits on the Reproduction of the Self," MedicalHumanities Review, Summer, 1997."Audience and Authority: The Story in Front of the Story," The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Spring, 1997.“Medical Futility and Ethics in Managed Care,” with Susan Rubin, Healthcare Forum, March/April 1997."She Said/He Said: Ethics Consultation and the Gendered Discourse," with Susan Rubin, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Winter, 1997. "What it Takes to Make a Just Society," Tikkun, September 1996."Healthcare Consolidation Raises Ethical Questions," with Susan Rubin, Modern Healthcare, August 1996."Moralities of Scale: Mergers and Medical Ethics," with Susan Rubin, Modern Healthcare, August 1996."The Patient as Commodity: Managed Care and the Question of Ethics," with Susan Rubin, Gilfix Elderlaw NewsAlert, adapted from The Journal of Clinical Ethics article with a focus on Elderlaw, February 1996."The Patient as Commodity: Managed Care and the Question of Ethics," with Susan Rubin,The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Winter, 1996."Face To Face, Not Eye to Eye: Further Discussions in Jewish Bioethics," The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Fall, 1995.“Travels with Children: Ethics of Ordinary Life,” Tikkun, June 1995."Reading and Reading Ruth," Tikkun, April 1995."HIV and Pregnancy: A Call for Informed Refusal for all Pregnant Women," 1995 Yearbook of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Klaus and Fanaroff, editors, Mosby Press, 1995."Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Retrospective Analysis of Population Based Genetic Screening Programs,” 1995 Yearbook of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Klaus and Fanaroff, editors, Mosby Press, 1995."One of These Mornings I'm Going to Rise Up Singing: The Necessity of the Prophetic Voice in Jewish Bioethics,” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 1995."Postmodernism and the Feminist Construct," Sh'ma, February 1995. "Standing At the Gate: Managed Care and Daily Ethical Choices," Managed Care Medicine, Haavi Morreim, Guest Editor, November-December 1994. "First Person Plural: Community and Method in Ethics Consultation," with Susan Rubin, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Spring, 1994."Abortion: a Response," Tikkun, September 1993."Notes on the Aladdin Problem: Genetic Counseling and Pre-natal Diagnosis," a review article in 1993 Yearbook of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Klaus and Fanaroff, editors, Mosby Press, 1993."First Make Meaning: The Ethics of Encounter in Health Care Reform," Tikkun, July 1993.INVITED JOURNAL ARTICLES“Designer Life: Perils and Promises of Synthetic Biology, DeVos Ethics Colloquium, invited papers, Volume 14., 2012. Faculty of 1000 Medicine, Article Review of: “Reprogramming of T cells from human peripheral blood,”).” Loh, YH, O Hartung, et alPublished in Cell Stem Cell 2010 Jul 7(1):15-19, Laurie Zoloth and Daniel Seltzer:Faculty of 1000 Medicine, 21 Jun?2010 , Article Review of: “Carbon nanotubes degraded by neutrophil myeloperoxidase induce less pulmonary inflammation.” Kagan VE, Konduru NV, Feng W, Allen BL, et al. Published in Nat Nanotechnol 2010 May 5(5):354-9, Laurie Zoloth and Daniel Seltzer:Faculty of 1000 Medicine, 10 Mar?2010 Article Review of: “Willful modulations of brain activity in disorders of consciousness.” Monti MM, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Coleman MR, Boly M, Pickard JD, Tshibanda L, Owen AM, Laureys S. Published in N Engl J Med 2010 Feb 18 362(7):579-89, Laurie Zoloth and Daniel Seltzer:Faculty of 1000 Medicine, 15?Jan?2010 Article Review of: “iPS cells can support full-term development of tetraploid blastocyst-complemented embryos.” Kang L, Wang J, Zhang Y, Kou Z, Gao S. Published in Cell Stem Cell 2009 Aug 7 5(2):135-8, Laurie Zoloth and Daniel Seltzer:Faculty of 1000 Medicine, 12?Oct?2009 , Article Review of: “Can Nanotechnology be Just? On Nanotechnology and the Emerging Movement for Global Justice” Jamison, A. Published in Nanoethics 2009 “Under the Fallen Sky” Harvard Divinity School Journal:, June, 2008 “Giving Credit Where Credit is Due,” The Howard Hughes Bulletin, September 2001.“VaErah,” Torah Aura, December 1998.“The Concern for the Poor in Judaism,” Vedanta Kesari, Bombay, India, December 1998.“Passing Through: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm,” The Magazine: The Journal of the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University, Spring, 1999. "Why We Can't Just Say No," with Susan Rubin, Futility: Module 7, The Decisions at The End of Life Project, Educational Consultants, Boston, 1997 and the Hastings Center, New York, 1997“Facing Each Other: Teaching About Black-Jewish Relations and the Media,” Diversity Digest, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Spring, 1997."Ethics: A Response," 1989 Yearbook of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Klaus and Fanaroff, editors, Mosby Press, 1989."Dilemmas in Pediatric AIDS" and "Decisionmaking in the NICU," two review articles in1992 Yearbook of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Klaus and Fanaroff, editors, Mosby Press, 1992."The AIDS Patient and the Last ICU Bed: Scarcity, Medical Futility, and Ethics," Quality Review Bulletin, Joint Commission of Hospital Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, June 1991. "Survival of the Fittest: Health Care Meets Competition," The Bulletin of the Centerfor Ethics and Social Policy, Winter 1993.“The Silence in the Public Square: Universal Coverage and Social Responsibility,” Ethical Alternatives and Managed Care, National Council of Churches, New York, December 1996.JOURNALISM Staff Columnist, Cosmos Magazine, 2013- present, “The Philosopher’s Corner,” a monthly column on bioethics and science. PEER JURIED ACADEMIC PAPERS DELIVERED“Hidden in Plain Sight: “Transparent” and the Shoah in Jewish Memory,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2016.“Reading Your Neighbor’s Scripture, “American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2016.“Still Interrupting: Climate Change and the Academy,”American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2016. “Genetics: Information and Knowledge,”, University of Illinois, Hillel Meeting on Jewish Genetic Testing. February 1, 2015.“Risky Hospitality” Plenary Speech, American Academy of Religion, Southwestern Region, February 14, 2015.“Jewish Thought and Jewish Bioethics,” Duke University, Plenary panel, School of Medicine, Religion and Medicine Meeting. February 17, 2015.“Religious Perspectives on the Mitochrondrial DNA Transfers in Humans” National Academy, Institute of Medicine, Hearing, Washington DC. March 31, 2015.“Jews and Genes,” Book Panel, Skirball Center, New York City, May 12, 2015.DARPA Robot Competition Judge, International Robot Competition, June 7, 2015.“Scripture and its Reasons,” Israeli Conference on Scriptural Reasoning, Van Leer Center, Jerusalem, June, 14, 2015.“The Child Who is Thrown from the Roof: Talmudic Reason and the Paradox of Neonatal Intensive Care,” International Academy of Bioethical Inquiry Annual Meeting, Saint Lewis University, Madrid, July 2, 2015. “Scriptural Reasoning and the Practice of Bioethics,” University of Cambridge, Annual SRU meeting, September 7, 2015“Syria: Here are the First Climate Refugees,” Plenary Speaker, Climate Change Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburg, October 3, 2015.“Jewish Ethics and The Duty of Care.” Chicago Area Jewish Chaplains Annual Meeting. Chicago, October 13, 2015“The Ethics of Vaccination,” Evanston Public Library, Evanston, October 13, 2015.“Climate Change and Religious Responses,” Parliament of World Religion, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, October, 16, 2015.“The Legacy of Yitzchak Rabin,” Public Affairs Residential College, Northwestern University, November 3, 2015.Chair, Panel, “Luther and the Jews,” Northwestern University Luther conference, November 10, 2015.“Informed Consent in Stem Cell Research.” University of Irvine School of Law and the California Stem Cell Advisory Board, University of California, Irvine, November 13, 2015.“Gene Drives and Synthentic Biology,” invited discourse participant, National Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Science, London, November 15-17, 2015.Women and Violence, Carter Center Conference on women and activism in the Academy, Respondent, November 18, 2015.Chair, Panel on Teaching Scriptural Reasoning, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting,Atlanta, November, 22, 2015. International Summit on Human Genetic Modification, National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and The Royal Society, invited discussant, December, 1-3, 2015.“Emerging Ethical Issues,” NASA Flight IACUC, Annual Meeting, December, 16, 2015.Society for the Study of Theology, Plenary Speech, “Translation : Religion and the World,” International Annual Meeting, Nottingham, England, April 2013.American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, October 2013, “Ethics of Refusal: Vaccine, Ethics and Parents”American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, “Religion and Public Life,” November, 2013Minzu University Inaugural Seminar on Interreligious Scriptural Reasoning, Plenary Talk, “Jewish Thought,” May, 2013, Beijing, China. Carter Center International Seminar on Women and Religion, “Interruptions in Scripture,” June, 2013Society for Jewish Ethics, Invited Keynote Address: “Jewish Bioethics, Interdisciplinarity and the Task of Translation,” Annual National Meeting, Chicago, January, 2013“The Ethics of Synthetic Biology, Invited Plenary Paper,” American Society for Molecular Biology, Annual National Meeting, San Francisco, December, 2012“Judaism, Science and Religion: Interruption and Repair,” Invited Keynote Paper, “Bioethics and Religion: Luso-American Conference, Lisbon, 2012. “The Want Ads: Foster Children as an Ethical Issue for the field of Bioethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual National Meeting, Washington DC, 2012.“The Ethics of Synthetic Biology,” National Science Foundation and University of California, Berkeley, National Meeting on “Raising New Questions for the Field,” Washington DC, 2012.“Benefits and Burdens,” at Annual National Meeting, Benefits Managers Association, New Orleans, 2012.Cambridge Scriptural Reasoning Seminar Annual Conference, Cambridge University, panel on translation and knowledge, July 2012, organizer and participant, July, 2012“Justice and Just Distribution,” at Midwest Meeting on Health Care Reform, Association of Benefit Managers, Chicago, 2012“Veracity,” Grand Rounds, Northwestern University Ob/Gyn Department, 2012“Religion and Science and the Ethics of Synbio,” Invited Plenary Panel, National Academies Meeting on Synthetic Biology, Washington, DC, 2012“Synthetic Biology is Real: The Ethical Issues,” Domain Dinner, Northwestern University, invited panel, 2012Dean’s Segal Lecture Speaker, McCormick School of Engineering, “Making Good: The Ethics of Design,” I was the first speaker on the ethical issues of engineering and the only Northwestern faculty member invited to be a Segal Lecturer. 2012.“Ethics and Truth-telling,” University of Rochester Annual Research Lecture, Invited Keynote, 2012RNA Society Science and Society Annual Lecture, “Making a World of Good” Annual National Meeting of the RNA Society, Ann Arbor, 2012“Ethical and Religious Views on Stem Cell Research,” International Meeting, Invited Plenary Paper, Qatar Educational Foundation, Rice University, Doho, Qatar “Synthetic Biology and the Question of Jewish Ethics,” Paper, Annual Meeting of the Society for Jewish Ethics, New Orleans, January, 2011.“Synthetic Biology and the Texts of Creation” American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting., paper presentation, October, 2010“Scriptural Reasoning: Families and Women” Annual Fall Meeting, participant. Atlanta, Emory University, October, 2010.“Contracts, Religion, and the Limits of the Marketplace in Egg Exchange,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, paper presentation, October, 2010.“Stem Cell Ethics: Emerging Issues in iPS Research—The Case of DeNova Gamete Production,” Stem Cells—What is Up for Debate- Max Planck Institute, Muenster, Germany, October, 2010“The Ethical Issues in Research Oversight,” panel participant, International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, June, 2010, and member, Ethics and Policy Committee“The Ethics of Egg Exchange,” International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 8th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Ethics and Public Policy Committee member. “The Ethical Issues in Mental Health: A Jewish Perspective,” Judaism, Science and Medicine Seminar, Arizona State University, Annual Conference and Board Meeting, October, 2010“Other Women`s Bodies: the Ethical Issues in Egg Exchanges” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting in San Diego. 2010, “How to Make a Fire:? Jewish Ethics and Emerging Technology” ?presented at the 2009 Meeting in Washington D.C. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Panel Session“Other Women’s Bodies: Eggs, Ethics and the Global Marketplace,” American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, 2007“Necessary Losses: Children and Work” American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, 2007.“What They Mean When They Say It Is Good Science: Reading Primary Texts of Science” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, DC, 2007“We Have Circled This Mountain Too Long: Next Steps Toward Stem Cell Research—a Jewish Perspective,” American Academy of Religion, November 16, 2006“Interruption: The Call for a Hospitable Bioethics,” American Society for Bioethics andHumanities Annual Conference, October 26, Denver, 2006.“Loving the Broken World: How to Speak When We Speak of Liberation,” Society for Jewish Ethics/ Christian Ethics Society for, January, Tucson, 2006.“Is The Future Fair?: A Tribute to Karen LeBacqz,” Society for Christian Ethics, 2006“Silence: Word and Not Word in Prophetic Calling,” American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA, American Academy of Religion, November, 2005.“Second Hand Children: Moral Imperatives Look Like This,” American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA, American Academy of Religion, November, 2005.“Katrina in a Duty Bound World: Breaking News in Bioethics” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington DC, 2005.“To The Other: Hospitality in Bioethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington DC, 2005.“Living Under the Fallen Sky: Biotechnology, Eschatology and Forbidden Knowledge,”American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2004.“Why be Good?: Poverty and Debt Release in Scriptural and Social Scientific Reasoning,” San Antonio, TX, November 2004.“The Care of Dying in America: The Ethics and Theology of Hair Dye, Botox, and Prozac,” American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2004.“Just Beyond Our Reach: a Plenary Response to the Work of the President’s Bioethics Commission,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004.“Breaking News in Bioethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Spring Meeting,Plenary Panel. Houston, TX, March 12, 2004.“The Cousins Club: The Yearning for the Lost Tribes and the Use of Human Genetics to Find Them” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.“Jewish Studies and Israel,” Society for Jewish Ethics/Society for Christian Ethics Annual MeetingJ anuary 2003.“Stem Cells and Public Policy,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 2002.“Gender and Genocide: Subjects, Objects, and Agency,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 2002. “Pragmatism: Broken Text, Broken World,” Academy for Jewish Studies AnnualMeeting, Los Angeles, December 2002. “The Ethics of Space Travel,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, 2002. “A New Religious American in a New America,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, 2001. “We Have Found the Book of Life: Ethics and Promise in Science Education Films 1956-2001, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, 2001. “Each One an Entire World: Jewish Views on Family Planning,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, 2001. “Talk in the Commons: Can We Have Consensus in Bioethics?” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Nashville, 2001. “Close Textual Reading of the Talmudic Text, Sanhedrin 75a,” The Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2001. “A Distinctive Jewish Ethics of Reproduction,” The Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2001. “Social Ethics and Popular Culture: The Case of Dr. Laura,” Bioethics Summer Conference, Asilomar, 2000. “Just Bioethics in an Unjust World,” the Presidential Address, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2000. “Conflicts of Interest in Bioethics Consultation,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2000. “Ethics, Religion and Popular Culture: the Case of Disneyland,” SFSU Asilomar Faculty Conference, 2000. “The History of Managed Care,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2000. “Exit, Voice and Loyalty: the Meaning of Covenant in Jewish Thought,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Nashville, 2000. “Gendered Reading/Gendered Text: Feminism and Jewish Bioethics,” American Association of Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1999. “The Ethics of the Eighth Day: a Jewish Perspective on Stem Cells,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, 1999. “Reasoning, Text and Case: Germ-line Intervention and Jewish Textual Recourse,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, 1999. “The Theory and Practice of Clinical Ethics,” and “Buyers Remorse: When an Untrustworthy Agent Speaks for a Transformed Self,” both with Susan Rubin, American Association for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1999.“Fidelity and Responsibility: The Sundowner Report – The United State Interagency Ethical Principles in Animal Research,” with Joseph Bieletski, American Association for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1999.“Root and Branch: Emerging Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research,” American Association for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1999.“Judaism and Healing,” at Annual Conference, Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, Minnesota, October 1999.“A Jewish Perspective on Cancer Genetics,” National Conference on Cancer Genetics, Memphis, St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Research Center, May 1999.“Perfect Strangers: Cloning and Jewish Bioethics,” McElmury Lectureship, Andrews University, Michigan, April 9, 1999.“Spiritual Dimensions of Pain” and “Ethics and the New Medical Dilemma,” as Scholar-in-Residence, University of North Carolina, February 8-11, 1999.“Jews and Blacks and Jazz,” SFSU Annual University Retreat, Asilomar, January 1999.“When You Wish Upon a Star, It Makes No Difference Who You Are: Disneyland and the Illness Pilgrimage,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Orlando, November 1998.“Doubled in the Darkest Mirror: The Ritual and the Practices of the Chevra Kadisha,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Orlando, November 1998.“Expanding the Borders of Bioethics Concern – Is the Issue of War an Issue for Bioethicists?” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities First Annual Meeting, Houston, November 1998.“Articles of Faith,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities First Annual Meeting, Houston, November 1998.“Notes From a Narrow Ridge, Religion and Bioethics,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Orlando, November 1998.“It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who you Know: Shifting from Epistemological Concerns to Ontological Ones in our Consideration about Genetic Interventions and the Practice of Clinical Medicine,” Stanford Conference on Genetics and Ethics, October 1998.“Duty Bound: Moral Translations and the Process of Bioethics Consultation,” and “Here is the Perfect Baby Girl: Ethics and New Technology,” both plenary papers at the First International Conference of Jewish Bioethics, Philadelphia, May 1998.“Jewish Views on Justice in Managed Care,” Plenary Speaker at the Duquesne University Annual Bioethics Conference, May 1998.“The Necessity of the Stranger,” keynote speech, and “Women and the Jewish Experience: Dreams, Politics, and Jewish Culture,” Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel, West Coast Regional Hadassah, Hillel and San Francisco State University, April 1998.“Risking All: The Obligation to the Stranger: What is the Meaning of Service to the Community?” Truth or Dare Conference on Women and Jewish Life, San Francisco State University, April 1998.Philosophers and Physician Assisted Suicide,” Plenary Speaker at the 25th Anniversary of the University of North Carolina Bioethics Program and Spring Meeting of the Society for Health and Human Values, 1998.“Faith and Reasoning,” American Association of Bioethics, Philadelphia, PA 1995.“The Eye of the Beholder: The Outcomes Movement, Health Care Limits, and theManagement of Belief,” with Susan Rubin, The Society for Health and Human Values Annual Meeting, October 1995.“Funding for Ethics Education and Research,” with Susan Rubin, The Society forHealth and Human Values Annual Meeting, October 1995."Thirty Years of Schooling and They Put You on the Day Shift: The Bioethicist and the Marketplace," with Susan Rubin, The Society for Bioethics Consultation Annual Meeting, October 1995."Girl Talk: Bioethics Consultation and the Gendered Discourse," with Susan Rubin, The Society for Bioethics Consultation Annual Meeting, October 1995."On Mapping the Normal Human Self: Jews, Genes, and the Mark of Difference," The American Jewish Studies Association Annual Meeting, December 1994."On Seeing a Case: Religious Ethics and the Question of Futility," Faculty Panel and Workshops, The Society for Bioethics Consultation, Fall, 1994."Community and Conscience: A Jewish View of Health Care Reform," The Society for Health and Human Values Annual Conference, Fall, 1994."Truth and the Embodied Listener," with Susan Rubin, The Society for Bioethics Consultation Annual Meeting, Fall, 1994."The Ethics of the Common Good: Health Care Reform, Public Policy, and the ReligiousImperative," American Academy of Religion, Fall, 1994."The Ethics of the Ordinary World: Mothering, Daughtering, Religious Scholarship, andSpiritual Journey," American Academy of Religion, Fall, 1994."Just Choices: the Genome Project and the Embodied Gaze," The International Bioethics Institute Annual Conference: "Genes and Justice,” April 1994."AIDS and the Common Good: Plague in the Jewish Tradition," with Mary Pinkerson, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 1993."Mapping the Normal Human Self: Reflections on Otherness, Eugenics, Jews, and the Genome Project," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 1993."Family Matters: Hearing Every Voice in the Consultation Process," with Susan Rubin, Society for Bioethics Consultation Annual Meeting, September 1993."Politics and Prophecy: Ethics and Partisanship," with Joel Frader, The Society for Bioethics Consultation Annual Meeting, September 1993."Is Consent Possible?" Faculty at the LDS/University of Utah Division of Bioethics Fourth Annual InterMountain Health Care Conference: “The Physician Provider Relationship,” June 1993."Claiming Our Bodies: the Epistemology of Lived Experience," Keynote Speech, The Jewish Women's Body: a Conference on Women and Health, San Francisco, May 1993."Jewish Tradition and Medical Ethics: Setting Limits," American Academy of Religion National Conference, Health and Religion Section, November 1992."Making Moral Community, Finding Moral Location: Using the Community as Text in the Story," Faculty, The Society for Bioethics Consultation, 6th Annual Meeting: “The Future of Bioethics Consultation.” Also co-chaired and facilitated the Society's first meeting of women who are ethics consultants, both with Susan Rubin, September 1992."Ethical Issues in the Oregon Health Care Process," Fourth International Conference of Medical Ethics, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1991."Futility and Community," Faculty, LDS Hospital/University of Utah Bioethics Division,InterMountain Third Annual Conference on Ethics, March 1991."Nursing Ethics and The Covert Dynamic: Race, Gender, and Class," Faculty, The Society for Bioethics Consultation, Fourth Annual Meeting, September 1990.SELECTED INVITED SPEECHES, ENDOWED LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS2016“Methods and Commitments in Bioethics,” Center for Practical Reasoning, St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri, January 26, 2016. “Risky Hospitality” Plenary Speech, American Academy of Religion, Upper Midwestern Region, April 1, 2016. “As Long as the Sky is Over the Earth: Climate Change and Religious Response,” Notre Dame, Center for Global Affairs, April 4, 2016.“The Ethics of Synthentic Biology,” Monsanto Annual Meeting, April 13, 2016“The Craft of Teaching Religious Ethics: Reading Scripture Together,” Craft of Teaching Series, University of Chicago, May, 2016 “Jewish Ethics and The Question of Natural Law,” Faraday Institute Lecture Series, Cambridge, July 5, 2016 “Religion and Violence” Annual Cambridge Conference on Scriptural Reasoning, June 2016 “Gene Drives, Religion, and Ethics” Cambridge, July 18, 2016 “Ethical Issues in Synthentic Biology: Histories and Practices” Council on Competitiveness, July, 2016.“Ethical Issues in an Emerging Epidemic: Opioid Use and the American Working Class,” Medill Journalism Conference, Washington DC, September 15, 2016. “Emerging Ethical Issues,” NASA Flight IACUC, Annual Meeting, December, 16, 2016. “Climate Change as an Ethical Issue” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Meeting, Washington, DC, October 5th.“The Ethics of the Coming Storm: Climate Change and Prophetic Theology” Annual Boisi Lecture, Prophetic Voices Series, Boston College, Boston October 25, 2016.“Emerging Technology and Ethical Imperatives” Loyola School of Law Annual Law and Public Health Meeting, Chicago, October 28, 2016.“The History of Bioethics and Regulation of Recombinant Genetics,” Northwestern University School of Law, Annual Conference on Law and Technology, Chicago, October 28, 2016.“Oncofertility: Ethical Issues” Oncofertility Consortium Annual National Meeting, Chicago, November 1, 2016“Bioethics and Genetic Manipulation: Designing Nature,” National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Homeland Security Meeting on Synthetic Biology, Washington DC, November 18, 2016.2011 “The Ethical Challenges in Genetics: Bioethics and the Human Future,” University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium Lecture Series, 2011 “The Tragedy of Translation: Stem Cells and Ethics” Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, November, 2011“What We Owe to the Other: Jewish Ethics and the Question of Debt in Medicine” Boniuk-Tanzman Lectureship, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October, 2011.“Justice and Values in Higher Education” , panelist, Spencer Foundation National Conference, October, 2011.“Making Good: the Ethics of Synthetic Biology”, De Vos Invited Lectureship, Michigan, September, 2011. “Oncofertility and the Duty of Repair” Keynote Speech, National Oncofertility Consortium Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September, 2011. “Ethics and Stem Cells: Ten Years of Reflection,” California State University, Riverside, April, 2011.“Justice and the Leper`s Prayer: Befalleness, Reciprocity, and Jewish Health Care Ethics” , The Breslau Lecture, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 2011. “The Ethics of Oncofertility: Religion and Public Debates” Annual Ethics and Catholic Healing Meeting for the Archdiocese of Chicago, March, 2011Keynote on Ethics and Religion, for the Zygon Spring Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 2011. “The Body is Politic” The Johnston Lecture, and “Midrash and Bioethics,” Colgate University, March, 2011 “Slowly Reading Text: Textual Reasoning,” McCormick Teaching Roundtable, McCormick Professorship Lecture, January, 2011. “Ethics and Religion in Oncofertility,” Organized and spoke at the Chicago Ecumenical Leadership Meeting, Northwestern University, January, 20112010Invited Judge – Grawemeyer Award in Religion – Finalists Selection “Stem Cell Ethics: Emerging Issues in iPS Research—The Case of DeNova Gamete Production,” Stem Cells—What is Up for Debate- Max Planck Institute, Muenster, Germany, October, 2010“Abortion; Jewish Perspectives in the Latin American Context,” Ford Foundation grant recipient seminar, Princeton University, October, 2010,“Conscious and Duty in the Abortion Debate,” Invited Panel, Princeton University, Open Hearts, Fair Words, conference on Abortion, October, 2010. “The Ethical Issues in Mental Health: A Jewish Perspective,” Judaism, Science and Medicine Seminar, Arizona State University, Annual Conference Scholar-in Residence, Monash University and Hadassah Medical Organization, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia (“Ethical Issues in AIDS Research,” “Circumcision, Jewish Ethics, and the AIDs Epidemic,” “ Ethical Issues and Circumcision,” Public Forum and Public Radio Panel) August, 2010. “Ethical Issues in Pediatric Neurobiology: What Can Be Known?,” Children`s Neurobiology Foundation Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. July, 2010. “One Book, One Northwestern: Paul Farmer, Religion, and Justice,” Speaker for Northwestern`s Series, 2010, Feinbergy School of Medicine. December, 2010.Ethical Issues in Cancer Nursing: Emerging Issues,” Northwestern University Cancer Center Annual Conference, December, 2010.“Jewish Christian Relations in the 21st Century.” Panel participant, Catholic Theological Seminary, NCCJ, November, 2010. “Jewish Orthodoxy`s Complexities” Annual Seminar for National Leadership of Prison chaplains,” American Academy of Religion, Public Outreach Division, October, 2010.“Bioethics: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Research,” for “Women of Wisdom Seminar,” Willmette, Illinois, October 2010“Nanotechnology and Ethical Issues” Town Hall meeting organized, Northwestern University, October, 2010 “Stem Cell Ethics: Emerging Issues in iPS Research—The Case of DeNova Gamete Production,” Stem Cells—What is Up for Debate- Max Planck Institute, Muenster, Germany, October, 2010Scholar-in Residence, Monash University and Hadassah Medical Organization, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia (“Ethical Issues in AIDS Research,” “ Circumcision, Jewish Ethics, and the AIDs Epidemic,” “ Ethical Issues and Circumcision,” (Public Forum and Public Radio Panel) August, 2010. “Ethical Issues in Pediatric Neurobiology: What Can Be Known?,” Children`s Neurobiology Foundation Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. July, 2010.“The Ethical Issues in Research Oversight,” panel participant, International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, June, 2010, and member, Ethics and Policy Committee.Cambridge Scriptural Reasoning Seminar Annual Conference, Cambridge University, panel on family and text, June 2010, organizer and participant.“Returning to the Texts,” Scholar in Residence, Evanston Community Jewish Community Conference, May, 2010.“Justice in an Unjust World,” Evanston Mental and Community Health City Advisory Board presentation, May 2010“Sustainability is Not Enough,” Kellogg Seminar in Global Health, April, 2010.“Climate Change and Human Health,” Northwestern University, Public Forum, February, 2010. “What Can be Known about Medicine and Healing?” for Northwestern Alumni, Winter, 2010. And “What Can be Known about Hope?”, for Northwestern Alumni, Winter, 2010.“Must We Always Tell the Truth?,” Keynote for Northwestern University Executive Staff Retreat, February, 2010“Ethics of Equipose” Asia DSMB: AIDS –Nanning, China. Review of studies PREDICT-CIPRA and HPTN 058GlobeMed Global Health Summit Northwestern University: Plenary Panel I, “The Idea: Debating Health as a Human Right” 2009.Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics with Rabbi Yuval Sherlow, Dr. Deena Zimmerman, Elliot Dorff, and Aaron Mackler, 2009Scriptural Reasoning Conference with International Colleagues at Cambridge University, Summer Seminar 2009“The Ethics of Egg Exchange,” International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 8th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Ethics and Public Policy Committee member.Arizona State University – Judaism, Science and Medicine Meeting. Panelist.Path to Improved Risk Stratification (PIRS) September Meeting, 2009“A Jewish View on Stem Cells” for In Good Faith, a city-wide Jewish/Catholic/Protestant/Muslim leadership dinner, Keynote address.Genetics, Jewish Diseases and Personalized Medicine Conference for the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City with John Lantos. Presented: “Making a Fire.”CaliforniaAustralia/Israel Stem Cell Axis with Hadassah Australia. “Bioethics Briefing – Cellular Transactions: The Commercialization of the Human Body.” National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives Synthetic Biology Conference with Joshua Leonard and Mike Jewett. “Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature’s Inspiration. Keynote speaker including web presentation on ethical issues.Limmud Chicago 2010. Two Sessions: “Making a Place: Jews, Ethics and Climate Change,” and, “Jewish Ethics and Healthcare Reform.”2009 “Social Justice in Science” at the Karolinska Institute Hosted by the Centre for Healthcare Ethics in Sweden’s Nobel Forum Symposia, December, 2009“Making a Fire: Rabbinic Ethics and Research Genetics” Genetics, Jewish Diseases and Personalized Medicine Conference for the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City with John Lantos. “Translational Research and Science Self-Governance: The ISSCR International Guidelines Report .” The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. 3 MH&B Seminars: The Ethics of Translational Stem Cell Research: Medical Tourism, Internet Promises, and the Role of Science Self Governance; Come Hungry, Leave Happy: Science and Religion in the Obesity Epidemic; Why Does the National Academy of Science Care About Chimeric Mice?: The Religion vs. Science Debates.“Neuroethics: Is Seeing Believing?” .MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago– Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Series: “The Ethics of Epidemics – 1918 and 2009” , Residential College Lecture Series, Northwestern, “What Does It Mean to be Free?” Highland Park Library Series, 2009 “Making a Place: Jewish Thought and Environmental Crisis” Nature as a Force Ethics and Sustainability Conference at Boston College, Spring, 2009 Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development in Doha, Qatar. “The Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: A Perspective from Jewish and Christian Traditions.” NU Club of Greater Sarasota, Keynote Speaker. “Be Good; Tell the Truth: The Ethics of Veracity”GlobeMed Global Health Summit: Plenary Panel I, “The Idea: Debating Health as a Human Right”Research Roundtable – Environmental, Health and Safety Risks of Emerging Technologies with David Dana. Paper Presented “Person, Polis, Risk, Need and Uncertainty: Justice and Consent in Emerging Technology”American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities Spring Meeting – Provocations: A Tasting of Ideas, Wine and Vosges Chocolate. Presented: “Medical Humanities Without Justice Isn’t Worth Translating.”Minisymposium on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Presented: “The Ethics of Translational Stem Cell Research: Medical Tourism, Internet Promises, and the Role of Science Self Governance”Medicine and Religion Lunch Symposium at University of Chicago Keynote Speaker: “Judgment, Terror and Mercy: Religious Responses to Epidemics”Year of Science – The Goodman Theatre presents A Number by Caryl Churchill. Panelist to discuss the scientific principles of cloning in the play.International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 7th Annual Meeting in Barcelona. Ethics and Public Policy Committee and Task Force on Clinical Translation Subcommittee Chair.Conference Organizer: Oncofertility/Ethics: Hosted a three day seminar on the ethical and legal issues in oncofertility, with my newly created National Advisory Board for the new grant on ELSI issues in oncofertility, July 2009.ScienceChicago – Bridging the Gap: Medical Humanities, Bioethics and Society. PanelistOncofertility Consortium Annual Meeting – Presented: “Waiting to be Born: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Generation from Frozen and Stored Pre-pubertal Ovarian TissueCouncil of 100 (C100) Presentation on Basic BioethicsUniversity of California at San Diego (UCSD) Ethics Center 5 Year Anniversary Keynote Lecture: “What Makes Research Fair?: Just Science in an Unjust World”NIH CTSA Clinical Research Ethics: Key Function Committee (CRE-KFC) Face to Face meeting prior to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. “Justice in Translation: What is the Duty of the Researcher to the Community?”American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Panel Session: New Directions in Jewish Bioethics with graduate students Alyssa Henning and Michal Raucher. Member of the Neuroethics Affinity Group.CHB ESCRO Research Collaboration at Harvard University Clinical and Clinical Translational Research Incubator Seminar (CTRIS) Classes without Quizzes event for the Office of Planned Giving – Presented: Ethical Wills “A Jewish View on Stem Cells” for In Good Faith, a city-wide Jewish/Catholic/Protestant/Muslim leadership dinner. Keynote address.Genetics, Jewish Diseases and Personalized Medicine Conference for the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City with John Lantos. Presented: “Making a Fire.”Society for Scriptural Reasoning Annual Meeting to coincide with AAR in Montreal. Participant in interdisciplinary seminar. Topic: Family RelationsCo-chaired colloquium with Christine Helmer, "Moral Philosophy and Religious Studies” CaliforniaAustralia/Israel Stem Cell Axis with Hadassah Australia. “Bioethics Briefing – Cellular Transactions: The Commercialisation of the Human Body.”National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives Synthetic Biology Conference with Joshua Leonard and Mike Jewett. “Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature’s Inspiration. Keynote speaker including web presentation on ethical issues.Limmud Chicago 2010. Two Sessions: “Making a Place: Jews, Ethics and Climate Change,” and, “Jewish Ethics and Healthcare Reform.”Coordinated both the Senior Oncofertility Saturday Academy and the Junior Oncofertility Saturday Academy (SOSA/JOSA). Presented the video: “The Courage of One’s Convictions” and discussed The Jehovah’s Witness Tradition with JOSA.“Individuals, culture and biology: what does the future hold? For Genetics, Jewish Diseases and Personalized Medicine Conference for the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, MO November, 2009”“What Makes Research Fair? Just Science in an Unjust World” presented at 5 Year Anniversary for The Center for Ethics in Science and Technology in San Diego, CA, Oct. 7, 2009.Council of One Hundred, Northwestern University Alumni Association Fall Meeting Oct. 2009“Cell Replacement Therapy” at The National Council of Health and Education Authorities Annual Meeting, Oct. 2009Panelist: Society for Jewish Ethics, “Text Study” Annual National Meeting, January 10th, 2009Lectures: MH&B Lunchtime Series: Ethics of Translational Stem Cell Research; Come hungry, Leave happy: Science and Religion in the Obesity Epidemic; and Why Does the National Academy of Science Care About Chimeric Mice?: The Religion vs. Science Debates. January 29th, February 5th, and February 12th, 2009.Guest Speaker: University of Chicago – Harris School of Public Policy Studies, January 29th, 2009. “Review of ISSCR Guidelines for Translational Research.”Guest Speaker: University of Chicago – MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, February 4th, 2009. “Neuroethics”2008Lecture, Osher Life Long Learners, March 24, 2008 and April 7, 2008. Northwestern University.Panelist: “Health and Human Rights Resolving Bioethical Dilemmas,” Conference on Human Rights, Northwestern University, April 12, 2008.Lecture: “Diabetes, Policy, and Ethics,” Diabetes: Solutions for the 21st Century: Research, Economics, Policy and Ethics, Chicago Kent College of Law, April 18, 2008.Lecture: “Work in Progress: Biotechnology, Religion, and the Nature of Humans,” Keynote Speaker, Series on “Human Nature” Scripps College, Claremont, CA, April 22, 2008.Keynote: HHMI Janelia Farm and NASA/NSF seminar on “The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: When is Weird Life Dangerous?” and subsequent white paper contributor. Lecture: Basic Research and the Nature of Uncertainty, National Seminar, Cardiac Implant Devices Group, September 16th, 2008. Panelist: World Stem Cell Summit, September 23rd, 2008, “Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Issues”Panelist: McCormick Theater Event “Copenhagen,” September 25th, 2008.Guest Speaker: International Conference on Human Beings: Political, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, Gorizia, Italy, October 2nd-5th, 2008. “What’s? A Heaven For? Religion and Science in Emerging Research”Panelist: ASBH Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, October 23rd-26th, 2008. “Ethics Consultation: Comparing Models and Approaches” and “Cryopreserving Hope: The Ethics of Fertility Preservation for Cancer Patients.”Guest Speaker: AAR Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 31st-November 4th, 2008. Chair for Women and Religion Section and Childhood Studies and Religion. Presided over: “Are Some Children Too Expensive to Treat? Ethics and Neonatal Intensive Care”Guest Speaker and Honoree: The Chicago Jewish Federation Annual Event: “The Secrets of Three Remarkable Jewish Women,” December 2nd, 2008 Lecture: “The Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cells” National Science Foundation The Osher Lectures Lecture: “Jewish Genetics and Jewish Peoplehood,” American Enterprise InstitutePanelist: “The ethics of personalized medicine: what challenges does this new technologypresent?” Northwestern University, Kellogg Biotechnology and Healthcare Conference, January 19, 2008.Lecture: “Hide and Seek: The ethics of Curiosity and Security in Synthetic Biology,” Advances in Synthetic Biology” BIO meeting, New York City, NY, February 11, 2008.Keynote Address: “Hide and Seek: The ethics of Curiosity and Security in Synthetic Biology,” Advances in Synthetic Biology,” Cambridge, England, March 6, 2008.Keynote Address: “Ethical Issues Raised in Animal Research,” Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research: IACUC Animal Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 27, 2008. Lecture, Osher Life Long Learners, March 24, 2008 and April 7, 2008. Northwestern University. Panelist: “Health and Human Rights Resolving Bioethical Dilemmas,” Conference on Human Rights, Northwestern University, April 12, 2008.Lecture: “Diabetes, Policy, and Ethics,” Diabetes: Solutions for the 21st Century: Research,Economics, Policy and Ethics, Chicago Kent College of Law, April 18, 2008.Lecture: “Work in Progress: Biotechnology, Religion, and the Nature of Humans,” ScrippsCollege, Claremont, CA, April 22, 2008.2007“CSRS Distinguished Speakers Series, Acceptable Genes? Religion, Culture, and the Genetically Modified Foods Debate”, University of Victoria, February 5, 2007.National Academy of Science, March 5, 2007“Seeing the Blackbird.” Henrich Pesch Haus, Ludwighafen, Germany, March 11, 2007.Bochner Lecture, Rice University, “Work in Progress: Science, Religion, and the HumanFuture.” March 19, 2007. “Work in Progress: Science, Religion, and the Human Future.” Harvard University, March 22, 2007.“Next Door: The Coming Ethical Questions in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.”University of California at San Diego; Salk Institute, April 6, 2007.“Secrets, Freedom, and Friendship: The Ethics of Biosecurity in a World of Distributed Knowledge.” University of California at Berkeley, April 11, 2007.Panel Member, NIH STEPNeuroethics Program, April 24, 2007.Panel Moderator, “Ethics of Stem Cell Research,” New York Second Circuit JudicialConference, Sagamore Hotel, New York, June 8, 2007.Panel Session, “Hide and Seek: The Ethics of Curiosity and Security in Synthetic Biology”, Synthetic Biology 3.0 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, June 27, 2007.Center for American Progress Summit on Bioethics, Washington, D.C., July 13, 2007.Plenary Speech, “Conversations in the Future Tense: The Ethical Issue in OvarianMaturation”, XVIth Annual Ovarian Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, July 20, 2007.Plenary Speech, “Alexandria Program Plan: Creating a Library for Human Tissue Research and Therapeutic Use,” Mapping the Language of Research-Biobanks and Health Registries: From Traditional Biobanking to Research Biobanking,” Paris, France, September 7, 2007.Panelist, “Expert’s Luncheon,” Stem Cell Summit, Boston, MA, October 2, 2007.Lecture, “‘Or What's A Heaven For?’: Bioscience and The Alteration of Human Limits,” Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions, Rethinking the Human Lecture Series, November 8, 2007.Speech, “Waiting to be Born: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Generation from Frozen and Stored Pre-pubertal Ovarian Tissue,” Northwestern University, Oncofertility ConsortiumConference, December 10, 2007.2006“Jewish Studies in a Time of Turmoil,” General Assembly National Annual Meeting, JewishFederations, Los Angeles, November 12, 2006.“Stem Cell Research: the Ethics of the Way Forward,” Plenary Panel, New York State Stem Cell Foundation, New York, October, 23, 2006, “Regretfulness, Forgetfulness, and Agency: The Ethics of Error in Medicine and Science”, Plenary Speech, “Medicine on Trial”, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, October, 22, 2006“Religion, Science and Polity” Plenary Panel, “Why be Afraid?: Religion and Society” Colorado College, October 19, 2006“Philosophy, Polity and Faith in Stem Cell Research,” University of Oslo, September 27, 2006, University of Oslo, Norway.“Truth and Consequences in Basic Research,” Keynote Speaker, Fred Hutchinson Center, Seattle, Annual Retreat, September. 19, 2006“Must We Act for the Right and the Good?” Academic Coalition on Jewish Bioethics Annual Meeting, September, 11, 2006, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, “Humanity and Science” Pitts Memorial Lecture, Medical University of South Carolina, September, 8, 2006, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.“Basic Research as a Moral Task” A Scholar-in-Residency at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Center for Genetic Research (CCG-UNAM), August 21-24, 2006, Cuernavaca, Mexico.“The Ethical Issues in Basic Research,” Beijing University, August 6, 2006“Religion and Bioethics,” Panel at the International Association of Bioethics, August, 3, 2006, Beijing.“Politics, Policy and Legacy in American Bioethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Meeting, July 14, 2006, Albany, New York“The Ethics of Nanotechnology,” National Science Foundation Nanotech Ethics Training, July, 11, 2006, Minneapolis, MN.“Ethics of Basic Research: the Case of Stem Cells,” Plenary Speech, The Endocrine SocietyAnnual Meeting, June, 26, 2006, Boston“Religion and Science: A Jewish Perspective,” Templeton Foundation Journalist Scholar, June, 2006“The Ethics of Synthetic Biology” University of California, Berkeley, May 22, 2006“What Does it Mean to Be Human?” Johns Hopkins University May 15, 2006“The Self and The Other in Basic Research,” American Association of Immunology Annual Meeting, Boston, May 5, 2006“A Feminism of Abundance,” Gender, Religion and Public Life Lecture Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY, April 26, 2006 “Jewish Ethics and Modernity, Toronto Federation Conference on Medicine, April 26, 2006“May We Make the World? Bioethics,” Stem Cells and the New Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Scholar in Residence, Santa Cruz, CA, April 17, 2006“At the Corners of the Field: Toward a Moral Economy in Medical Research,” Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 8, 2006“Ethical and Sociopolitical Issues Related to Embryonic Stem Cells,” Future of Neuroscience Conference: Stem Cells and Neurological Disease, American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, CA, April 7, 2006“Politics of the Human Condition/Future of the Human Condition”, Nano in Society’s Context, NABIS Conference, Chicago, IL, March 29, 2006“The Borderlands at Nightfall: New Issues in Moral Philosophy and Faith at End of Life”, 16th Annual Intermountain Medical Ethics Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, March 28, 2006“Reweaving the Tapestry of Life - How far can we go to change the makeup of creations?” Sources and Resources: How Jewish Ethics and Values can and Should Shape our Actions and Ideas, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY, March 21, 2006Panelist, Biotechnology and Liberty, Liberty Fund Colloquium, Charleston, SC, March 16, 2006“Jewish Perspectives on the Imperative to Research,” Ethics Panel: Religious Voices on Embryo Research, Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, March 14, 2006Panelist, Freedom, Responsibility, and Lying, Liberty Fund Colloquium, St. Louis, MO, March 9, 2006“The Want Ads: Second Hand Children, the Ethics of Foster Care in an Age of Desire,” The Child in Religion and Ethics, Valparaiso University, Chicago, IL, March 5, 2006“Bioethics: Asking Questions from a Jewish Perspective”, Jewish Women’s Responses to Modernity, Jewish Women’s Network, Berlin, Germany, February 19, 2006“The Self Turned Inside Out: From Autonomy to Hospitality in Bioethics,” Levinas and Medical Ethics”, Boston University, Boston, MA, February 13, 2006“Katrina and Justice,” Nation in Conflict, The Women’s Center, Northwestern University,Chicago, IL, February 9, 2006“Health Care, the Budget and Morality: A Discussion of National Priorities,” Center for American Progress, Washington, DC, January 25, 2006“Science and Religion on Human Well-Being: Conflict and Correlation,” Metanexus Institute, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, January 23, 2006“Grand Challenges, Great Opportunities,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO, February 17,2006“Introduction to Jewish Ethics,” Jewish United Fund, Evanston, IL, January 19, 2006“Telling the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth: Ethics in Research,” Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL January 11, 2006“Loving the Broken World,” The Society for Jewish and Christians Ethics, Phoenix, AZ, January 7, 20062005“Abraham’s Children Watch for a Cloud of Fire: Stem Cells, Genetics, and the Future of Medicine,” Religion and Bioethics, Scholar in Residence, University of Oslo, Norway, December 12, 2005“Twin Problems that only look the same: The case of cloning and the case of somatic cell nuclear transfer,” Religion and Bioethics, Scholar in Residence, University of Oslo, Norway, December 12,2005The Pluripotency of Faith: Stem cell through different faith perspectives – why Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus agree,” Religion and Bioethics, Scholar in Residence, University of Oslo, Norway, December 14, 2005“Under the Fallen Sky: The Ethics of the Future of Medicine”, Religion and Bioethics, Scholar in Residence, University of Oslo, Norway, December 15, 2005“May We Make the World?” Healing with Stem Cells and Genetic Medicine, Congregation Sukkat Shalom, Wilmette, IL, December 4, 2005“The Want Ads: Second-hand Children, the Ethics of Adoption and the Age of Desire,”American Association of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, PA, November, 20, 2005“Embryonic Stem Cell Research Exploring the Controversy,” Stem Cell Science in Israel: From Bio to Biotech, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, November 16,2005 “Stem Cell Research: The Medical, Ethical, and Jewish Perspective,” Conversation and Connection: Jewish Women Together, Women’s Board of the Women’s Division of the Jewish United Fund, Buffalo Grove, IL, November 9, 2005“Values in Conflict: Embryos, Ethics, and The Public,” Stem Cell Research, The Genetics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC, November 8, 2005 “Freedom and Moral Responsibility at the End of Life,” Clinical Ethics Consultation: Benefits and Pitfalls, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, November 2, 2005“Mistaken-ness and the Nature of the ‘Post: The Ethics and the Inevitability of Error in Theoretical Work,” Postcolonial Theory and the Middle East, SPME Conference, Washington, DC, October 30, 2005“Ethics”, “Stem Cells: The Secret of Life,” World Presidents Organization, Chicago Chapter, Chicago, IL, October 20, 2005“The Self-Turned Inside Out: The Suffering Other as the Ground of Justice,” and “Talking the Talk: A Workshop in How to Give Speeches Both Rigorous and True,” American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, DC, October 23, 2005“Making the Future Fair: Justice and Ethics of Human Stem Cell Research,” Summit Symposia for Stem Cells Ethics, Seoul, Korea, October 19, 2005“Abortion and the Right to Choose,” Fourth Street Forum, Milwaukee, WI, October 14, 2005“May We Make the World?” Today’s Discoveries-Tomorrow Cures: How Close Are We, Life Long Learners Seminar, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, October 12, 2005“Is the Future Fair: Ethics: Justice and Markets in Stem Cell Research,” Women in Public Finance Conference, Chicago, IL, October 7, 2005“Scholarship at the Intersection of Religion & Sexuality Issues,” Ford Foundation Colloquium on Religion and Sexuality, Chicago, IL, October 6, 2005“The New Federalism,” Bioethics and Governments: Comparing French and American Responses to New Human Technologies,” France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford University, CA, September 23, 2005“There is the World; There is a Map of the World: The Ethics of Basic Research,” Fourth Yokohana Civilization International Conference: Science and Religion in the Age of Crisis, Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 2005“When You Plow the Field, Take Your Law with You,” Jewish Bioethics and the Dilemmas of Medicine from Schiavo to Stem Cell Research, Guest Speaker, Congregation Solel, Highland Park, IL, September 9, 2005“Justice is the One Thing You Must Always Find: Access to Health Care in an Unfinished World,” St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, September 9, 2005“Ethics for a Mutable World” National Academies Keck Future Initiatives, Synthetic Biology Conference, University of California, Mission Bay Campus, San Francisco, CA, August 19, 2005“Making the Perfect Baby: The Promise and Peril of Designer Babies,” ABA Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, Chicago, IL, August 6, 2005“Open Conversation on the Future of Religion & Ethics,” WGBH Conference, Cambridge,Massachusetts, June 25, 2005“Bioethics and the Law – What Advocates Must Know,” Stem Cell Policy and AdvocacySummit, Houston, Texas, June 10-12, 2005.“Bioethics and Genetics,” Keynote Address at Harvard University Genetics Department Retreat, Newport, Rhode Island, May 26, 2005.“Breaking News in Bioethics: Bright Lines Over Gray Matters, New Proposals for Stem Cell Research,” AMA Institute of Ethics Seminar, Chicago, IL, May 24, 2005.“Forms and Venues for Hospice Care,” at the Dignity of Life at the End of Life Symposium,Columbia University, New York, New York, May 22, 2005.“Stem Cells and Bioethics: Faith Politics and Science Policy,” 1st Annual California State University at Channel Islands Biology Symposium, Camarillo, CA, May 6, 2005.“Bright Lines Across Gray Matters: Would Brain Death Work as a Paradigm for Brain Lifein Embryo Research.” University of Chicago Genetics, Pharmacogenetics, & Ethics Faculty Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 4, 2005. “Bioethics and Religious Traditions: Judaism.” University of Chicago, May 4, 2005.“Ethics of Stem Cell Research.” Student Society for Stem Cell Research, Northwestern Chapter, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 3, 2005.“Is the Future Fair?:Biotechnology and the Question of Social Justice.” Keynote Address, 4th Annual International Bioethics Forum, Madison, WI, April 21, 2005.“May We Make the World?: Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology.” Synthetic Biology SeminarSeries, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 19, 2005.“Ethics in Neurosurgery.” The Immunotherapy Task Force of the American Association of Neurologic Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, April 17, 2005.“Living under the Fallen Sky: Bioethics and Basic Research.” Keynote Address, European Science Foundation, Zonheuvel, Netherlands, April 12, 2005.“Priorities in Healthcare” Respondent, Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 3, 2005.“Ethics and Stem Cell Research,” Jewish United Fund, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, March 29, 2005.“Seeing is Believing: Ethical Issues in the Clinical Use of Neuro-imaging,” at the Bio-X Watching Life: Imaging from Molecules to Humans Symposium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 25, 2005.“Regulatory and Ethical Issues on the Use of Stem Cells: An International Perspective,” Days of Molecular Medicine Conference, University of California, San Diego, March 18, 2005.“The Ethics of Aging: Disposability, Service, and Justice,” Aging, Genetic Testing and theFuture Conference, Boston College, March 14, 2005.“What the Market will Bear: The Ethics of Egg Trading,” Precious Commodities: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts Symposium, De Paul Law Review, Chicago, Illinois,March 4, 2005.“Freedom, Fairness and Responsibility,” Springfield Coalition for Regenerative MedicineTeach-In,” Springfield, Illinois, March 2, 2005.“Stem Cells in America and in Israel,” Hillel Student Leadership Forum, University of Chicago,February 28, 2005.“Faith, Science and the Future,” University of Southern California, February 1, 2005. “Health Care, the Budget and Morality: A Discussion of National Priorities,” The Center for American Progress, Washington, DC, January 25, 2005.“Politics, Faith and the Public Imagination in Science,” University of California, San Francisco, CA, January 10, 2005.2004“Living Under the Fallen Sky: Biotechnology, Eschatology, and Forbidden Knowledge,” American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 22, 2004.“The Public, Faith, and the Press: Why did Stem Cells Make It to the Convention Floor?”Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center,San Antonio, TX, November 11, 2004.“Living Under the Fallen Sky: Bioethics and Stem Cell Research,” The Inaugural Annual Myron Zinn Memorial Maimonides Lecture, San Antonio, TX, November 10, 2004.“Whither Science after the Presidential Election?” American Heart Association’s Council onArteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Women’s Leadership CommitteeLuncheon, New Orleans, LA, November 8, 2004.“The Theory and Practice of Classical Ethics: Charting the Course for Effective Ethics,” Workshop at the American Society for Bioethics and HumanitiesConference, Philadelphia, PA, October 28-31, 2004.“Comment on Beyond Therapy, Plenary Speaker at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 28, 2004.“Playing God or Playing Politics? How Stem Cells Came to the Convention Floor,” Northwestern University, October 22, 2004.“Is the Future Fair? Basic Research and the Question of Social Justice” at Duke University Medical School, Raleigh, NC, October 20, 2004.“Living Under the Fallen Sky: Bioethics and Stem Cell Research,” Boyarsky Lecture at Duke University, Raleigh, NC, October 19, 2004.Scholar in Residence, Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, October 14,2004.“Ethics of Stem Cell Research” at the Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchWorkshop, National Academies, Washington, DC, October 13, 2004.“On Ethics and Morals” at the Willie Brown Institute Stem Cell Symposium, San Francisco, CA, October 12, 2004.“Ethics,” Symposium on Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads, Sponsored by The Science Network, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA,October 2, 2004.“Religion, Science, and Public Policy: How Should We Frame Public Policy Issues such as Abortion, Stem Cell Research, Creation Theory and Same Sex Marriage?” at Religion, Politics and Public Policy Colloquium, AnnenbergSchool of Communication, Los Angeles, September 20-23, 2004.“The Ethics of Research with Human Stem Cells: Issues of Policy, Science, and Faith”at Seoul Symposium on Stem Cell Research, Seoul, Korea, September 1-2, 2004.“Freedoms, Duties, and Limits: The Ethics of Research in Human Stem Cells” at the International Conference on Stem Cells, Universidad Nacional Autonome de Mexico,Mexico City, Mexico, August 15, 2004.“Ethical Considerations in the Organization of Research in Pluripotent Cells,” Stem Cell Conference and Training for Investigators, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, August 2004.“Is the Future Fair? Basic Research and the Question of Social Justice,” University of California, San Diego Medical School lecture, San Diego, CA, July 15, 2004.“Is it Possible to Say When Human Life Begins – Can Ethical, Legal, and Biological Conceptions of the Human Embryo Converge?” Symposium in Embryonic Stem Cell Research, San Diego, CA, July 14, 2004. “The Ultimate Reality Show: Jewish Bioethics For a Changing World,” Annual HadassahNational Convention, Phoenix, AZ, July 12-13,2004.“May We Make the World: Ethics of Stem Cell Research,” Plenary Speaker, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Boston, MA, June 10-13, mencement Address to Biology Department Graduates, University of California,Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, May 21, 2004.“Firebell in the Night,” Seminar on Campus Anti-Semitism, sponsored by University ofIllinois, Chicago and the Chicago Jewish Federation, May 17, 2004.“Bioethics and Religious Traditions: Judaism.” University of Chicago, May 12, 2004.“Tales from the Front” in “The (Il)legitimacy of Israel: Ancient to Modern,” Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Northwestern University, May 10, 2004.“The Ethics of Basic Research: the Public, the Press and Faith Communities,” HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem, May 4, 2004.“Biotechnology and Ethics,” Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, April 21, 2004.“Stem Cell and Public Voice,” Chicago American Medical Association, April 20, 2004.“What is Quality of Life?” Plenary Speaker at Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics,February 2004.“Abortion and Ethics” for Genetics Counseling Program, Feinberg School of Medicine,February 26, 2004.Bioethicist’s Response to “Evidence of a Pluripotent Human Embryonic Stem Cell LineDerived from a Cloned Blastocyte,” American Association for the Advancement of Science National Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, February 12, 2004.Textual Study, Society for Jewish Ethics, Chicago, IL, January 2004.2003“Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: The Next Big Idea is Really Small,” respondent at public lecture series of the Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 2003.“The Care of Dying in America: The Ethics and Theology of Hair Dye, Botox, and Prozac,” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.“The Cousins Club: The Yearning for the Lost Tribes and the Use of Human Genetics to Find Them,” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.“Duties and Freedoms in Stem Cell Research,” Duquesne University Stem Cell Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 7-8, 2003.Scholar-in-Residence, Providence Hospital System, Portland, Oregon, November 3-5, 2003.“We Have Found the Book of Life: Genetics and Popular Science Films, 1950-1999, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2003.Clinical Ethics Workshop, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2003.“Seeing the Blackbird: The Ethics of Neuroscience,” Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Symposium, Lakeville, CN, October 10-12, 2003.“Ethical Considerations in the Organization of Research in Pluripotent Cells,” ColdSpring Harbor, NY, October 2003.Scholar-in-Residence, Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,September 17-18, 2003.“Religion and The New Reproductive Medicine,” Planned Parenthood, Bozeman, Montana,July 2003.“Conflicts of Interest in Medicine,” Annual NIH Ethics Course, July 2003.“Bioethics, Religion and Stem Cells,” 6th Annual Fred Hutchinson Bioethics Colloquium,July 2003.“Doubled in the Darkest Mirror: Practice and Retold Narrative of the Jewish Burial Society, June 2003. “Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” Keynote Speaker, International Society of Stem Cell Research, Seattle, Washington, June 2003.Scholar-in-Residence, Children’s Medical Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 2003.“Social, Ethical and Privacy Issues and Genetic Testing,” Silverstein Lecture for the Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, May 13-14, 2003.“Justice and Healthcare Reform,” Plenary Speaker at Mennonite National Meeting,March 2003.“Difficult Freedoms in Genetic Medicine,” Invited Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California, Irvine, February 2003.“Truth Telling and the Clinical Context,” University of California, Irvine, School ofMedicine, February 2003. “Anti-Semitism and the Academy ” International Meeting on Anti-Semitism, American Jewish Congress, February 2003.“Perfect Strangers,” Bresnahan Colloquium, Feinberg School of Medicine, NorthwesternUniversity, January 2003.“Firebell in the Night: Anti-Semitism on American Campuses,” Society for Jewish Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 10-12, 2003“Text Study,” Society for Jewish Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 10-12, 2003.2002“Ethics and Research,” DARPA Annual Lecture Series, Washington, DC, December 2002.National Human Genome Research Institute Retreat, November 2002. “Justice and Health Care Access,” Shearith Israel, San Francisco, California, November14, 2002.“Stem Cell Research Ethics,” DARPA Project on Human Tissue Engineering, Florida,October 2002.“A Fireball in the Night,” Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, California, October 2002Scholar in Residence, Annual Genetics Departmental Retreat, University of Washington,September 2002.“Israel on Campus,” Distinguished Lecturer, Jewish Studies Department, York University, September, 2002.“Must We Always Tell the Truth?” University of California, Los Angeles, August 2002.“Stem Cell Policy and Ethics,” Frontiers in Ethics Meeting, NIH ELSI Ten Year Planningand Review, Washington, D.C., July 2002.Chair, Bioethics and Worldview, NIH ELSI Ten Year Planning and Review, Washington,D.C., July 2002.“Liberty and Responsibility in Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia,” Liberty FundColloquium, Bozeman, Montana, May 30-June 2, 2002.“Healing in the Jewish Tradition,” Plenary Speaker at Duke University, Institute for Careat the End of Life and School of Theology, May 2002.“An Embarrassment of Riches: Health Care and Pediatric Medicine Series,” DistinguishedLectureship and Scholar-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2002.“Freedoms, Duties and Responsibilities in Stem Cell Research,” Northwestern University,Center for Genetic Medicine Annual Lectureship, April 2002.“Justice in Health Care,” National Conference on Health Care Justice, GeorgetownUniversity, Washington DC, April 2002.“Ethics and Stem Cell Research,” National Press Club, Washington DC, March 2002.“History of Anti-Semitism,” Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, March 2002.“Justice and Access,” Plenary Speaker at National Coalition on Jewish Bioethics, NewYork, NY, February 2002.2001:“Who An I?: Identity and the Human Genome,” the Becoming Human Conference,the AAAS and The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, November 2001.“Introduction to Clinical Ethics,” Preconference Workshop with Susan Rubin, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 2000.“The Ethics of Stem Cells,” invited speaker with Bridget Hogan, Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN, October 2001.“Women and Genetics,” University Women’s Studies Lecture Series, San Francisco StateUniversity, October 2001.“A Perspective on Stem Cells,” Women in Business, San Francisco, CA, October 2001.“Ethics and Genetics,” Scholar-in-Residence, Congregation Rodef Shalom, Marin, CA, October 2001.“A Jewish View of Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning,” Plenary Respondent, California State Commission on Cloning and the Markkula Center for Ethics,Santa Clara University, October 2001.“Conflict of Interest in University Research,” Keynote, University of California, Chancellor’s Office Statewide Academic Research Committees on Conflictof Interest in Research Annual Meeting, October 2001.CBS Religion and Science Panel on Stem Cells, September 7, 2001.“Ethics of Clinical Trials,” Genentech, April, August, and September 2001.“Ethics and Stem Cells,” Scholar-in-Residence, Congregation Beth Israel, Berkeley, CAAugust 2001.“The DNA Files,” National Public Radio, July 2001.“Ethics and Stem Cells,” Plenary Speaking, The International Teratology Annual Meeting,Montreal, June 2001.“Identity after the Genome,” Bioethics Lecture Series, Stanford University, June 2001.“Reasonable Magic: Ethics and Responsibilities in Stem Cell Research,” The FranckLecture, Georgetown University, June 2001. “The Ethics of Space Exploration,” the NASA 40th Birthday Commemoration PlenaryLecture, the NASA Division of History, George Washington University, May 2001. Invited Scholar, College of Health and Human Services, Northeastern University, May 2001.“Philosophic Questions on the Future of Genetics,” Panelist, Division of Ethics and History of Medicine, Harvard University, May 2001.“Leaving and Taking,” Phi Beta Kappa Keynote Address, San Francisco State University, May2001.“Voices of the Rescuers Project,” with Deborah Lipstadt, San Francisco, CA, April 2001.“Jewish Heal Care Ethics and Justice,” Park Ridge Center, Chicago, IL, April 2001.Keynote Address, Ethics and Nursing Annual Conference, University of California, LosAngeles, March 2001.“Perfect Strangers: The Ethics of Cloning and Jewish Thought,” Benjamin FreedmanMemorial Lecture, Montreal, March 2001.“Women and Evil,” National Conference on Jewish Feminist Philosophy, Arizona StateUniversity, Phoenix, AZ, February 2001.Scholar-in-Residence, Congregation Beth Am, Saratoga, CA, February 2001.“Science, Religion, and the Ethics of the New Genetics,” Center for Theology and theNatural Sciences and AAAS, San Francisco, CA, February 2001.“Conflicts of Interest in Research,” Bresnahan Lecture, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, February 2001.“The Sermon on the Mount Reconsidered,” Earle Lecture Panel, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, January 2001.2000:“Introduction to Clinical Ethics,” Preconference Workshop with Susan Rubin,American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, October 2000.Whitehead Institute and the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics, Boston,Massachusetts, May 2000.University of Virginia, Belief and Bioethics Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 2000.National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 2000.Silbert Lectureship Speaker: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, January 2000.1999:“Ethical Issues in Pediatrics,” Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford UniversityMedical Center, November 1999.“Faithful Justice: Jewish Ethics and The Discourse of Bioethics,” Plenary Speech, Conference on Religion and Ethics, Santa Clara University, November 1999.“Jewish Perspectives on Genetic Medicine,” 1st Annual Conference on Jewish MedicalEthics, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, San Francisco, October 1999.“Introduction to Clinical Ethics,” Preconference Workshop with Susan Rubin, AmericanSociety for Bioethics and Humanities, Houston, October 1999.“The Ethics of Managed Care,” East Bay Rotary Club, Berkeley, October 1999.“The Ethics of Pain,” Ethical Choices Conference, City of Hope National Medical Center,September 1999.“Ethical Issues in Animal Research,” Tulerik Laboratories, San Francisco, California, September 1999.“Diversity, Culture, and Ethnicity, and the Ethics of Nursing Care,” Los Angeles Kaiser Joint Nursing-Management Seminar Series, with Susan Rubin, Los Angeles,California, June 1999.“The Ethics of Memory,” City Wide Jewish Community Study, Berkeley, California, June1999.“The Illness Pilgrimage,” 11th Annual Bioethics Summer Institute, Virginia, June 1999.“Perfect Strangers: Human Cloning from a Jewish Perspective,” The MeElmurry Ethics andSociety Lectureship, Andrews University, Michigan, April 1999.“Jewish Healing and Ethical Considerations,” Keynote, National Association of JewishChaplains Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, February 1999.Scholar-in-Residence, Bioethics Consortium, University of North Carolina, Charlotte,North Carolina, February 1999.(Prior lectures for 1987-1998 available on request)(detailed account of University teaching and administration available on request) ................
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