Lori B. Andrews, J.D., is a distinguished professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and Director of IIT’s Institute for Science, Law, and Technology (Chicago). Professor Andrews has been involved in setting policies for genetic technologies. She also has been an advisor on genetic and reproductive technology to Congress, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, and several foreign nations.

E. David Cook, Ph.D., is a Fellow and Chaplain of Green College, University of Oxford, the first Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning (Department of Philosophy) at Wheaton College, and Professor of Christian Ethics at Southern Seminary. His scholarship focuses on the medical ethical issues at the beginning and end of life, genetics, resource allocation, gerontology, research ethics, consent, and confidentiality.

Robert Cranston, M.D., is an Attending Physician and Head of the Division of Neurology at Carle Clinic and Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, and is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. He is currently a MacLean Center Ethics Fellow at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Deerfield, Illinois.

Susan Chandra Daniels, Ph.D . ’93, is a Health Scientist Administrator at the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Daniels completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at Brandeis University where her research focused on behavioral genetics and nervous system response to environmental chemicals.

Sharon A. (“Shari”) Falkenheimer, M.D., M.P.H., is President of Bioethics & Medicine, Inc., in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Falkenheimer is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association, an Academician in the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, and a founding member of the Christian Aeromedical Fellowship.

Robert Johnson, M.D., is a Thoracic Surgeon at the Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, New York. He has advocated throughout his career for patient’s rights and quality of health care. In 2004, Dr. Johnson ran for Congress in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.

Thomas Kennedy, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and editor of The Cresset: a Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana. Co-editor of From Christ to the World: Introductory Readings in Christian Ethics, he has written widely on issues in biomedical and political ethics.

Richard Kreider, Ph.D., FACSM, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health, Human Performance & Recreation, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. He also is Director of the Exercise & Sport Nutrition Laboratory and the Center for Exercise, Nutrition & Preventive Health Research at the university. Dr. Kreider writes extensively regarding sports nutrition and exercise.

Gilbert C. Meilaender, Ph.D., is the Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Theology at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana. He is the author of Body, Soul and Bioethics; Bioethics: A Primer for Christians; and The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. His book, Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life (Eerdmans, 2002), is a collection of sermons that reflect on love as a way of life. Dr. Meilaender was appointed to the President’s Council on Bioethics in 2002.

C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture at Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. Dr. Mitchell serves as a Senior Fellow with the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Bannockburn, Illinois). He is editor of the journal Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics.

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