CHCE Ethics Experts:

Gerard Magill, Ph.D

Gerard Magill, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Executive Director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University (Health Sciences). Also, he is the Department Chair of the Center’s interdisciplinary PhD program in health care ethics. He has a secondary appointment as Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine (School of Medicine and University Hospital) and a secondary appointment as Professor of Health Administration in the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Edinburgh University in 1987. He has published many scholarly essays and several books, including, as editor: Discourse and Context (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993); Personality and Belief (Lanham, NJ: University of America Press, 1994); Values and Public Life, with Marie D. Hoff (Lanham, NJ: University of America Press, 1995); Abortion and Public Policy, with R. Randall Rainey (Omaha, Nebraska: University of Creighton Press, 1996), and Genetics and Ethics. An Interdisciplinary Study (St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University Press, 2004). He has been awarded over $6 million in grants and funded projects and he is an active member of 14 professional Associations. He has accrued 28 years teaching in graduate education. His research specialties include: the ethics of the human genome and stem cell research, health care ethics in the Catholic tradition, and organizational ethics in health care.

Program Ethics Experts:

Daniel Callahan, Ph.D

Daniel Callahan, Ph.D., is the Director of the International Program at The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York, and a Senior Fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1965. He has served on landmark commissions, including: the Advisory Committee on Scientific Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1991-92), Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1995 onwards), and the Gene Therapy President’s Commission, University of Pennsylvania (200). He has published many scholarly essays and books, including: The Research Imperative: What Price Better Health (University of California Press, 2003), The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2003), Promoting Healthy Behavior, ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2000), The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issue in Health Care Reform, ed. (Georgetown University Press, 1998), False Hopes (Simon & Schuster, 1998), The Troubled Dream: Living with Mortality (Simon & Schuster, 1993), What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (Simon & Schuster, 1990), and Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (Simon & Schuster, 1987).

Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D.

Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D., is the Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theological Ethics at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. She graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1972. She has served on landmark commissions, including the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects. She has published many scholarly essays and books, including: Genetics, Ethics, and Parenthood, ed. (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983), Professional Ethics: Power and Paradox (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985), Six Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics (Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub. House, 1986), Justice in an Unjust World: Foundations for a Christian Approach to Justice (Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub. House, 1987), Sex in the Parish, ed. with Ronald G. Barton (Louisville, KY: Westminster Press, 1991), Word, Worship, World, and Wonder: Reflections on Christian Living (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1997), The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, eds. with Suzanne Holland and Laurie Zoloth (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001), and Ethics And Spiritual Care: A Guide For Pastors, Chaplains, And Spiritual Directors, ed. with Joseph D. Driskall (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2000).

Eric J. Cassell, M.D., M.A.C.P.

Eric J. Cassell, M.D., M.A.C.P., is an Attending Physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, a Clinical Professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and he teaches Pain Fellows at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In 1954 he graduated with an M.D. degree from New York University College of Medicine from whom he also received the Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumnus Achievement Award in 2000. Currently, he is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He has served on landmark commissions, including the President’s Bioethics Advisory Commission (1997-2001). He has published many scholarly essays and books, including: The Healer's Art: A New Perspective on the Doctor-Patient Relationship (New York, NY: Lippincott; 1976; Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985), The Place of the Humanities in Medicine (New York, NY: The Hastings Center Publications, 1984), Changing Values in Medicine, ed. with Mark Siegler (Frederick, Md: University Publications of America, 1985), Talking With Patients: The Theory of Doctor Patient Communication, vol I (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985), Talking With Patients: Clinical Technique, vol II. (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985), The Nature of Suffering (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991), 2nd ed revised with 3 new chapters (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2003), and Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press/Milbank Memorial Fund, 1997).

Rebecca Dresser, Ph.D., J.D.

Rebecca Dresser, Ph.D., J.D., is the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in 1975 and with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979. She currently serves as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. She has published many scholarly essays, law review articles, and books, including: The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice, with F. Barbara Orlans, Tom L. Beauchamp, David B. Morton, John P. Gluck (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), and When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).