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Thomas Murray

Thomas H. Murray is President of The Hastings Center. Dr. Murray was formerly the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics. He is a founding editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review, and is on the editorial boards of The Hastings Center Report; Human Gene Therapy; Politics and the Life Sciences; Cloning, Science, and Policy; Medscape General Medicine; Teaching Ethics; Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. He served as President of the Society for Health and Human Values, and of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Murray has testified before many Congressional committees, and is the author of more than 200 publications. His most recent books are The Worth of a Child, published by the University of California Press, Healthcare Ethics and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies, Blackwell Publishers, which he edited with Bill Fulford and Donna Dickenson and The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals and Policy Makers, which he edited with Carol Levine. He is also editor, with Maxwell J. Mehlman, of the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). In January 2004 he received an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from Uppsala University.

Current committee service includes

• Ethics Committee of HUGO, the Human Genome Organization
• NIH Blue Ribbon Panel on Conflict of Interest
• Center for Strategic & International Studies' Council on Biotechnology Research, Innovation and Public Policy
• Advisory Committee for the Genomics Institute at the Wadsworth Center
• Affiliated Scholar of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee
• Board of Directors of Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy
• Chair, Ethical Issues Review Panel, World Anti-Doping Agency

Past committee service includes :

• Presidential appointment to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission from 1996-2001, chair of the subcommittee on genetics
• US Olympic Committee's Anti-Doping Committee
• Ethics and Education Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency
• Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Former Chair, Social Issues Committee of the American Society for Human Genetics.
• Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues to the National Human Genome Research Institute; Chair, the Task Force on Genetics and Insurance
• Co-chair, Panel on NIH Research on Anti-Social, Aggressive and Violence-Related Behaviors and Their Consequences
• NIH Director's Working Group on Oversight of Gene Therapy Research
• Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force on Conflicts of Interest
• NIH Human Embryo Research Panel

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