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Names and backgrounds of council included:

 "For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 16, 2002

President Names Members of Bioethics Council
Statement by the Press Secretary

President Bush today named 17 leading scientists, doctors, ethicists,
social scientists,
lawyers, and theologians to serve on the President's Council on
Bioethics.  The Council
will be chaired by Dr. Leon Kass, a prominent bioethicist from the
University of Chicago
who was previously named.  ....

The Council will hold its first meeting on January 17-18, 2002, in
Washington, D.C.
Council members include:

Leon R. Kass, M.D.  Chair.
Addie Clark Harding Professor, College and the
Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and Hertog
Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute.  Professor Kass, a nationally renowned
bioethicist, has written extensively on  biology and human affairs.
 His works include Toward a More Natural Science (1984), The Hungry Soul
(1994), and The Ethics of Human Clonng (1998, with James Q. Wilson).

Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University
California San
Francisco.  Professor Blackburn, a distinguished cell biologist whose
research
is on chromosome telomere structure, holds a number of awards and prizes,
 including the California Scientist of the Year Award (1999) and
the American Association for Cancer Research-G.H.A. Clowes Memorial
Award (2000).  She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and
Sciences (1991) and a member of the Institute of Medicine (2000).  She
has
also served as President of the American Society for Cell Biology (1998).


Stephen Carter, J.D.
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale Law School.
 Professor Carter teaches constitutional law and law and religion.
His recent books include God's Name in Vain (2000), Civility (1998), and
Integrity (1996).

Rebecca Dresser, J.D., M.S.
Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law.

 Professor  Dresser has written extensively on bioethical issues, and she
serves
on the editorial boards of IRB: Ethics and Human Research and the
American
 Journal of Bioethics   Her book, When Science Offers Salvation: Patient
Advocacy and Research Ethics, was published last spring.

Daniel Foster, M.D.
 Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine and Chairman
of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical School.  Dr. Foster, whose research is in intermediary
metabolism, has received the Banting Medal, the Joslin Medal, the Tinsley
R.
Harrison Medal and the Robert H. Williams Distinguished Chair of Medicine

Award for his work.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.

Francis Fukuyama, Ph.D.
Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Paul H.
Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.  Professor
Fukuyama has
written widely on the human and political implications of modern
technological society.
His books include The End of History and the Last Man (1993), The Great
Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (2000),
 and a new book on biotechnology that will appear shortly.

Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
  Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College.
Professor Gazzaniga
conducts research on how the brain enables the mind.  He is a fellow of
the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Neurological
Association.  His publications include The New Cognitive Neurosciences
(2000) and
The Mind's Past (1998).

Robert P. George, J.D., D. Phil.
  McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University, and
Director of the
James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
 A lawyer and constitutional scholar, Professor George is the author of
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1995) and
 In Defense of Natural Law (1999).  He is a member of the editorial board
of the
American Journal of Jurisprudence and the board of directors
of the Philosophy Education Society.

Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, Ph.D.
 Ryan Family Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Georgetown
University.  Professor Gomez-Lobo specializes in Greek philosophy, Greek
historiography,
 the history of ethics, and contemporary natural law theory.  He is the
recipient of
several awards, including a research fellowship from the
Guggenheim Foundation. His latest book, Morality and the Human Goods,
will appear shortly.

Mary Ann Glendon, J.D., L.LM.
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University.  Professor Glendon
teaches
and writes on international human rights, comparative law, and
constitutional law issues.
 The National Law Journal named her one of the Fifty Most Influential
Women Lawyers
 in America in 1998.

William B. Hurlbut, M.D.
Consulting Professor in Human Biology, Stanford University.  Dr.
Hurlbut's main areas of
interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing
biotechnology and neuroscience, and the integration  of philosophy of
biology with theology.  Most recently, he has worked with the Center for
International Security and Cooperation on a project formulating policy on

Chemical and Biological Warfare and with NASA on projects in
astrobiology.

Charles Krauthammer, M.D.
National Columnist, The Washington Post.  Dr. Krauthammer, who received
his medical
degree from Harvard Medical School and practiced psychiatry at
Massachusetts General Hospital for several years, writes a nationally
syndicated editorial page column for The Washington Post Writers Group.
He won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.  He has
written many newspaper and magazine articles on bioethical topics,
including stem cell research, cloning, euthanasia, and assisted suicide.

William F. May, Ph.D.
Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics Emeritus, Southern Methodist
University.  Professor
May, a distinguished and widely respected medical ethicist, was until
last June head of the Maguire Center of Ethics at SMU.  He is also a
founding fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics.  His numerous books
include Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional
(2001) and The Physician's Covenant : Images of the Healer in Medical
Ethics (1983); and The Patient's Ordeal (1991).

Paul McHugh, M.D.
Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Department of
Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and
Psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Dr. McHugh, a
member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,
is currently Co-Chairman, Ethics Committee of the American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology.  He also serves on the board of The American
Scholar.   His writings include Genes, Brain, and Behavior (1990) and
essays on assisted  suicide and the misuse of psychiatry.

Gilbert Meilaender, Ph.D.
 Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso
University.  Professor Meilaender is an editor for the Journal of
Religious Ethics and the Religious Studies Review .  He takes a special
interest in bioethics and is a Fellow of the Hastings Center.  His books
include Body, Soul, and Bioethics (1995) and Bioethics: A Primer for
Christians (1997).

Janet D. Rowley, M.D., D.Sc.
Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular
Genetics and Cell
Biology, and Human Genetics, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of
Chicago.  Dr. Rowely is internationally renowned for her studies of
chromosome abnormalities in human leukemia and lymphoma.  She is the
recipient of   the National Medal of Science (1999) and the Albert Lasker
Clinical Medicine Research Prize (1998), the most
distinguished American honor for clinical medical research.

Michael J. Sandel, Ph.D.
  Professor of Government, Harvard University. Professor Sandel, who was
a Rhodes
Scholar, teaches contemporary political philosophy and the history of
political thought.  Sandel's books include Democracy's Discontent:
America In Search of a Public Philosophy (1996) and Liberalism and the
Limits of Justice (1982).  He has received fellowships from the Ford
Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National
Endowment for the Humanities.

James Q. Wilson, Ph.D.
The James A. Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy Emeritus
at the University
of California Los Angeles. Professor Wilson, one of the nation's most
respected political scientists, has written  extensively on human nature
and ethics.  His publications include The Moral Sense (1997) and Moral
Judgement:   Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? (1998).

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